get to that chorus. We're not in a hurry. Lift it up to our Lord this morning and let our
voices be heard.
Sing it on that last verse now.
Everyone, welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Thanks for coming this Wednesday evening.
It's good to see you all.
Let's find our seats and open our hymn books, page two.
Glory to his name.
Let's find our seats.
Find a hymn book nearby.
Page two, glory to his name.
["Glory to His Name"]
Page number two, glory to his name.
Let's get out beyond the fur-
We thank you for everyone gathered here together in your name.
We pray, Lord, that you would open up the scriptures to us tonight
and that we would fill Pastor Shelley with your Holy Spirit.
Help us to take away truths out of your word
and help us to apply them to our lives.
We love you in Jesus' name and pray. Amen.
Let's turn to page 244. Amazing grace.
Page 244. Amazing grace.
Page 244.
Thanks for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church. If you need a bulletin, you can lift up your hand
nice and high whenever ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
We're finishing up Jude 1 for our Bible memory chapter.
And if you can quote the verse the week 18 or under,
you can get a special treat inside as our service
and soul winning times.
Also our church stats, please be in prayer
for all of our expecting ladies.
We have several ladies who are expecting,
it's such a blessing.
Please be in prayer for them.
Also upcoming events.
This Saturday is gonna be our soul winning seminar.
If you haven't, please make sure to sign up.
That way we have an accurate count as far as
the event because we're going to be planning on having some food there so if you'd like to join
us for lunch and a little bit of soul winning instruction Brother Marcel is going to be leading
that so we're excited about this. Our mission's trip to the Bahamas is happening next week
and so if you are scheduled or you believe you're going on this trip you should have gotten an email
That trip, if you did not get that email,
you need to get with me or evangelist fur
and make sure that we have your information.
It could've, we could've missed it
or it slipped by or something,
but we wanna make sure we have everything accurate.
So if you did not get any information,
please contact us immediately
so that way we can make sure to get that addressed.
If you're not able to go on the trip,
please just pray that the trip goes smoothly.
Obviously there can be all kinds of obstacles.
weather just just people that don't want us to you know give the gospel and
stuff and just pray that it'll go smoothly that we have opportunities to go
maybe into the schools and other areas and preach you never know what's gonna
happen also I'll probably send out another email maybe Friday to our group
just of just some helpful tips of just like maybe things to remind to bring with
you or to pack or just some general instruction
One thing you do have to do on any missions trip though is always be willing to adjust
because you never know what's going to happen and so we're going to always be
going where the spirit blows right well wherever the spirit blows we're going to try to adjust
and accommodate that but honestly it's looking like it's going to be an awesome trip it's a pretty
similar group to what we had a couple years ago as far as just numbers and people that are going
Um, and so I'm really looking forward to it, but just pray again that it's going to go smoothly and that we can see a lot of people saved
Pastor Bruce Mejia is going to be preaching for us October 19th. So we're excited about that
He's going to be preaching our spanish service and both of the english services. So
We've got him for it. It's a triple decker's day. All right, so
Definitely pray for him on that
We have a fall swap October 26th, October 31st is the Texas Chili Cook-Off,
the missions conference that Faith Word Baptist Church is hosting November 5th to the 9th.
I'm just putting it out there if anybody's interested. I'll be preaching that Thursday.
I believe that's November 6th. I think that that's the date, but I'll still be here for
Wednesday service, but then I'll be traveling out there and preaching just as a special
preacher for their Thursday service. Anchor Baptist Church with Pastor Dylan Oz is going
to be having their one-year anniversary, November 23rd, and I've been invited to go out there
and preach for them, so I'll be preaching both services on November 23rd.
The turkey bowl is November 29th, our ladies Christmas party is December 5th, Christmas
caroling December 8th, cookie bake off December 21st.
Christmas Candlelight Service December 24th men's preaching and pizza December 31st
So we've got lots of events lots of fun stuff
Honestly, this is probably one of the best seasons in Texas
It's kind of like our best weather part of the year too. And so it's great time to be here
It's a great time to have a lot of fun and preach the gospel. So
Looking forward to all of those events on the back is our prayer list. We'll kind of go over that quickly as a church family
Again, if you have any updates, you can always email us for now step fast Baptist kjv at gmail.com. We try to keep this updated
Please continue to pray for the Carlson's for their mother for the parents health and then we're also praying for miss
Miller's friend his mother
Continue to pray for brother Horace and miss grace and the miss Olivia. If you'd pray for brother Tony
We're praying for the car for the
Carlos or the Foley's dad. We're also praying for
the Urbanax grandmother and friend.
I think we need to make sure to update them in the bulletin.
She's not in the ICU still, right?
So I think we need to just update that in the bulletin.
But just continue to pray for her recovery.
Also pray for Brother Gabe's mother.
And then also praise report from Miss Ginger for her cousin.
So she had a successful surgery,
but we'll continue to pray
for her follow-up and recovery from that.
Also continue to pray for the Maidren's daughter.
their friend and then a praise report for brother Roger got a new job so that's great.
