Everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If you could please find your seats
and grab your song book.
And we'll turn in our hymnals to song number 19,
There is a Fountain.
Song number 19, There is a Fountain.
Sing it out nice and loud.
Song one, nine, There is a Fountain.
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 though while as he wash all my sins
away wash all my sins away wash all my sins away
and there may I though while as he wash all my sins away dear dying lamb thy
precious blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed Church of
God be safe to sin no more be safe to sin no more be safe to sin no more till
all the ransomed Church of God be safe to sin no more ever 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 portless spring-stem ring tongue lies
silent in the grave lies silent in the grave lies silent in the grave when this
portless being staring tongue lies silent in the grave good singing let's
open up in a word of prayer Heavenly Father thank you for this day and thank
you for our congregation here I pray that you bless every person here and
also those that couldn't make it I pray that you bless the service help us just
to sing out from our hearts and worship you I just pray that you bless the
preaching as well in Jesus name we pray amen all right for our second song we'll
go to song 343 revive us again 343 revive us again three four three revive
us again
we praise thee O God for the son of thy love for Jesus who died and is now gone
above hallelujah thine the glory hallelujah amen hallelujah thine the
glory revive us again we praise thee O God for thy spirit of light who has
shown us our Savior and scattered our night hallelujah thine the glory
hallelujah amen hallelujah thine the glory revive us again all glory and
praise to the lamb that was slain who has borne all of our sins and has
cleansed every stain hallelujah thine the glory hallelujah amen hallelujah
thine the glory revive us again revive us again fill each heart with thy love
may each soul be rekindled with fire from above hallelujah thine the glory
hallelujah amen hallelujah thine the glory revive us again
good evening thank you so much for coming to steadfast Baptist Church if
you need a bulletin lift your hand nice and high and one of our ushers would
love to come by and get you a bulletin on the inside we have our soul winning
times as well as our service times our church stats is there any soul winning
numbers that need to be reported that forgot to be reported to the captain
does anybody have anything my chance okay keep up the good work on our soul
winning and on our baptisms as well we also have our list of expecting ladies
continue to pray for them we do have good news the Ellie's actually has been
converted into a birth and so congratulations to them I I don't have
the stats on my phone I need I need the stats if someone can text me before oh
what are the stats Sylvia Brooke seven pound nine ounces 20 inches long awesome
congratulations to the Ellie's and I think he sent it via Facebook and I just
don't have the app so sorry but congratulations to them and that's very
exciting for those per requests to turn into babies and also we have other per
requests that we go over on our Wednesday night services so we have the
niguiras continue to pray for their health continue to pray for miss Lucy's
mother brother Cameron Hall miss Ashley holders husband's visa for the Matt
Pendleton's brain cancer miss Zermanos friend Cody and Isaac salvation for the
Juan Carrasco's baby Leilani kidneys health hey Sierra Ellie praise the Lord
that she that ended so and ended well also we have the Goodwins asking for
prayer for their brother-in-law's court case we have the Connelly's asking for
prayer for John and Earline bonds health also Alberto was asking for extra prayer
for his night shifts that he's going to right now also if we've been prayer for
the car for the Cardona's for their son Benjamin he's been in the hospital and
having some serious health issues also brother Tony had asked if we would pray
for his friend Carlos Gutierrez I believe is this the Carlos is down south
yeah so he's a good guy he's gone so wanting with us a lot of times and
really good friend of our of our church so we'll definitely have him in our
prayers we'll go ahead and say another word of prayer as a church family for
those that were mentioned Thank You Heavenly Father for this evening for
giving us this opportunity to be gathered I pray that you would just
bless all the expecting ladies and their pregnancies help them with their
children's development I pray that you would bless our church family struggling
with various health concerns that you could just give them strength please
father give them favor please give them healing I pray that you would also
encourage them that they would have a renewed sense of joy and peace during
their affliction I pray that you would also just help our other various family
and friends salvations and travel requests and business situations I pray
that you just help them and give them favor and we just thank you for giving
us this opportunity to come here I pray that we would just continue to have zeal
to serve you in Jesus name we pray amen on the back we have a couple of upcoming
events our street point Louisiana marathon a really exciting event I
highly encourage you to participate if you can and immediately following after
you get all that good soul winning in then you want to get a lot of good soul
winning I should just ask Matt he's I don't even notice he's here he's got all
the stats all right praise the Lord he's got all the kids with them too we
have Sundays Sunday yeah right so we get Sundays again and they went really well
this this last time everybody seemed to get a Sunday and it was a lot of fun and
we had a big crowd I noticed that the the Sunday after the Sunday Sunday was
not as happening but you know what we were still here and we still went so
winning and you can still go so winning without getting rewarded physically
because you get rewarded spiritually in heaven all right so just putting that
out there but you know what even if I only see you on the Sunday Sundays I'm
glad I saw you okay also October 6th through the 8th is our heritage of the
Lord conference it's gonna be a lot of fun we're gonna have a couple guests
with us pastor Jimenez and pastor Mejia who are excellent preachers you
definitely want to try and be out here we're gonna have some special events for
the kiddos we're gonna be doing fun things kid songs for the songs we're
gonna be doing some sword drills we're gonna have ice cream and stuff on
Thursday on Friday we're gonna have pizza after the service Saturday we have
our spelling bee and I've been working on this I'm almost done essentially it's
gonna be a lot of the same words from last year if not almost all of them and
then just a bunch of extra words on top of it so you'll have a lot of stuff to
work on and there's no guarantee what words you're gonna get but if you know
them all hey if you know every word in the King James Bible you're gonna be you
know hot the trot for our conference for the spelling bee but it's difficult
there's some difficult words in there so and some names right Nebuchadnezzar or
something like that right Myler Shella hash baths right now so but and I'm
excited we got a new and we got a new announcer this year brother Suhail's
gonna be doing or announcing for us so I'm excited about this and he's
volunteered and we're gonna have some other kids events on Saturday I'll still
be preaching on Sunday and but I'm really excited about our conference
hopefully we'll get our invitations in pretty soon and you can hand those out
again I want you to be purposeful about your handing those out so actual
physical interactions not just leaving them wherever but please do invite any
and all family members friends cousins uncles aunts nieces nephews everything
in between right and I don't know we'll fit in here but we'll make it work
somehow we can theoretically put like over 370 people in this building which
is so funny because the fire could it's like it's always way more than you could
even physically do but I don't know how you could ever do that but we're gonna
shove them in here right also we have the Arlington soul-winning blitz October
29th so and I've been telling everybody's been telling me the Arlington
soul-winning is just it's where it's at a lot of salvation a lot of people very
receptive so if you feel like you haven't seen some good soul-winning in a
while maybe hit up the Saturday time in Arlington it's been really fruitful a
lot of people go so it's really easy and I think they even give you donuts and
stuff apparently I need to be throwing these things out there donuts coffee
food okay so I think they're they're showering you with blessings all right
also November 5th is our music recital so what kids have already decided like
I think I'm gonna play I'm excited about this okay so it looks like we
definitely have some participation I think there's gonna be a lot of kids in
it and I'm pretty excited about the recital also November 10th 11th and 12th
is our Matamoros trip so we'll be going down there and so man we're just we're
gonna be hitting up a lot of soul winning and really excited about it also
hopefully near the end of the year or the beginning of next year we'll have
our King James Bible documentary finished so we can watch some of that
maybe maybe we'll give you a sneak preview at our conference maybe not I
don't know but I'm pretty excited about it oh is this these already in all right
so that was fast hey we got these nice-looking flyers for our conference
and they got a lot of the details on there they got some pictures of the
pastors and everything like that so you can hand these out and they look really
nice so that's pretty much all I have for announcements we'll go ahead and go
to our third song which I don't know 209 grace greater than our sin 209 grace
greater than our sin I'm sorry 208 208 grace greater than our sin
Oh
marvelous grace of our loving Lord praise that exceeds our sin and our
guilt yonder on Calvary's mount outpour there where the blood of the lamb was
built grace grace God's grace grace that will pardon and cleanse within
grace grace God's grace grace that is greater than all our sin sin and despair
like the sea waves cold threaten the soul with infinite loss
grace that is greater yes grace untold points to the refuge the mighty cross
grace grace God's grace grace that will pardon and cleanse within
grace grace God's grace grace that is greater than all our sin dark is the