Continue to pray for the weathers and brother Paul. He's been doing really good but just
continue to pray for him and for his recovery. Pray for the illies for their work and their
grandmother unfortunately had a heart attack so if you pray for them.
Pray for brother Goodwin's sister also who had recently lost her husband
If you continue to pray for miss Lola and miss Phoebe for
Their loss and then also another loss brother wallach was asking for prayer for his aunt
Who had passed away so several several up here request in there. We'll just say quick
word of prayer as a church family. Thank you Heavenly Father so much for our church. Thank you
for Steadfast Baptist Church. Thank you for all these ladies who are expecting in our church.
It's such a blessing. I pray that you would just help them have a timely birth, that you would
help them with their delivery. Please give their children just smooth development. And I pray I
thank you so much for these other ladies who have recently given birth that you just continue to
bless them. Give them a recovery and help their children's development. I pray that you'd also
health issues and illnesses, not just our family but our friends and our neighbors and our loved
ones that we're caring for. Those who have cancer, those who have disease, those who have serious
ailments, I pray if possible that you would just give them healing. Please give them recovery,
please give them wisdom for their decision making. I pray that you'd also help just give them some
peace during this time of affliction. Those who are going through surgery or are recovering,
I pray that you would just bless them, give them favor, please help them to continue to recover
use them. I pray that you'd also bless those that are needing help with their
jobs or their work that you would continue to give them favor. And I pray
that you just bless our upcoming missions trip. Please bless our work
that we're gonna do in the Bahamas. I pray that you would just keep us safe as
we go. Please bless the work that's being done in the Philippines with our
evangelists. And please bless him and his family. And we just thank you so much
for all that you've given us. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
So go ahead and sing our Psalm hymn of the week it's our special hymn where the spirit blows
So if you get out your binders, where the spirit blows
All right, where the spirit blows
It allowed me on the first
Where spirit blows, we will go, love, love, love. Where spirit blows, we will go, yellow and brown to every town. Not just the juice, let's go in juice. Where spirit blows, we will go.
Where the spirit flows, we will go, go, go, go, Where the spirit flows, we will go,
The offering plates will be passed around, and in the meantime, you can turn in your Bibles to Deuteronomy chapter 3.
That's Deuteronomy chapter 3.
to me.
Chapter number.
Then we turned and went up the way to Beishan,
and Og the king of Beishan came out against us,
he and all his people to battle at Eidrai.
And the Lord said unto me, fear him not,
for I will deliver him, and all his people in his land,
into thy hand, and thou shalt do unto him,
as thou didst unto Sihon, king of the Amorites,
which dwelt at Heshban.
So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also,
the king of Beishan, and all his people,
and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
and we took all his cities at that time.
There was not a city which we took not from them,
three-score cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Agh and Beishan.
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates,
and bars beside unwalled towns, a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them as we did unto Sihon, the king of Heshban, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.
But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took for a prey to ourselves.
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, the land that was on this side, Jordan, from the river of Arnon, unto Mount Hermon.
Which Hermon the Sidonians call Cyrean, and the Amorites call it Sheneer.
All the cities of the plain, and all Iliad, and all Baishan, unto Salka, and Idriai, cities of the kingdom of Og and Baishan.
For only Og, king of Baishan, remained of the remnant of giants.
Behold, his bedstead was bedstead of iron. Is it not in Rabath?
Of the children of Ammon nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth are of after the cubit of a man
And his land which we possessed at that time from Aurora
Which is by the river Arnon and half Mount Gilead and the cities thereof gave I unto the Rubinites and into the Gadites
And the rest of Gilead and all Baychan being the kingdom of all gave on to the half tribe of Massey
All the region of Argon with all Baychan, which was called the land of giants Jair the son of Manassee took all country
of Argab and to the coasts of Ghashurai and Makathie, and called them after his own name.
Baisha and Havath Jair unto this day, and I gave Gilead unto Maker, and unto the Rubinites, and unto the Gaddites,
I gave from Gilead, even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border, even unto the river Jbuk,
which is the border of the children of Ammon. The plain also in Jordan, and the coast thereof, from
Chenereth, even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdod.
Ashdoth Pisgah eastward and I had and I commanded you at that time saying the Lord your God have
given you this land to possess it he shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of
Israel all that are meat for war but your wives and your literal ones in your cattle for I know
that you have much cattle shall abiding your cities which I have given you until the Lord have given
rest into your brethren as well as unto you and until they also possess the land which the Lord
your God have given unto them beyond Jordan and then shall ye return every man into his possession
have given you and I commanded Joshua at that time saying that I have seen all
that the Lord your God has done unto these two kings so shall the Lord do
unto all the kingdoms whither thou passes you shall not fear them for the
Lord your God he shall fight for you and I besought the Lord at that time
saying oh Lord God thou has begun to show thy servant thy greatness in thy
mighty hand for what God is there in heaven or in earth
I can do according to thy works or according to thy might.
I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain
and Lebanon, but the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me, and
the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee, speak no more unto me of this matter.
Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward and northward and southward
and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes, for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
and strengthen him, for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit
the land which thou shalt see." So we abode in the valley over against Beth Peore. Let us pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for the chapter of the Bible, Lord. Thank you for setting
fast back to church. Thank you for Pastor Shelley. Pray that you film with your Holy Spirit, Lord,
to preach unto us and help us to make changes in our lives applicable to become better Christians.
Amen, so we're continuing our Bible study
through the book of Deuteronomy.
Here we're continuing just kind of a recap.
Moses is just kind of talking about the things
that have happened and just reminding the children
of Israel where they're at.
He's kind of speaking to the younger generation
because the older generation has died
in these 40 years in the wilderness.
They're on the precipice of entering into the promised land
and he's gonna be making a transition in leadership.
He's gonna be handing over the baton onto Joshua
and really probably the biggest theme in the book.
Deuteronomy is just the baton passing. You're going to see little mentions of
that throughout the entire text, but Moses is handing the baton off to Joshua,
and Joshua is going to then lead them into the Promised Land, and it's just
kind of reminding them of why they're where they're at, why Moses needs to
pass the baton off, what's happened, and recapping different things that have
happened in these last 40 years, and we of course
We can learn from these examples as well.
We can learn from these stories of things that we should do,
of things that we should not do,
just kind of similar situations
that we might find ourselves in,
and learning through other people's mistakes.
It's better to learn through other people's mistakes
rather than having to learn it for yourself.
They always say experience is the best teacher,
but that phrase isn't always the best, right?
Not everything is learned the best through experience.
I don't want to learn about divorce and remarriage
through experience.
I don't want to learn what it's like to get run over
by a car through experience.
You know, not everything has to be learned through experience.
Sometimes you can learn through other people's experience,
some really just the wisdom of God's word.
You know, we should believe things because of the Bible.
We shouldn't even need an example.
But of course, we use their example
to teach us different things.
Here in the text we are kind of again they in chapter 2 we talked about how they had fought the right battle
There were some battles. They were not supposed to fight. They weren't supposed to fight Ammon the Moabites
They weren't supposed to fight their brethren, but rather they were supposed to fight Sihon the king of Heshbon
Now in chapter number three, there's another battle that's similar to the Sihon battle
It says in verse 1 then we turn and went
up the way to Beishan, and Og the king of Beishan came out against us, he and all his people
to battle at Red Eye.
And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not, for I will deliver him and all his people, and
his land into thy hand, and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Zion king of the
Amorites, which dwelt at Heshban.
So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Beishan, and all his people,
and we smote him until none was left to him remaining."
And we took all the cities at that time.
There was not a city which we took not from them,
three score cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Og and Beishan.
All these cities were fenced with high walls,
gates and bars, beside unwalled towns, a great many.
And we utterly destroyed them as we did
in the Zion King of Heshban, utterly destroying
the men, women and children of every city,
but all the cattle and the spool of the cities
we took for a prey to ourselves.
Last week, I spent a little bit of time kind of just at the end of my sermon dealing with the issue of destroying men, women, and children.
For the sake of this sermon, I'm not going to rehash that if you want kind of my explanation of what's going on there.
We have to realize that, you know, these people are being punished for having, you know, resisted against the children of Israel and trying to fight them and trying to attack them.
You know, some carnal things that I did not bring up.
but could just also be reasons why God had destroyed his entire group of people.
Could have just been simple things like disease.
or infection, you know, bringing any of these people into the congregation could have actually
caused them to kill many of the children of Israel because of them bringing all this disease
or infection or other problems.
That could have been, I'm not saying that's for sure, but that could have been one of
the reasons why it was so important to just eradicate their entire group of people and
only bring in their cattle or only bring in their food sources as some kind of a reward.
completely. One thing we should realize is that when God wants us to destroy someone completely,
we should do it. And you know, it's unfortunate that these people were killed along with their
husbands, these women and children, but it's sad how God wants people to have so much of
a stomach that if God said, destroy this entire family, you would do it. Yet today, we have
a group of people that are not even willing to put murderers to death.
We have politicians that are advocating that we shouldn't put rapists to death, that we shouldn't put serial killers to death.
In fact, probably one of the weirdest things I've ever heard was today when I heard Ted Cruz, which is a fake garbage politician.
He's just a Zionist shill. He just does whatever Israel tells him to do.
This fake politician said today that we need to stop attacking pedophiles.
What in the world, like in some kind of a congressional meeting or some kind of a
hearing chamber meeting, I mean in front of other politicians he's giving his
little speech and he's talking about all the problems in America and he says one
of the problems we have is that you know we're attacking pedophiles. To me the
only person that can even say that is a pedophile himself.
Like I can't even imagine anybody advocating for the idea of not wanting to quote attack pedophiles or something like that
I mean is that because you're gonna lose all your donor money?
I mean what what is the correlation here? How in the world can our politicians and this guy claims to be a Christian?