stain that we cannot hide what can avail to wash it away look there is flowing a
crimson tide wider than snow you may be today grace grace God's grace grace that
will pardon and cleanse within grace grace God's grace grace that is greater
than all our sin marvelous infinite matchless grace freely bestowed on all
who believe you that are longing to see his face will you this moment his grace
receive grace grace God's grace grace that will pardon and cleanse within
grace grace God's grace grace that is greater than all our sin
while the offering plates are passed around turning your Bibles to 2nd Samuel
chapter 19 2nd Samuel chapter 19 and as is our custom we're gonna read the whole
chapter you can follow along silently starting in verse 1 2nd Samuel chapter
19 the Bible reads and it was told Joab behold the king weepeth and mourneth for
Absalom and the victory that day was turned into morning unto all the people
but the people heard say that day how the king was greed for his son and the
people got them by stealth that day into the city as people being ashamed steal
away when they flee in battle but the king covered his face and the king cried
with a loud voice oh my son Absalom Oh Absalom my son my son and Joab came into
the house to the king and said thou has shamed this day the faces of all thy
servants which this day have saved thy life and the lives of thy sons and of
thy daughters and the lives of thy wives and the lives of thy concubines and that
thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy friends for thou has declared this day
that thou regardest neither princes nor servants for this day I perceive that if
Absalom had lived and all we had died this day then it had pleased thee well
now therefore arise go forth and speak comfortably unto thy servants for I
swear by the Lord if thou go not forth there will not tarry one with thee this
night and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from
thy youth until now then the king arose and sat in the gate and they told unto
all the people saying behold the king doth sit in the gate and all the people
came before the king for Israel had fled every man to his tent and all the people
were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel saying the king saved us out
of the hand of our enemies and he delivered us out of the hand of the
Philistines and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom and Absalom whom we
appointed over us is dead in battle now therefore why speak ye not a word of
bringing the king back and King David sent to Zadok into Abiathar the priest
saying speak unto the elders of Judah saying why are you the last to bring the
king back to his house seeing the speech of all Israel has come to the king even
to his house ye are my brethren ye are my bones and my flesh wherefore then are
ye the last to bring back the king and you say to Amasa art thou not of my bone
out of my flesh God do so to me and more also without be not captain of the host
before me continually in the room of Joab and he bowed the heart of all the
men of Judah even as the heart of one man so that they sent this word unto the
king return thou and all thy servants so the king returned and came to Jordan and
Judah came to Gilgal to go to meet the king to conduct the king over Jordan and
Shimei the son of Gira Benjamite which was a Bahuram hasted and came down with
the men of Judah to meet King David and there were a thousand men of Benjamin
with him and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul at his 15 sons at his 20
servants with him and they went over Jordan before the king and they went
over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household and to do what he
thought good and Shimei the son of Gira fell down before the king as he was come
over Jordan and said unto the king let not my Lord impute iniquity unto me
neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my
Lord the king went out of Jerusalem that the king should take it to his heart for
thy servant doth know that I have sinned therefore behold I am come the first this
day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my Lord the king but
Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said shall not Shimei be put to death
for this because he cursed the Lord's anointed and David said what have I to
do with you ye sons of Zeruiah that you should this day be adversaries unto me
shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel for did not I know
that I am this day king over Israel therefore the king said unto Shimei
thou shalt not die and the king swear unto him and Mephibosheth the son of Saul
came down to meet the king and had neither dressed his feet nor trimmed his
beard nor washed his clothes from the day the king departed until the day he
came again in peace and it came to pass when he was come to Jerusalem to meet
the king but the king sent it to him wherefore when does not thou with me
Mephibosheth and he answered my lord o king my servant deceived me for thy
servant said I will saddle me and ask that I may ride there on and go to the
king because thy servant is lame and he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord
the king but my lord the king is as an angel of God do therefore what is good
in thine eyes for all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord
the king yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own
table what right therefore have I yet to cry any more under the king and the king
said unto him why speakest thou any more of thy matters I have said thou and
Ziba divide the land and Mephibosheth said unto the king yay let him take all
for as much as my lord the king has come again in peace unto his own house and
Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogalim and went over Jordan with the
king to conduct him over Jordan now Barzillai was a very aged man even
fourscore years old and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at
Mahanaim for he was a very great man and the king said unto Barzillai come thou
over with me and I will feed thee with me in Jerusalem and Barzillai said unto
the king how long have I to live that I should go up with the king unto
Jerusalem I am this day fourscore years old and can I discern between good and
evil can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink can I hear any more the
voice of singing men and singing women wherefore then should thy servant be yet
a burden unto my lord the king thy servant will go a little way over Jordan
with the king and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward let
thy servant I pray thee turn back again that I may die in mine own city and be
buried by the grave of my father and of my mother but behold thy servant Kim Ham
let him go over with my lord the king and due to him what shall seem good
unto thee and the king answered Kim Ham shall go over with me and I will do to
him that which shall seem good unto thee and whatsoever thou shalt require of me
that will I do for thee and all the people went over Jordan and when the
king was come over the king kissed Barzillai and blessed him and he
returned out of his own place then the king went on to Gilgal and Kim Ham went
on with him and all the people of Judah conducted the king and also half the
people of Israel and behold all the men of Israel came to the king and said
unto the king why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away and have
brought the king in his household and all David's men with him over Jordan and
all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel because the king is near of kin
to us wherefore then be he angry for this matter have we eaten at all of the
Kings cost or hath he given us any gift and the men of Israel answered the men
of Judah and said we have ten parts in the king and we have also more right and
David than ye why then did you despise us that our advice should not be first
had in bringing back our King and the words of the men of Judah were fiercer
than the words of the men of Israel fire heads forward a prayer father God we
thank you for 2nd Samuel chapter 19 and Lord for the opportunity we have this
evening to learn more about it I pray that you fill Pastor Shelley with your
spirit and give him clarity of mind as he expounds the chapter to us and also
minimize distractions in the sanctuary so we can learn as much as possible
about your word and be with us as we go our separate ways after the service in
Jesus name I pray amen man second same of chapter 19 Absalom's dead we don't
have to worry about him anymore I'm kidding verse 1 the Bible says and it
was told Joe I'd be old the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom and the victory
that day was turned into mourning and to all the people for the people heard say
that day how the king was grieved for his son the people got them by stealth
that day in the city as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in
battle the king covered his face and the king cried a loud voice oh my son
Absalom Oh Absalom my son my son job came to the house to the king and said thou
shamed this day the faces of all thy servants which this day have saved thy
life and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters and the lives of thy wives
and the lives of thy concubines and that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy
friends for thou has declared this day that thou regardest neither princes nor
servants for this day I perceive that if Absalom had lived and all we had died
this day then it pleased thee well now we start the story with David having
received the news of his son Absalom being killed in battle and David did
make it clear unto all of his military personnel to handle Absalom with
gentleness or be gentle for his sake and and to try not to kill Absalom that was
the intended goal David did not want Absalom to have to die so it's not
bizarre to me that if David didn't want to die and then he dies that he has a
negative reaction that he's upset about it he mourns for his son and even though
his son was wicked even though his son did evil it still grieves him in his
heart and I think that sometimes even parents have to realize or other people
have to realize about individuals that have a bad son it's not like you're not
going to feel sad about it and I think that some people would think like oh my
son's really wicked so I want nothing to do with them and I have no emotional
attachment to them that's probably unrealistic you're going to have
feelings toward your family and your friends regardless of how bad or how
evil or how wicked they are even God has positive feelings towards evil people in