This guy's representative of Texas, you know, what a shame and embarrassment when Texas has people that are advocating for pedophiles
You know the Bible is having hey kill all of auger the patient kill all the families all the men all the women all the children
And then you have Ted Cruz over here like we shouldn't even kill pedophiles
It's like, what's wrong with Christianity today is people like Ted Cruz
that are fake and not sincere and they have this bleeding heart for the worst people,
for the worst people in the worst scum and they act like they're somehow not deserving or worthy of capital punishment.
Look, we need a limited amount of capital punishment in society.
You know, I'm not saying that it should be for everything.
Obviously, the Bible has clear boundaries.
You know, some people try to say like,
oh, the Bible says for the wages and his death,
that means we should all die.
No, no, no, the Bible doesn't say in Romans 6.23
that everybody should be put to death.
The Bible is saying that we all deserve hell.
Actually, if you understand the context
of that particular passage.
But it's not saying we all deserve capital punishment.
That would be a ludicrous way to read the Bible.
But let me tell you something.
Murderers should be put to death.
Rapists should be put to death pedophiles. Everyone should agree on that one the pedophiles to be put to death
Okay, and faggots are the same faggots are pedophiles, so they should be all be put to death
And you know what that would save America that would help America a lot and I get hey
We have bigger enemies. We have other enemies, but let me tell you something pedophiles are also enemies and they should be put
The death and you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna say like we shouldn't be fighting that battle
We have to fight a lot of enemies at the same time here
And you know, Ag King of Baishan,
they should be completely eradicated,
completely destroyed from this society,
just like all the sodomites should be completely eradicated
from our society as well.
We shouldn't we shouldn't allow any of them to keep going and keep existing and whatever if they could be proven to be a
Sodomite as an as a
Comprehending adult they should be tried and executed properly just line them up against the wall
And I don't care if it's the front or the back of the head just put a bullet in it
Okay, you know, I'm not really like I'm an equal opportunist all sides are fine with me. It's just it's more about just doing it
See, I'm willing to compromise, you know, people say like you won't compromise pastor Shelley, you know
It's like hey front-ahead back-ahead. I'm you know, it's okay caliber. I'm not even that worried about it
You know like how many guys are doing it like I'm really willing to work with people on this particular issue
Okay, and I even said I would volunteer for free, you know if they can't find an executioner
I would volunteer for free so you know we can solve this problem
and America. You just overturned Lawrence versus Texas, and the Texas, you know, legislature
should meet immediately and up the criminal punishment for sodomy to capital punishment,
and we'll fix Texas real quick.
You know, and then we'll really like Texas chili. Okay, you know, I'm just kidding
But that would that would help a lot of things very quickly and you know
Sometimes there are people that just deserve death and we have to realize that we have to understand that
That's not the point of this sermon, but that's at least something we should realize. Hey, there are some people that deserve death
Now let's keep reading it says in verse 8
And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, the land that was on this side Jordan from the river of Arnon unto Mount Hermon,
which Hermon the Sidonians call Cyrean, and the Amorites call it Shiner.
All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Beishan, unto Salka,
And in red-eyed cities of the kingdom of Og and Baishan,
for only Og king of Baishan remained
of the remnant of giants.
Behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron.
Is it not in Rabath of the children of Ammon?
Nine cubits was the link thereof,
and four cubits the breadth of it
after the cubit of a man.
I believe in verse 11, when it says,
for only Og king of the basin remained
of the remnant of the giants,
it's not saying in the world,
it's saying like of this group of people.
So I think like in his little area,
in his particular kingdom,
he's kind of like the last holdout.
of the giants that had remained in his particular area because when they go into the land of Canaan
there are other giants that's kind of brought up in the text so that's kind of my interpretation
maybe I'm wrong but I believe that you know this is the way to interpret it especially considering
like when you go into the future because they kill him think about this they kill him he's gone right
but later in the Bible we know that David is going to kill Goliath which is a giant
so I believe there's still other giants I think what it's just saying in the text is saying
In his particular realm, he's the remaining giant,
and he happens to also be king.
Makes sense, because he's a literal giant.
Now, how big is this guy?
I don't know exactly how big this guy is.
The Bible doesn't say explicitly how tall he is.
It does actually give kind of a height for Goliath.
Talks about him being like nine cubits.
So.
When we talk about king this king og the king of bay shan
You know just just I'm sorry his bedstead is nine cubits. I'm getting those numbers mixed up
I think Goliath was about what nine six cubits. Yes, six cubits in Spain. He's like nine feet tall. Sorry
I misspoke there so Goliath's like nine something foot tall approximately is what we kind of assume and
When we talk about
This guy, he talks about his bed being nine cubits.
Now, nine cubits, you know, what's a cubit?
Typically, it's understood as like the tip of your finger
down to your elbow.
This is kind of like how people used to measure,
because not everybody's carrying a measuring stick around
or carrying something, so it was kind of understood
as this is kind of a general idea, it's about 18 inches.
So we think about it's about a foot and a half,
What would that be? That would be 162 inches or 13 and a half feet.
So this guy's bed is like 13 and a half feet long.
Now that's pretty tall. I mean that's hard to even really comprehend exactly
how tall that is. That's really big. I was thinking about a king bed
and if you have a king bed, a king bed is to traditionally
80 inches long.
Okay, so at king beds 80 inches long his bed is a hundred and sixty two inches long
So it's like two king beds as far as that's like a length in size
Now and width it said that it was six cubits. So that would be approximately
72 inches wide
Now king bed is typically there's a couple variations, but it's typically an 80 by 80
So actually what's interesting is a king bed today's standard is actually wider than what's actually being described here
So it sounds like he probably slept alone. He probably slept on the bed by himself and really beds really don't even change that much in
Width because even a queen bed is is typically 80 inches width as well
So a queen bed and a king bed are usually about the same width
His bed is about the same width, it's not that much off,
but the link is where we're seeing the big difference.
The queen bed's about 60, a king's 80, his is 162, okay?
So that's giant.
Now I was just trying to do this for my own sake,
but the average man today is about maybe 5'10".
So that's about 70 inches.
So, if you think about if a king bed is 80 inches and the average man is about 70 inches,
then that gives you about 87.5% of kind of a calculation.
So, I'm just making up some numbers here, but I'm just trying to get an idea of like,
what does this mean for this guy?
Then he would have been eleven point eight maybe eleven feet eight inches tall not necessarily point
But eleven feet eight inches tall. I don't know that he necessarily had the same percentages
You know, he could have been like Eliath maybe nine feet tall, but it's possible. Maybe he's even bigger
Maybe he literally was eleven feet tall. That is giant. I mean if he's eleven
Feet eight inches. He's almost just basically double the size of average men
Like he'd be almost as like double the height of an average man that is a giant that would be intimidating especially you know in times past
They don't have firearms the way that we have the day
They literally have to go out with sword and shield at best case scenario
Maybe a bow or a slingshot or something but again trying to kill some guy that's twice your size and
Possibly even athletic. We don't know exactly how athletic these guys were but
It seems like they're somewhat athletic because in today's world people when they start getting
really tall they become like very they lose some of their athleticism you know and I think it's
just because you know our genes and stuff aren't really designed to be that tall so when people
get to be these giant heights sometimes they're a little bit awkward maybe they'll lose a little
bit of their athletic ability but imagine someone being that tall and athletic that would just be
I mean, think about it, he's just walking up
and just setting it into the goal.
You know, like, that would be impossible to defend.
In today's standards, the tallest people are typically seven foot something.
I think in modern history, we've had people around eight foot, maybe about that height.
So that's about as tall as we typically have.
I think like Robert Wadlow is like one of the tallest people ever.
He was like eight foot something, I think.
So you know, in today's world, we don't have anybody that's up to nine or especially 11.
but it's not like that far fetched.
If you have people that are like eight foot today
and the Bible's bringing up people that are nine feet tall,
that's not like that far off.
It's not like the book of Enoch where it's saying they're 450 feet tall.
450 feet tall.
I don't think people really have no idea how tall that is.
I mean, that is like taller than the tallest buildings
that we have, like in the downtown areas.
I mean, imagine a guy walking around.
I mean, you couldn't even yell up to him
and he could hear you.
You know, that tall, the skyscraper,
skyscraper's walking around or something like that.
You know, that never happened.
That's fiction.
That's not real.
But I just wanted to give people some kind of a semblance of an idea.
Maybe this guy's 11 foot, maybe he's 9 foot,
I don't know, but it's probably in the same range as
Goliath and his brethren. That's kind of what numbers we're working with.
So when the Bible brings up giants, we don't want to watch these movies
where they're like trees or something or buildings.
That never happened, but they are still at least pretty tall.
You know, maybe double the size of a man, that would be how tall they were in the Bible.
Let's keep reading, it says in verse number 12,
which was called the Land of Giants.
Jair, the son of Manasseh,
took all the country of Argab under the coasts of Ghashurai
and Makathai, and called them after his own name,
Baishin Hevoth Jair, under this day.
And I gave Gilead and a maker.
And under the Rubenites, and under the Gadites,
I gave from Gilead, even under the river Arnann,
half the valley, and the border,
even under the river Jabek.
which is the border of the children of Ammon.
The plain also in Jordan and the coast thereof
from Kinnereth, even under the sea of the plain.
Even the salt sea under Ashdoth, Pisgah, eastward.
So we're dividing the land out
and just talking about how, you know, we killed Sihon.
We killed Beishan and we took all of this area and it's tons and tons of cities tons and tons of area
And it's basically if you think about it
It's kind of from the south portion of the Promised Land going up north all on the east side
So they're just kind of like on the east side from the south going up
They kind of just take this whole area and it's just basically on the doorstep of the Promised Land
It's right next to the Promised Land. It's just mostly geographically separated by
either rivers or the sea, or different, different water
is separating these two, you know, geographic locations.
So they're just basically on the other side of the water,
other side of the Jordan, other side of the sea,
just that whole region, that whole area.
So if you ever look at a map, it's just kind of like
that whole area, it's not the Promised Land,
it's basically just around and surrounding,
it's on the other side of.