the sense that many people that get unsaved that just don't get saved
God loved them for the majority of their life even the rich young ruler comes
unto Jesus it says when Jesus be held him he loved him so obviously has
positive feelings towards this individual even though the individual
didn't get saved the individual disrespected him and the individual
probably died and went to hell we know that Jesus truly did love him and had
positive feelings towards him and it's hard to just turn those off you know
even Jesus Christ going and seeing Jerusalem he's weeping for the city
bemoaning the fact that it's going to be destroyed and it makes him very upset
whenever they crucified him to the cross he's still looking at the masses and
saying father forgive them for they know not what they do and I can see that
David is generally just giving his son the benefit of the doubt you know I
don't know maybe absalom saved it's uncertain in my mind exactly what
absalom if he's saved or unsaved he does represent a lot of bad people in the
Bible but so does other good people that are saved or bad people that are saved I
mean that's not always a proof text of the fact that someone is in and of
themselves wicked or unsaved you know I believe Aab pictures Christ dying when
he dies in his chariot yet Aab is a super wicked King but I believe Aab is saved
and so you have all kinds of things you have parables by Jesus own mouth talking
about an unjust judge and that person is representative of God the Father so you
kind of have a lot of overlap when it comes to parables and parallels and a
lot of this spiritual picturing that you can't really be certain it's likely that
absalom was even saved and him being saved he why would a father not be sad
and his son dying regardless of his actions regardless of the fact that he
did all this evil so I don't really see from David's perspective why it's so
wrong that he's mourning for his son per se however it is interesting that when
David had a son with Bathsheba the moment it died he actually stopped
mourning and washed himself and was actually fine and just moved on with his
life whereas we see with Absalom he's not moving on with his life right away
and I think that you know there is something to be said when you're a
leader especially the king and a tumultuous situation it is important
that you don't just basically fall into self-pity and wallowing and just you're
just this you can't be helped because everyone's relying on you for leadership
relying upon you for strength and so you have to set a strong example you have to
be there for others and you have to be tough and difficult times for other
people not even necessarily yourself and this just goes in general I think
that sometimes and I'm not trying to be mean but I'm just saying like sometimes
women or men they can lose someone very precious to them and instead of focusing
on all the people they still have in their life they kind of just wallow in
self-pity and whoa for the child they don't have or the family member that
they don't have and it's it's appropriate to mourn for the loss of a
child for a father for mother for sister for a spouse I mean we all need to mourn
for these people but at the end of the day sometimes you have to move on you
have to just go to the next stage you know a lot of women especially in our
church because they don't kill all their children through birth control often
will experience a miscarriage in their life they'll go through a period where
they had they had they got pregnant they had a miscarriage and you know that's
devastating that's difficult and that's frustrating and I can't imagine all the
emotions you know women can control their emotions naturally speaking
because when you get pregnant a lot of hormones get released even if it through
miscarriage you can still go through a PTSD you know well you know or whatever
whatever you want to call it basically just anything related to postpartum type
of a scenario where you're going through difficult experiences and I'm not trying
to belittle your feelings or say that those feelings aren't justified but what
I am saying is that you want to also be careful that you still move on and
you're still strong for the people that are relying upon you you know you still
have other children you have a spouse you have a church you have other
family you know we have to figure a way to pick ourselves up and move on and we
don't want to have jobs wife's attitude just curse God and die you know I mean
what if job had done that there's 10 children that would have never even been
born in the world because the Bible teaches that job had 10 more children
later I guarantee that those children are very thankful that job eventually
got over it and him and his wife had more children because they exist as a
result of that you know even myself included my mom had a miscarriage after
her first child so she had my sister and then she had a miscarriage but then she
had my brother and then like eternity later they had me but I'm so glad that
my parents after that you know obviously traumatizing devastating period didn't
decide well I don't have any more kids now because I could lose one or I could
have something negative you know you want to continue with life and move on
and I think that's what Joe is trying to get out when he talked to David here
because Joe is is basically rebuking David in a sense now here's the thing
though just because someone's right doesn't mean the way they handled it was
right and and another thing about Joe is he's a very exaggerated person I mean
think about the statement that he says here in verse number six he says for
thou has declared this day that regardless neither princes nor servants
for this day I perceive that if Adam had lived and all we had died this day then
it pleased thee well now here's the thing being sad that Absalom is dead
does not mean you would rather trade everyone else for his for his death
right it's not like if I'm sad that one child died I wish I could just have all
the other children die and keep the one just because I'm sad for the one you can
have both of these emotions you can still be pleased that your servants are
alive and then be sad for your son all at the same time it's kind of bizarre to
suggest to David that he shouldn't even be sad about his son dying or that his
commandment was literally violated and who is it that violated the commandment
Joab Joab is the one that even killed Absalom so it it's it's kind of obvious
why Joab is not even being sensitive here Joab has no empathy Joab wants them
to move on why do you think Joab wants him to move on because he doesn't want
David to be like you know what who killed Absalom I want to figure out you
know jobs and you're like let's move on let's go you know let's let's go to the
next task or whatever we don't want to Terry or whatever so you don't get
necessarily we don't always know exactly why everybody's doing the things that
they're doing but I did not perceive that Joab really cares about David and
all these other situations he simply wants people to move on he's worried
about an investigation into Absalom and who truly killed him and what's going on
there you know Joab has some some dirty hands here in this situation and so he's
giving David his advice now of course the job is very smart so he's gonna give
advice that fits with the situation and it is true that David has shamed his
servants in a sense because his servants are now kind of embarrassed they don't
want to go back to the camp so they're actually going back into the city as the
Bible describes it they're not going where David was high on the other side
of the river on this side of Jordan they're just going straight into town
just kind of like well I don't want to I don't want to stick around and see what
happens or I don't want to see how upset Dave is going to be that we killed
the son when he told us not to kill his son and you know that's the right
reaction if you violate your leaders commandment or instruction you know you
should be embarrassed or a little bit ashamed to be then confronted with them
even though you got the task done even though you got the job done if you
didn't do it right it could be still kind of a negative experience a negative
situation and so Joab is now telling David in verse 7 now therefore rise go
forth and speak comfortably under thy servants for I swear by the Lord if thou
go not forth there will not tarry one with thee this night and that will be
worse under thee than all the evil that befell thee from by youth until now now
is that really true what about ithra you know and some of these other men that
said like I'll never leave you are we really to believe that literally no one
would have stayed with David I get I believe that job is being very
exaggerative here over the top and kind of even projecting what's in his own
heart
job as no problem leaving David high and dry or kicking him to the curb and we
know that only not only but specifically later job is gonna basically kick David
to the side side up with at a night job so we can already see the writing on the
wall of Joab is not willing to be a friend of the David when he's in the low
parts of his life jobs kind of a positive only friend you have certain
friends in your life that only really want to hang out with you when you're
taking about the dinner when you're winning you know but when everyone hates
you and the news hate you and people are mad at you and negative things are
happening you know they want to visit you in the hospital they want to visit
you at whatever stakeout back right it's like hey will you go with me to the
hospital it's like what about outback yeah I'm free you know it's like that's
the type of friend job is the kind of guy you know he just lost his son why
can't you show a little compassion your job didn't even show any compassion in
the statement whatsoever
none and and Joab really is a very deceitful person and I believe that in
this chapter David even picks up on that David already picked up on this and kind
of notice that jobs not really the right guy to kind of be a second in command
be a general but as we get a little bit further in we'll kind of we'll kind of
learn more about this but it says in verse eight then the king arose and
at the gate and they told and all the people saying behold the kingdom of the
gate and all the people came before the king for Israel had fled every man to
his tent and all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of
Israel saying the king saved us out of the hand of our enemies and he delivered