And it gives it, according to the Bible,
to the Rubenites, the Gadites,
and the half tribe of Manasseh.
So Manasseh is kind of split in half.
Half of them are gonna inherit
on the other side of the Promised Land
and the other half is gonna actually take part
of the Promised Land.
Now, this is kind of an interesting thing
that he's bringing up
and I kind of wanna focus on it for a second,
but it's interesting how these groups
are just not going into the Promised Land.
Now, why, well, for a couple reasons, but I want to look at some of the history here
because I think the person that's representative of these tribes kind of shows a pattern of
what these people are like and kind of shows why these tribes are not entering in.
Go to Genesis chapter 35, go to Genesis chapter number 35, and we'll talk about the person
Reuben is a person the tribe is his descendants now Reuben as a person is
The firstborn he's the firstborn of Israel or Jacob
Jacob turns into Israel so the 12 tribes of Israel or the 12 tribes of the person Jacob who's renamed Israel by God
Reuben is his firstborn
now
I'm not saying, if you're a firstborn person, I'm not mad at you, and I'm not saying you're a bad person.
But consistently in the Bible, you see a pattern where the firstborns are often a bad person.
And it's kind of an interesting thing where you notice that the firstborn struggles,
the firstborn is often kind of a bad person in the Bible.
And, you know, we see here with Reuben, it's no exception.
Now, in Genesis chapter 35, look what it says in verse number 19.
And Rachel died and was buried in the way to Ephrath,
which is Bethlehem.
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave
that is the pillar of Rachel's grave under this day.
And Israel journeyed and spread his tent
beyond the tower of Edar.
So,
Jacob's wife dies, he's going out and burying her,
and he's journeying, he's spreading out.
And it says in verse 22,
and it came to pass when Israel dwelt in that land
that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah,
his father's concubine, Israel heard it.
Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
So Jacob is lost his wife.
Rachel is his favorite wife whether that's right or wrong. I don't know. I've never had two wives
So I have no idea what that's like. I always tell my wife. She's my favorite wife though. Okay, so I
Only have one it's a joke. All right guys
And I only want to have one but
Rachel's his favorite wife and nevertheless, even if it was Leah, he would be upset. It's his wife
So I'm losing his wife. You got to think about it. He's at a low point. Obviously. This is kind of a low point
He's down. He's lost somebody then he's traveling
Ruben comes in and takes advantage of his father
and disrespects his father and shames his father
by lying with Bilhah when his father's at a weak point,
when his father's away,
when his father's not there to defend the family.
And you know, this is just showing
that Ruben's a very selfish person.
Ruben's a very selfish person, and he's attacking his father showing that he's an evil person and a wicked person.
And of course, God's going to judge him for that.
Go if you would to chapter 49 now.
And it's also a public humiliation because the Bible says Israel heard it.
Well, how did he hear it?
Someone told him so meaning not only this guy
Disrespect his father attack his father do evil and his father. It's a public thing
It's publicly shaming his father
And you know what what a terrible thing when children are publicly shaming their father doing weird stuff gross stuff
Like this laying with this his father's concubine, you know, that's that's a terrible thing now
We don't know exactly how Israel dealt with it at the time, but later in life when he's on his deathbed
We at least know he addresses it now.
And he brings it up in chapter 49 verse 3.
and the excellency of power.
You know, there's something special about firstborns.
Firstborns, according to Jacob, again,
that they're the might, they're the beginning of your strength,
they're your excellency of dignity.
So it's supposed to be honor, it's supposed to be respect,
it's supposed to be someone that's, you know,
carrying the family name.
You know, the firstborn male, according to the Bible,
is supposed to get a double portion, a double inheritance.
You know, it's supposed to be something
that you're supposed to take with pride
and you're supposed to honor your parents
and honor your father and do a good job.
And that's who he's supposed to be.
But verse four, he's unstable as water.
Thou shalt not excel because thou wentest up
to thy father's bed.
Then defile this, thou it.
He went up to my couch.
So according to the Bible even though he's supposed to be the strength
He's supposed to be the excellency. He's supposed to be the one that's dignified
You know what? He's end up just destroying his family lineage and destroying his heritage and destroying his opportunity
He's unstable as water and of course what does water do?
It just it just keeps going to the lowest common denominator if you think about it water just is just a
Gonna do whatever gravity is telling it to do
And it's just going to find some way to just keep getting lower and lower and lower and lower and really it's just not a stable thing.
It doesn't actually hold its own form. It just goes to the will of everything else.
If you have a cup, water is going to be in the shape of a cup because it's just holding that position.
Whatever shape container it's in, it's going to be in that shape because water is subject to its environment.
Water is going to be the shape of its environment water is going to do with everything else is telling it to do and if the cup as a whole
It's going to spring out and she's going to keep getting lower and lower and lower because water itself isn't going to have any form
And he's saying this is what he's like. This is a guy who's just going to be the shape of his environment
He's going to do what other people tell him to do. He just succumbs to peer pressure
So comes to environment succumbs other people. He's not strong. He's not steadfast. He's not mighty
He's not going to hold his own form. He's just going to condescent
in and just keep going lower and lower and lower.