us out of the hand of the Philistines and now he is fled out of the land for
Absalom and Absalom and we anointed over us is dead in battle now therefore why
speaking not a word of bringing the king back so David gets in the end of the
gate of their camp wherever they're at he's he's talking them in and they're
like why have we brought this guy back what what are we doing here we need we
need to get this guy back with us you know this is our guy this is our king
you know our last guy that we anointed over ourselves was bozo Absalom he he
died real quick you know he's like Achilles or something you know just so
quick just taken out like that and so they want to bring back David I also
like just this comment whom we anointed over us because history always finds a
way to write all the lies of the past when you think about it the people that
were like really wicked in in history and through the past in the moment in
the time they have all this propaganda machine they have a lot of people they're
kind of on their side they have everyone chanting the Emperor's wearing you know
these great clothes when he's wearing none but after time does its deal after
we basically go through those centuries those decades eventually it ends up
getting revealed and we all see the bows over the bows of that he was and no one
ends up thinking this is a great person people like Hitler you know Hitler had
his heyday he had a shining moment in the sun where in Germany people are really
worshipping him people are really on his side he has a lot of support but as we
all look back in history I mean is there really a lot of people championing
Hitler anymore I mean this is a few and far between person that would even say
anything positive about Hitler let alone worship the guy anymore now of course I'm
not saying that those people don't exist they do but they're they're in the small
minority they're freaks and weirdos okay and you know anybody Joseph Stalin I
mean nobody's looking back and all this guy was such a great guy Mao Zedong you
know any of these guys pull pot these guys that may have been worshiped at a
point in time people may have liked them it eventually comes out all this guy's
wicked you know Nixon Richard Nixon with Watergate and all this stuff it
eventually comes out this guy's a wicked president and let me tell you something
there will be a time in history when everybody looks down upon Joe Biden and
there is this nope there's no propaganda machine propping him up and everyone
will literally dump on this guy it will be everyone it will be CNN it will be
MSNBC it will be every leftist it'll be every celebrity it'll be they will all
turn on Joe Biden and they will all say what an idiot he was and a lot of his
life will probably be exposed and a lot of the dumb things that happen why
because God makes sure that your name goes to trash when you were a trash
person why do you think it is that the majority of people name their children
after people in the Bible and that the names that are wicked evil people nobody
names their kids that I mean who's naming their kid shimmy I who's naming
their kid when's the last time you met an Absalom or you met a Judas or you met
you know the only people that have these names are celebrities that worship the
devil and change their name to it but it's not even the real name you have a
lot of people in Hollywood these other weirdos and freaks that'll change their
name the bizarre names like this just to try and show how satanic they are but
you know if you were out just running and knocking on doors it would throw you
for a loop you're like oh hey how's it going mr. what's your name Judas oh okay
bye it's like that would be weird right Lucifer this is like whoa you know
what's going on with this guy's name you know I think I met one time a person
in Kane okay so that you know and you got stupid restaurants like raising
can't know it's like can you have at least any sauce other than your sauce I
get that you want to only have chicken but why can't you have gravy or barbecue
sauce or just something it's like do you want cane sauce or cane sauce it's like
no I want gravy you know and they have good chicken but it's like give me some
gravy with that right that was a rant you're welcome maybe someone there will
listen okay but you know it of course who even knows where that name came from
raising canes does anybody even know it's the name of a dog okay okay folks
so the weird name came from a dog let's not let's not get too excited about
cane you know citizen cane that's not us I mean we don't really these names have
shame on them for a reason and because absent was a bozo and he lifted himself
up and he put a pillar of himself and he tried to heat to himself the kingdom
what ends up happening these guys are like oh we actually are the one that set
him up you know he's self-ordained pastors and these self-ordained leaders
they'll eventually get exposed for who they are and everyone will see them as
the loser that they were the loser that they are and history as a has a way of
just correcting all the wrongs cuz cuz you can fake it for a while but
eventually everyone's secure loser eventually you know all the
televangelists they go out and they go have their pop and their flare and
everybody's excited and then pretty soon it's just like yeah they committed like
a bunch of scandals and got arrested and have like 14 wives and they're still on
TV you know what is the guy there's some guy like that what's the guy that like
went to jail for a long time for scamming people I think you have the
wife with the pink hair or something
Oh Jim Baker yeah yeah Jim Jimmy and Tammy Baker Tammy Faye Baker yeah so
this guy was like scamming people and just caught up in adultery and all kinds
of weird stuff went to jail for a long period of time and then when he gets out
of jail it's like oh I guess I better be a televangelist again it's like who
gives money to these people I don't get it I don't understand how that works
obviously people are kind of slow but what was the point that I'm making here
is that Absalom being a wicked person he didn't get away with it you will not get
away with being a wicked person your name will get come to mud essentially
when you decide to break God's commandments and be a wicked person and
try to glorify yourself everyone looks at you as a proverb and a byword now
let's keep reading here it says in verse number 11 and King David sent to Zadok
and to Abiath are the priests saying speak unto the elders of Judah saying
why are you the last to bring the king back to his house seeing the speech of
all Israel's come to the king even to his house
he's like getting mad of his priests for not wanting him to return everybody
else is wanting to return verse 12 you're my brethren you're my bones of my flesh
where for then are you the last to bring back the king and okay so I want to stop
there for a moment now I don't know exactly the significance of why it's the
priests or not but this is what I thought in general when you have an
opportunity to make things right or there's it's the beginning of a
situation where it's volatile there's a leadership change change just change in
general those who join first are going to be recognized by the leadership and
what I mean by that is especially when I took over this church there was a lot of
people that were just on board right away and then there were some people
that were not on board right away and then there's people in the middle but
just being honest the people that are on your side right away it makes a
difference you you look more favorably to those people and you think okay this
guy's got a lot of sound reasoning you know people that are sitting here
thinking like I don't know what fan and saying make sense you know like it's
like you're an idiot right people that are are slow to make decisions harken to
bad voices indecisive not willing to side with the right person right away
this shows us sometimes often something wrong with their heart it's like that's
why David is saying you're like why is everybody want me back and then you guys
are like the last to want me back is there something wrong here is there an
issue you know and so you got to be careful by being slow or not deliberate
in your decision-making you know if your boss at work wants you to implement some
new strategy or some new policy those who tackle it right away are going to be
noticed by the leadership whereas those that are last to implement it they're
resistant they they're not interested in doing it that's also going to be noticed
who's kind of taking the leadership well who's not taking leadership well who's
first to the action who's last to the action you know all of those things are
going to be noticed by leadership and by positions of authority and I believe
even God's the same way that God recognizes and notices the people that
are just always just ready to decide with God it's like I don't really care
what the issue is I don't care who I'm sacrificing on the altar I don't care
what I'm doing it's just like yes you got Elisha talking with the king of
Israel and it's like his parting words and he's like telling him to strike the
ground and he just like does it a couple times and he's like the seers wrath of
them the the priest is wrath of them the man of God's wrath of them because he's
like if he's telling him to smite the ground you might as well do it as hard
as you can and here's my thought processes I've always struggled with
that story because I'm thinking like how does he know to strike it six or
seven times right how did he know how would he have known that but here's what
he should have done as soon as the man of God said strike the ground he should
have struck it as hard as he possibly could as many times as he possibly could
until the man of God said stop
whereas it's just like well it's kind of you know it's like that just shows this
apathy a lack of zeal resistance of leadership resistance to obedience all
of these things show character flaws in a person and David's drawing that out
whereas those that are just always on board always ready to go ready to act
they're gonna do it the best they possibly can the first time these are
the the best type of people you know I like it that when Noah's told to build
an arc he never had to go back to God and say like how do I do this again I
mean don't you think that would be an intimidating task and have you had read
his list it's like make me an arc of gopher wood that was pretty explicit
wasn't it I mean this is like getting the instruction manual in Chinese you're
just like I got a picture that was all you know it's like I've got some better
figure it out but you know what I like men of God like Noah that get the job
done and they don't have to they don't have to wonder they're not last act
the first act you got a lot of men of God that are first act you know you want
to be the first disciple you want to be the first to see Jesus risen from the
dead you want to be the first to go out and preach I mean you want to be the
first not the last to do the things of God and David's kind of rebuking these
people like why is it that you don't want me to be the leader here what's the
problem but it shows that there's at least a problem now in verse 13 David
says and say you to a Mesa art thou not of my bone of my flesh God do so to me
and more also if they'll be not captain of those before me continually in the
room of Joab now this is funny to me because David's over here morning jobs
coming in here like hey if you don't get up there and start making decisions
everyone's gonna leave you all right I'll make some decisions a Mesa replace
Joab hey you like that decision how are them apples you know be careful what you
wish for now this is an interesting move by David why is he replacing Joab well
let's think about who a Mesa even is for a second keep your finger here the
page back chapter 17 and look at verse 25 now he said he was of his bone of his
flesh saying they're related how are they related second Samuel chapter 17
look at verse 25 and Absalom made a Mesa captain of those instead of Joab which
a Mesa was a man's son whose name was itra and Israelite that went into Abigail
the daughter of Neash sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother so according to the Bible
a Mesa is related to Joab now that's kind of interesting because Joab and
David are also related now I think it's first Chronicles chapter number two yep
well let me see if I can find it go to first Chronicles chapter number two for
a second yeah first Chronicles chapter number two I looked this up and I've
forgotten to write it down but it's first Chronicles chapter number two look
at verse number 12 and Boaz begat Obed now Boaz is the husband of Ruth Boaz
okay he begat Obed Obed begat Jesse and Jesse begat his first born of Liab and
Abinadab the second and Shema the third Nethanel the fourth Radai the fifth
Ozem the sixth David the seventh so David is born of Jesse and then it says
whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail and the sons of Zeruiah Abishai and Job
and as a hell three and Abigail bear a Mesa and the father of Mesa was Jeter
the Ishmaelite now it gives them a different name here in first Chronicles
chapter number two verse 17 that's because people have different names okay
same guy the way it's worded in second Samuel chapter number 17 it's unclear if
a mace is actually a son or a bastard though because it just simply says that
he went into Abigail I don't know perhaps he's a son or he's not but it's
also interesting that it's like hey this guy's sister or Abigail is sister to
Zeruiah why didn't say sister to David because they're all actually related
because it's actually David had two sisters at least Abigail and Zeruiah now
because they're related directly as far as siblings are concerned then their
children would be considered David's nephews and nieces so Joab was David's
nephew and what's interesting about a lot of these people when you realize it
David's cabinet and a lot of people in David's leadership are family they're
blood like it's a lot of different family members now that's good and bad
it's good in the sense that it's great when you have a family member that loves
the Lord but it's also bad because sometimes nepotism brings in bad people
and sometimes it puts people in positions of authority that shouldn't
really be there but that's life and really we see consistently in the Bible
in stories like this direct family members being your personal mortal
enemy and the New Testament Jesus brings up the same fact that hey your foes are
gonna be they have your own household you know you're gonna have mother against
father and you have mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and you're gonna
have these certain strides that exist I mean absolutely just tried to kill his
own father that's a pretty extreme dynamic so you would think like David's
like well you know maybe not all families good so Joab's a nephew a mace
is a nephew equivalent from a family perspective but haven't you noticed and
you've already seen at this point a lot of times Abishai or Joab will make a
comment and then Dave is just kind of like you sons of Zeruiah you know he's
just like he's kind of talking negative about I'm wondering if his sister
Zeruiah was just like a really revengeful chick you know he's just like
man this girl is out for blood you know this girl what kind of sons did this
chick raise you know why are you guys always so bloodthirsty what was it that
this mom it's that soccer mom you know that soccer mom that was out there and
you know when their kid gets the ball she's just like tackle him finish him
you know she's like drilling that into her children or something like that
probably it's like whoa lady you know it's it's it's eight-year-olds playing
soccer okay you know it's okay you know if they score a pointer once a
while or something right but obviously this lady was super harsh or something
she raised some children that are just bloodthirsty type people I think when
you read between the lines David for a while probably wanted to get rid of Joab
but Joab is a power-hungry deceiver and because of that he's always threatened
by losing his position so he always like kills the person threatening his
position previously already killed Abner now he had a good reason because he had
actually killed one of his other brothers however as a hill but at the
same time Abner was kind of threatening his position because Abner was the
general in a sense for the House of Saul and jobs kind of the general for the
House of David and you never know when things kind of meld who's gonna be who
now that's kind of a smart move from Davis perspective to for a couple
reasons number one if you want to get rid of Joab this is your opportunity
number two bringing in the general from the other side is going to kind of help
meld things kind of help everybody bring people together when you kind of appoint
this person in this position of authority perhaps David perceives that
a mace is a better person than job and I don't know exactly when he learned this
but he does definitely think that because later he talks about how Joab
slew men that were more righteous than him and so he talks about Abner and
Mesa being more righteous than Joab which even could suggest that jobs is a
pretty scummy guy because we don't know that Abner and the Mesa are really that
great but it's just like a comparison to Joab it's like everybody's better than
you but he replaces Joab in this position and you know we have to realize
why didn't he replace jobs sooner why why is job some position because a
crappy person that's a good general is better than no general and sometimes you
just don't have the replacement and we have to realize sometimes a bad leader
is better than no leader now obviously a bad leader is not good we're not we're
not saying like this is ideal but just even a bad leader can least keep things
together people can kind of keep going anarchy is never a good option anarchy
is never the right move and no matter how bad a leader is often having a
leader just in general is better than having absolutely no leader so from
Davis perspective having Joab be in this position is not necessarily because he
really wants him there I think he's doing a good job it's just who are you
gonna replace him with and I think sometimes people this is what happens
people don't realize they are in a position for one reason there is no
replacement in our workforce today there is so many people that have a job today
only for one reason there is no replacement the boss is mad at them the
boss doesn't like them the boss wants to fire them but there is no replacement at
this time so it's just like well I guess I just ride the train ride whatever it
is and you could get in a place where you just feel really comfortable in a
position because of that but that's the wrong attitude because eventually the
replacement will come and then you'll be out on the street so you always want to
be in a good employee you always want to work hard you always want to be pleasing
unto your employer and not take things for granted and and just assume oh no
one could replace me I'm Joab I'm the general you know sorry you just got just
got replaced buddy you just got thrown out I mean King Saul got replaced if King
Saul is getting replaced then we know anybody can be replaced but it didn't
God let Saul even after God rejected Saul didn't it take a long time to get
the David why because not having saw would have been really bad for the
children of Israel as opposed to letting him just stays as bad leader for a long
time and then eventually bringing in David and you know what even churches
could be like this where a pastor is not a good pastor or kind of bad but he's
just kind of like holding things together for a while until the
replacement comes you know and there could be I I personally can think of
scenarios that recently even happened or other scenarios where I'm thinking
like I don't like this pastor I don't think it's a good job good guy
necessarily but he's holding things together for the future of this church
over the future of this congregation and then maybe the future will actually be
bright when they get a different person in or the right person comes in and you
have that leadership change and so we don't want to just always be against bad
leaders in the sense that well we just got to get them out right away because
some people have this attitude like I've heard this stupid philosophy of like if
a pastor is doing something bad or wrong that you just need to just like rise up
and revolt and throw them out and it's like no because if God really feels like
that person needs to replace I think God will replace them number one but it may
not be the right timing anyways you guys may not understand what's the right
timing for that God understands the timing waiting for the right person to
get groomed the right person to come into power you know what it been good
for David to come into power as King before he even killed Goliath because
think of it this way how would the children of Israel had respect unto
David when this little shepherd boy I mean did any of David's brethren have