And as a result, he's not gonna be successful.
You know, successful men have to be willing
to overcome their environment, overcome their container,
overcome the peer pressures of this life,
and take a bold stand and say,
you know what, I'm not just gonna keep lowering myself.
You know what, if everybody else keeps lowering themselves,
I'm not.
Hey, you know, we can live in a wicked generation
and you can still be a righteous person.
You don't have to you don't have to go down with everybody else, but you know what waters is going to keep going down with everybody else
It's not going to hold its form. It's just going to be subject to everybody else
So when you see this pattern in Reuben, I think
Again, that doesn't mean that everybody in Reuben's tribe is destined to be a bad person or destined to have this this
Fortelling, but we see that this kind of resembles what Reuben is like in the future where he's a selfish person
and he's gonna dishonor his father.
Now, if you go to,
I wanna go to Numbers 32,
go to Numbers 32,
we'll actually hear the story of Reuben.
So again, we're just kind of getting the retelling,
but we'll go back and get some of the details
to remind ourselves what was actually happening
in this story.
But in Numbers 32,
This is where the Bible actually tells us the story of what happened look at verse 1 now the children of Rubin and the children of
Gad had a very great multitude of cattle and when they saw the land of jaser and the land of gilead
That behold the place was a place for cattle the children of Gad and the children of Rubin came and spake and a Moses and to
Eleazar the priest and under the princes of the congregation saying adder off and Diabon and jaser Nimrah and Heshbon and lea Lee
and she bam in Ebo and beyond, even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation
Israel is a land for cattle.
My servants have cattle.
Wherefore said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto
thy servants for possession, and bring us not over Jordan."
So they're on the precipice of the Promised Land.
They've conquered Og and Sihon, and they say, hey, this land's good for cattle.
Just make sense. Just put us here. We're not even go with you. We're done. We're done fighting
We don't want any of the promised land. We're good to go and Moses said on the children of God and the children of Ruben
Shall your brethren go to war and shall ye sit here and
Wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land with the Lord
Have given them
Thus did your fathers when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land
He's saying
Hey, what are you talking about you guys are just gonna sit here and enjoy and just have fun because look
It's not like these two tribes Ruben and Gad conquered this land by themselves. Everybody conquered the land
Then they're just being selfish to just say you know, we'll just take the land
We got it y'all go have fun y'all go fight you cross the river you cross you keep battling you keep doing stuff as for us
We just want to sit here. We want to have our cake and eat it too. And again, what is this? It's just selfish
It's just selfish for you to say we're going to take this land, you guys go, and you have
fun over there, you guys fight, and notice what is Moses' attitude.
He's saying in verse 7 that they're discouraging the heart of the children of Israel.
He says it's exactly like what your fathers did when we came up to the Promised Land and
we sent spies in and the spies came out and gave an evil report and would not want to
go and fight and didn't want to go into the Promised Land and it caused all of the children
of Israel to not go into the Promised Land.
And he says in verse nine,
And the Lord's anger was kindled the same time and he swear
saying, surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt from
twenty years old and upward shall see the land which I swear
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, because they have
not wholly followed me.
Said Caleb, the son of Japhuni, the kenozite, and Joshua, the
son of none, for they have wholly followed the Lord.
And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel and he made
them wander the wilderness forty years until all the
generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was
And behold, year risen up in your father's stead an increase of sinful men
to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.
He's saying, your fathers didn't want to fight and so I just killed all of them in the wilderness.
And now we're just going to repeat again.
You don't want to go into the Promised Land again?
You don't want to fight again?
Well then, if you do that, I'm just going to kill everybody again.
We'll just keep repeating this process.
You don't want to go fight, fine,
then I'll just make you wander the wilderness again.
You won't even get this land,
and you're just going to end up dying, perishing in this land.
And notice, they're an increase of sinful men.
They say they've risen up in their father's stead,
an increase of sinful men,
and they're bringing what?
Potentially the fierce anger of the Lord again,
towards all of them.
You know, it's a wicked thing to not want to fight.
When your brethren are fighting and you don't want to fight and what does God say?
Hey, when you want to be like that then I'm just gonna waste your entire generation and you're gonna accomplish nothing
And I'll just wait for another generation to come up in your step now
We can make a lot of application out of this. You know we as God's people should always make sure that we're fighting and
That we're not giving up and just just calling it quits
Just going and retiring, just going and just enjoying ours while everybody else is fighting.
We could look at this in lots of different ways.
What would be some ways that we could look at this?
Well, let's just take it like in a specific way.
You know, when you start a church, there's a lot of battling and a lot of fighting to grow a church.
You know, to take a church that's just starting in a house or starting with a few people
and then going through the seasons of growing and bringing people in
and going through all the different battles and getting buildings and doing all this stuff,
it's hard work to take a small group of people and turn it into 100 people.
It's really hard. It's hard to start a church. It's hard to get people bringing in.
It's hard to grow to 50. It's hard to grow to 75. It's hard to grow to 100.