any respect for him at all zero and he had even killed a bear and a lion but
apparently didn't matter because I guess they didn't see it or something right
they didn't they didn't get to experience it so who nuts to David but
you know what David killing Goliath David killing a bunch of Philistines
leading the army for a really long time going out and gathering a whole bunch of
men having to be on the run training them showing how loyal he was all even
when Saul was bad you know all of that was building character in his life so
that when the right day came when the right moment came God could plug him in
and he could be the king that he is so we don't want to get mad at God's
timing with things and think well why is Joe have not getting replaced today
well maybe God's waiting for the right person you know I'll say this I
personally don't really like the idea of Joe Biden dying be right now because
that means Kamala Harris would be our president and I'll tell you that I think
that's way worse personally I mean I think that she doesn't understand
anything she is a figurehead and I think I think the president's are always a
figurehead but their image gives credence to the laws they're going to
bring in obviously with her coming in she's gonna bring even more feminism and
more just nonsense and just race baiting and just like all kinds of junk if she
was the president that they would try to bring in if she was in that position so
it's like maybe we just stick with our really bad leader for now and just wait
for God to put the right person in now maybe that you know the Antichrist is
next I don't know I don't know what's gonna happen but I am saying this that
sometimes you know even a bad leader is better than the next person down the
pipe you know think about this oh well maybe both of them oh so then you want
Nancy Pelosi to be the president I mean when you start going down the rung it
starts getting worse probably okay I don't know I don't even know where it
goes next I mean is Pete Buttigieg on that list because I'm thinking like man
that would be a bad day in America if that guy somehow got in the in the White
House aides would be everywhere you know monkey pox in the White House but the
point that I'm making is this never just feel comfortable in the position you're
in just because it doesn't seem like you could be replaced because you could be a
place eventually and you want to do a good job regardless of possibly being
replaced as a verse number 14 let's keep reading here
and he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah even as the heart of one man so
they sent this word in the king returned now and all thy servants so the king
returning came to Jordan and Judah came to Gilgal to meet to go to meet the king
and conduct the king over Jordan and shimmy I the son of Gira Benjamin which
was a Bahuram hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David and
there were a thousand men of Benjamin with them and Ziba the servant of the
house of Saul and his 15 sons and his 20 servants with them and they went over
Jordan before the king and there went over a ferryboat to carry over the
king's household and to do what he thought good and shimmy I the son of
Gira fell down before the king as he was come over Jordan and said unto the king
let not my lord impute iniquity unto me neither do thou remember that which thy
servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem that
the king should take it to his heart and thy servant doth know that I have sinned
therefore behold I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to
go down to meet my lord the king but Abishai the son of Zaria answered and
said shall not shimmy I be put to death for this because yet because he cursed
the Lord's anointed and David said what have I to do with you sons of Saria that
you should this day be adversaries unto me so there any man be put to death this
day in Israel for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel therefore
the king said in the shimmy I now shall not die and the king swear in him now
maybe and I don't know exactly the thought process obviously David's so mad
based on his comments Solomon later in the book of Kings however I just go so
over the top with wanting him to be put to death maybe they cause David like
react in the opposite direction and be like no mercy you know let's give him
grace because the punishment seemed a little extreme considering how shimmy I
changed his tune in a shimmy eyes now saying he did perversely he said he's
the first to come back he's seeking the mercy of David and you know I think
there's a picture of the fact that no matter how bad you were when you see
Jesus Christ he's gonna give you salvation he's gonna give you that
mercy you know there really isn't a sin that you can commit that causes you to
not be saved apart from just not believing in the Lord Jesus Christ that
is the one catalyst you know and it can be manifested there's sins that manifest
themselves as someone that rejected the Lord such as blasphemy the Holy Spirit
taking the mark of the bees or being a sodomite those things are outward
manifestations of the fact that you reject the Lord but it wasn't really as
much the inherent nature of that sin as opposed to what it represents it's a
consequence of the fact that they just rejected Jesus and they hate Jesus in
their heart and they'll never believe in him because really that's the only way
to not be saved if you are a wicked person yet you seek the Lord I mean
Jesus even said all manner blasphemy against the Son will be forgiven
except for the blasphemy the Holy Ghost and we see that he was blaspheming David
he was mocking David as a picture of those Jews who mocked Jesus and were
willing for him to be crucified and despised him but you know what those
that came first to seek mercy ended up getting it how about Saul wasn't Saul
consenting under the death of Stephen didn't he mock Christians and hail them
to prison and he was a blasphemer yet he sought mercy and he found it now
semia is not necessarily Paul okay but the concept still applies in the sense
that you seek mercy you get it a picture that this this chapter really has though
is the second coming of Christ because we had the Antichrist we had him dealt
with and David had fled kind of picture Jesus being in heaven now David's
returning and his saints are seeing him and I think one of the pictures here is
the sense that when Jesus returns it's just going to be blessing to his
servants ok now at the same time though you can be ashamed because keep your
finger here and go to 1st John chapter number 2 1st John chapter number 2 and I
want you to understand the complexity to the return of Jesus Christ because the
Bible talks about there's going to be a judgment seat of Christ and all your
works are going to be tried by the fire and you could potentially have a lot of
gold silver and precious stone which will last the fire and you'll receive
reward for it we could have a lot of wood and stubble the Bible says you'll
suffer loss but it says that you'll still be saved ok and there is going to
be a lot of Christians people who are saved who in Jesus Christ returns are
mixed emotions because of the fact that obviously they're gonna be glad he's
back
obviously they're excited about salvation but they're also embarrassed
at the same time because they didn't do right it's kind of like kids with their
dad coming home but they didn't do their chores they're excited that's coming
home but then they remember I didn't do my chores so they're like I'm I'm kind
of glad you're here but you know what are you gonna do about that right when
the fact that I was wicked
well look what it says in first John chapter number 2 verse 26 these things
have I written on you concerning them that seduce you but the anointing which
you have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you
but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and his truth and is no
lie and even as the death taught you ye shall abide in him and now little
children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence
and not be ashamed before him at his coming notice there was a mixed response
to the return of David some were ready to go for it some are gonna be demoted
some are gonna be promoted some are gonna be last to receive him some are
gonna have to come and they're gonna have to come hat in hand and say yeah I
was a really bad person sorry and wouldn't that be a wouldn't that be a
shame that the day of Christ that Christ returning you're not just a hundred
percent excited about it they are a little bit embarrassed a little bit
shamed you're just kind of like oh yeah I've been in church I've been following
commandments I'm not doing anything right you're here yeah it's like notice
that the Bible literally says we have confidence and not be ashamed before him
at his coming so you know some people would twist this work salvation is
twist this passage they suggest that oh if you're not doing the works you're
gonna be ashamed go to hell we can't go to hell but you can still be ashamed in
Christ just like shimmy I was ashamed just like in first Corinthians chapter
number three when you're suffering all the loss of her would a and subtle it's
kind of embarrassing it's kind of embarrassing to show your work you know
when you go to school and you have to show your project or show your work and
you didn't do a good job or it's not well done it's embarrassing to have to
present something that you didn't do a very good job with and God gave us this
life it's embarrassing it's embarrassing to be the guy who took his talent and
buried it in a napkin and then is coming back the king comes back the nobleman
comes back the master comes back and you're like oh here's your dirty coin
back you know he's like you knew I was a Jew you know that was a hard man and
reap is where I don't so he's like take that away from him and give it to the
guy that has 10 it's like hey you know what are you doing buddy and obviously
after we're all in heaven and we've been there for a long time it's just gonna be
joy and there's happiness but there is gonna be a moment of judgment there is
gonna be a time when your works will be measured and I think that most Christians
don't care about this go back to the past like it does not matter what you do
think say there is going to be a moment in time where you stand before God and
everything's exposed your whole life is going to be exposed before him
everything's gonna be judged everything's gonna be weighed and you know
it's like some Christians have no fear of God I mean you just like you just
look at some Christians and it's like you don't really go to church you don't
really read the Bible you don't go soul winning you don't pray you're not
helping people you're just living for yourself you just mock church you're so
apathetic it's like how embarrassed are you gonna be on judgment day how
shameful is it gonna be they're gonna stand there and have to give an account
of what you did and it's like here's you know the TV I watched here's all the
movies I owned you won't even want to own you wouldn't want to want to Jesus
if he was like who owns this movie you'd be like it's like you did and you know
this one you did this and you wore this year it's like that we're now of course
obviously we're not gonna be shamed for all of our sins I get that but at the
same time all of your works whether they're good or bad according the Bible
are gonna be judged and you're gonna have crappy works you're gonna have
things that just don't look good aren't something that you want everybody else
to notice or specifically even Jesus himself that's why it's important to
serve God you say why do you serve God pastor Shelley because I know I'm gonna
stand before Jesus one day why do you why do you do the things that the Bible
says because I know that no matter what I have to live with the consequences of
this life for all of eternity I mean how can you not want to serve God with every
fiber of your being I mean you're gonna you're gonna literally all of eternity
is gonna be set based on what you're doing right now and we just get so
fixated on the things of the flesh in this world and the stuff that doesn't
really matter vanity of vanity say the preacher I mean when you get into heaven
you're gonna know that verse like the back of your hand all you backslidden
Christians out there and be like wow is my life vanity wow was that worthless
why did I waste all of my life why did I waste all of my time why did I never
serve God and you know what it's just sick it's just sick to me how apathetic
Christians are it's like you just not fear God you really I mean you just
think that God's gonna forget judgment day you just think that Jesus isn't
gonna show up do you really think that he's gonna forget all those crappy works
you have do you just really think that he didn't care do you really think you
just he you know I mean it's frustrating when we're making this film and I learn
history about how many people were literally burned at the stake so you
could have a King James Bible in your hand and then people won't have a Bible
in church I mean people were dipped into boiling hot oil and having their skin
slowly burned off starting with the toe and then going down to the foot and then
going down to the ankle and they go I mean people were burned for teaching
their children the Lord's Prayer the Catholic Church was just murdering and
massacring any Christian that wanted the Bible in English and then you have a
Bible in English that people could have and they just they don't even want to
look at it they don't want to read it they don't even care they're so
apathetic I mean it's just so much abundance and riches and idleness and
just prosperity has just ruined the heart of many Americans so many
Americans today they just don't care about the things of God and it just
sickening I mean you are a disgrace to the Lord Jesus Christ when you don't
care he had to go to the cross for you we have so many Christian I mean the
Apostle Paul to even give us the Christianity we have today had to just
journey into town after town just rejection and beatings and stonings and
fastings and just so many Christians had to be constantly martyred and just
killed and mocked and ridiculed and spat upon just so you could have a Bible in
your hand so you could be safe and then you just turn around and just live this
life of vanity and don't care it's just gross it's sickening it's frustrating
and let me tell you something you know why I'm so mad because I know that Jesus
is gonna be way more mad than I am and I'm just trying to give you a sample of
how embarrassing is gonna be I don't like the way pastor Shelley word of that
you're too bombastic no I can't get bombastic enough you will never when you
stand before Jesus you'll never think like Oh pastor Shelley was act
overreacting about this moment in my life you'd be like I wish pastor Shelley
had picked me up and literally kicked me in the rear during the service so that I
would have served God more like the preaching wasn't hard enough here we be
like I wish pastor Shelley had called me every day and yelled at me to go and
serve God you know people get mad like oh you just yelling about it's in your
sermon well quit being backslidden quit being apathetic you loser you're a loser
if you're apathetic you're a loser if you're backslidden I mean we are in the
fight of our life this country and this culture is trying to just literally
bring in Satanism where are the Christians where are the light bringers
I mean my wife told me about this god-forbidden TV show or something
someone's making Disney Channel is making some channel some new episode
sitcom I don't know what it is it's like about the lady raising the Antichrist
it's I don't know if it's a cartoon or if it's like I don't know what it is she
told me about it it there's like a literal Disney show about this woman who
has like a relationship with the devil and then gives birth to this bastard
Antichrist child and then this Antichrist child like going to public
school and just like torturing people and doing evil things to them or
something like that I mean what is this world coming to we're just bringing
Satanism into the cult I mean how is it that there aren't other churches getting
mad about it how is there no pastor that's ringing the the sound bar you
know alarm it's like that one church has people mad at it it's like I should have
more people mad at me as evil and wicked as this nation is and the culture is in
severe decline and it's so apathetic I mean maybe some real persecution will
wake a couple people up I don't think even know what persecution is I mean who
in here is afraid you're going to be burned at the stake for teaching a kid
the Bible verse this week I'm trying to motivate you with ice cream and doesn't
even work I mean these parents are doing it at the threat of death I guarantee
their kids would have every verse memorized for the ice cream challenge
when they have well maybe not because I guess they would all be you know fed
horses and not caring anymore either right but you know what shimmy I had an
embarrassing day and we look down upon shimmy I cuz we think like oh I would
never curse David or I would never do bad but you know what your bad works are
gonna be just as embarrassing as shimmy I don't just sit here and get mad at
shimmy I shimmy I don't be like Abishai let's kill him you know Abishai has got
his stuff to have to give an account for okay this bloody man or whatever go back
I want to finish one more part of this story and and next week is a little bit
shorter of a chapter so we can kind of combine the last portion because it kind
of talks about anyways but I'm I'm serious you will stand before Jesus and
it is gonna be embarrassing if you didn't serve him fact so don't get mad
at me get mad at yourself for being lazy second Samuel chapter 19 look what
it says I think we're in verse number 21 or no verse 24 and Mephibosheth the son
of Saul came down to meet the king and neither dressed his feet nor trimmed his
beard nor washed his clothes from the day the king departed until the day he
came again in peace and it came to pass when he was come to Jerusalem to meet
the king that the king said on him wherefore when is not thou with me
Mephibosheth and he answered my lord o king my servant deceived me for thy
servant said I will saddle me and ask that I may ride thereon and go to the
king because thy servant is lame and he has slandered thy servant unto my lord
the king but my lord the king is as an angel of God do therefore what is good
in thine eyes for all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the
king yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own
table what right therefore have I yet to cry anymore unto the king and the king
said unto them why speakest thou any more of thy matters I have said thou
and Ziba divide the land and Mephibosheth said unto the king yea let him take it all
let him take all for as much as my lord the king has come again in peace unto
his own house now Ziba told a different story in the essence of who's telling
the truth we don't know for sure I personally believe Mephibosheth is
telling truth now Ziba did bless David though he did bring a bunch of food and
stuff when they were in weakness so Dave is just like I don't want to like figure
out who's right and wrong here y'all just divide the land because Ziba's done
some good Mephibosheth story actually makes sense because we see that he
didn't trim his beard so he was look like he was in mourning physically so
stands the reason why he did that also it makes sense that he wouldn't be able
to just saddle horse from self he doesn't can't even walk so he depends on
other people's it's very likely he couldn't just escape on his own and he
calls out Ziba he says hey Ziba slandered me why would he make such a
statement if it just wasn't even true because Ziba's there didn't you read
previously and it said in a few verses before verse 17 and there were a
thousand men of Benjamin with him and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul so
Ziba's here Ziba could pipe up at any moment be like oh no I I told the truth
here I know that I noticed that Ziba's just real quiet Ziba doesn't seem to say
anything but David just lets them divide the land and then Mephibosheth is like
let him have it all you know hey if they want to take away thy coat you can
have my cloak also why Mephibosheth doesn't care about physical things it's
not interested in money also to me symbolizing why he's probably telling
the truth he doesn't really have an interest in the things of this world
he's interested in David and you know what that shows to me the ultimate heart
of a disciple is one is willing to forsake houses and lands and fathers and
mothers for the cause of Christ and you know the Bible says that many that are
first shall be last and many that are last will be first I personally believe
that Mephibosheth is going to be one of the first in the kingdom of heaven but
you know what he was one of the last on this earth and I think you know an
encouraging character in the Bible is Mephibosheth because Mephibosheth is an
ultimate picture of weakness and being lame and there are people that are
literally like this there are people in this life that are lame or weaker than
others you know they're not they're not this gifted 6'5 strapping NFL quarterback
or something you know they're not just gifted with just the greatest body and
the greatest everything and and some people are little even cripple you know
what that doesn't stop you from being one of the greatest people in the
kingdom of heaven and you know it should be an encouragement to you that you
actually have a real purpose with your life you can do something big for God in
your life you know God's not holding you back based on your physical circumstances
God wants to bless you also Mephibosheth pictures us in the sense that we're
lame we can't get into heaven we can't do anything we depend on God we depend
on other people and when we depend upon him he lifts us up and he elevates us
and he sets us at his own table I don't deserve a table with Jesus I don't
deserve to go to heaven I don't deserve any of these things but you know what I
get this opportunity and of course you know why David wants to put him there
because he forsook all he doesn't care about the things of this world he just
cares about seeking David and you know what when you just seek Jesus he'll give
it all to you anyways when you seek the things of this world who cares and
that's to you Ziba is just a nothing burger after this nobody cares about him
not interesting now it says in verse 31 and Barzillai the Gileadite came down
from Ogilum and went over Jordan with the king to conduct him over Jordan now
Barzillai was a very aged man even four square years old and he provided the
king of sustenance while he lay in Mahanaim for he was a very great man and
the king said in a Barzillai come now over with me and I will feed thee with
me in Jerusalem Barzillai said unto the king how long have I to live and that I
should go up with the king unto Jerusalem I am this day four score years
old and can I discern between good and evil can thy servant taste what I eat
or what I drink can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women
wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my Lord the king thy
servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king and why should the king
recompense it me with such a reward let thy servant I pray thee turn back again
that I may die in my own city and be buried by the grave of my father and of
my mother but behold thy servant Kenim let him go over with my lord the king
and do him what shall seem good unto thee and the king answered Kenim shall
go over with me and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee and
whatsoever thou shall require of me that will I do for thee and all the people
went over Jordan and when the king was come over the king kissed Barzillai and
blessed him and he returned unto his own place then the king went on to Gilgal and
Kenim went on with him and all the people of Judah conducted the king and
also half the people of Israel I'm gonna stop there because the last few verses
are good for the next chapter but I do want to go to go to Proverbs 17 I want
to show you like two more verses here in Proverbs and we finished I don't know
exactly the relationship between Barzillai and Kenim as described by
Barzillai he's his servant but Barzillai is saying you know what I could go and
hang out with you guys but I don't even really get to benefit from it because
nothing tastes good to me anymore I can't hear anything anymore I'm just so
old that all of the fun and enjoyment of being with the king isn't even really
worth it for me you're gonna be wasting it on me and I'm just gonna be a burden
unto you it makes more sense for you to to bless someone that can actually enjoy
all these things why don't you let Kenim enjoy all of these things and really
Barzillai is a great attitude just one of just caring more about the next
generation Jesus models this for us caring about us lowering himself so that
we can have better you know what would to God the men in this room the fathers
in this room would elevate their children above themselves and would say
you know what it's more important that my children have what's good and right
then for me to have it you know I don't I don't need to have all the great
things in this world because it's not going to benefit me that much I would
rather my kids have things that are needful and and blessings you don't we
don't want to live this selfish lifestyle where we just try to suck
every ounce of life out for ourselves
it's better sometimes lay up things for your children you know the Bible says a
good man leaving an inheritance into his children's children so according to the
Bible you know it's good to lay up the you know parents supposed to lay up for
the children not children for the parents and if you truly have a heart
for your children you're gonna want to bless them and do good unto them here's
another aspect though Barzillai could just really have a good servant here and
when you're just a really good servant you can like become someone's son in
essence even though you're not physically their child look what it says
in Proverbs 17 verse 2 a wise servant shall have rule over a son that causes
shame and you'll have part of the inheritance among the brethren you know
being a wise servant is always a good idea because then you get promoted isn't
that kind of we've been talking about being wise being good servant jobs a bad
example of this shimmy I made a lot of mistakes we're gonna ultimately be
judged and isn't it great that even though we're God's servants one day we
get to be a son's go to Proverbs 29 Proverbs chapter 29 and of course God is
going to promote us according to our works according to our deeds and if
you're a wise servant God is gonna bless you greatly and you're gonna get to
enjoy all of these wonderful blessings that they there is to be had Proverbs
chapter 29 look at verse 21 he that delicately bringeth up a servant from a
child shall have him become his son at the link you know even second
Corinthians chapter number six job God even says that he'll be a father unto
us and will be his sons will be his daughters you know John chapter 1 verse
12 we become the sons of God you know we don't aren't just servants we become
children I personally believe every single person is a servant of God ok not
everybody's a child of God everyone is in the servant category because everyone
is commanded to serve God some people are bad servants but think about it it
makes sense because don't you have people like Nebuchadnezzar is God's
servant Pharaoh's God's servant in a way in a situation and that's how you have
to understand a lot of these parables even that the Jews were God's servants
you know what happened a lot of Jews weren't God's sons and they didn't end up
getting saved and the wise servant will end up becoming God's son in the latter
portion and just like I wanted to bless his son of all these rewards God wants
to bless us with all these and we should be the same father that God is to us we
should want to bless our children and do good under our children but at the end
of the day you know even if it wasn't even flesh and blood we should just pour
into the next generation you know taking people there's people you know in this
room that are not related to me that I try to invest a lot of time effort and
energy into because I want them to reach their full potential and you know I hope
that everyone in this room could do that you know whether you have a lot of
children or you don't or you have children in this room or you don't or
you have someone obvious important you know just find someone to pour into just
find a Kenam in your life that you can say you know what even if I die eating
just biscuits and honey you know let's let this guy go serve with the king
let's let this guy have a great life let's let this guy do great works and
great one just setting up the next guy and the next generation and the next
servant and just looking on the things of others and just trying to bless other
people you know this is the heart you know this is the heart that John the
band is supposed to bring back in the spirit of Elias that you would turn the
hearts of the fathers to children and you turn the hearts of the children to
the fathers know I hope that our church will care about everything other than
yourself you want God to lift you up in that moment care about everyone but
yourself stop caring about yourself you know you say I have bad emotions stop
caring about yourself what most of our emotions that are negative it's self
pity isn't it self-woe like oh my life so bad and I have it so hard and it's so
frustrating and by just it's always this like self-pity train whereas people that
are really happy genuinely are typically focused on other people and they're
focused on how they can bless other people and you know if you really want
true joy bless other people do good on other people it's more blessed to give
than receive let's go some prayer they give me father for the word of God thank
you for these examples that you've shown us thank you for helping us be aware of
that there is a judgment day coming there is a day when we'll stand before
Christ and will be rewarded according to our works and I pray that people would
take that seriously I pray they would take the jobs and positions they have in
this life seriously you take the relationships we have in this life
seriously that would be motivated to serve you and to be that wise steward
that wise servant knowing that we're going to become sons of God and in
physical form in Jesus name we pray amen
all right for our last song for the evening you'll take your white handouts
and turn to holy holy holy great powerful song holy holy holy sing it out
nice and loud together holy holy holy
holy holy holy Lord God Almighty early in the morning our song shall rise to
thee holy holy holy merciful and mighty God in three persons blessed Trinity
holy holy holy all the Saints adore thee casting down their golden crowds
around the glassy sea cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee which
word and art and evermore shall be holy holy holy though the darkness hide thee
though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see only thou art holy there is
none beside thee perfect in power in love and purity
holy holy holy Lord God Almighty all thy work shall
praise thy name in earth and sky and sea holy holy holy merciful and mighty
God in three persons blessed Trinity
great singing everyone God bless you our