Then once you get to 100 it's hard to keep growing and getting bigger and bigger and bigger
But you know what sometimes you get to a point. Oh now we're running 200
It'd be easy to just call it quits and just let everybody else
You know we started a church in Oklahoma City
Anchor Baptist Church now Pastor Dylan Oz, you know for us like we have a good-sized church
We have a building we have things. I mean we could actually coast if we wanted to
We could totally coast, but you know who can't coast is someone like anchor Baptist church. It's not running a huge church
I mean he's got to be working hard being diligent bringing people in and they got to grow you can't coast when you're running 30
Because look you're always losing people and boy when you're losing people at that size
You got to be bringing them in and so you're gonna have to he's gonna have to he's gonna have to fight and work
What if we just kind of just we're coasting and we're just like yeah, you fight the battles now pastor Oz
You preach the hard sermons you reach people you do the missions trip you do all the different things
But we're just we're just we're kind of enjoying
You know we got our people. We got our stuff. We're just gonna go on easy mode
We're just gonna enjoy our wives and enjoy our land and enjoy our cattle
And we're just gonna kind of roll back and we don't want to fight the battles anymore. You fight them
You do you know that's wicked
We should come alongside him and other churches and say you know what we're gonna go and we're gonna bust through Oklahoma City for you, too
And we're going to come alongside you and we're going to fight.
We're not going to inherit it.
It's not going to be ours.
It's not our church.
It's your church, but we're not going to leave you hanging.
We, we, yeah, we got our land and we got our cattle and stuff.
But you know what, we want to go over into your promised land area too.
And we want to conquer with you and come alongside you and fight with you and
not give up on our church plans and give up on the works that we've done.
We want to fight with them.
And we want to keep going because you know what? The battle is not over.
The battle is over when we die and go to heaven.
That's when the battle is over.
You know, we could give up on other churches by just not preaching hot sermons anymore.
We could just say hey, you know what I'm done preaching its faggots. I'm done preaching on the death penalty
I'm done preaching on the Jews. I'm done preaching on the synagogue of Satan
I'm done preaching on drunkenness and fornication and adultery and divorce and remarriage
And I'm done pissing people off and I'm done preaching the hard truths of the Bible
I just want to preach something that Psalm 23 for me
Psalm 23 for me and you know, we're gonna turn Psalm 23
into a seven part series.
We're gonna just do one verse at a time.
It's a 20 minute sermon.
We're gonna pump up the music.
We're gonna get more special music.
We're gonna make everybody feel special
and we're gonna get everybody here
just have a little special music
and then we're gonna start a little Sunday school
and a Bible college and we're just gonna start coasting
because we just really like it.
And you know, when you're big,
it's easier to draw more people.
Hey, if you're big and then you start a Bible college,
you know what you can do?
You just start sucking everybody out
of all the other churches just to come to your church
because you're just bigger.
And you're just coasting and you're just having fun and look we're having cattle over here
And we're just having you're out there battling
You know you're out having to cross the Jordan River and fight giants and fight all this well
You know what America is going to hell in a handbasket
How dare you just sit there and barbecue and just have fun while the whole world is going to hell in a handbasket
Well, you have politicians like Ted Cruz getting up saying stop attacking pedophiles
When you have all these different false religions, when you talk about the Catholics and the
Episcopalians and all the Calvinists and all your John MacArthur fans, all teaching,
repent of your sins, and lordship salvation and workspace salvation, no, let's join
hands with them.
Let's join hands with the churches that are best buds with liberal, Democrat, Hindu politicians.
Right?
That's what we need to do.
We need to just compromise and get so weak and so watered down, well, but you know what?
and water them down too, I like this church.
No, you know, it's wicked to withdraw from your brethren
and to stop fighting and to stop preaching hard
and stop doing what's right.
You know what, we can't just sit over here
and enjoy this side of Jordan.
We need to keep fighting even if it's not our land,
even if it's not our area.
You know, I love Texas and I'm gonna fight for Texas,
but you know what, we need to fight for Oklahoma.
We need to fight for Arizona, we need to fight for Florida,
we need to fight for California, we need to fight for Canada,
we need to fight for Mexico, we need to fight for the Bahamas,
we need to fight for the Philippines, we need to fight for all over this world.
You know, there's flags up here that have nothing to do with Texas.
You know, we're fighting for God's people and we're fighting this evil culture today
and I don't care how far you're going to drag me out there,
I'm ready to slay another giant.
I'm ready to kill another giant and I'm ready to keep preaching and you know what I'm gonna quit when I'm dead
That's when I'm gonna quit
I'm not gonna sit here and be selfish and just say well. I got mine. So I'm good now. I'm gonna back off
I'm done preaching. I'm done pissing people off. You know what? I'm never gonna be done pissing people off
I could quit pastoring and I'll still piss people off
I've never been good at it
I just try to live my life and people get mad at me
for just existing, and you know what?
I'm done trying to make people be happy with me.
It's never gonna work.
So, you know, and people, honestly,
they don't even like you when you try to appease them.
They like you being yourself anyways.
Just be yourself, and myself is somebody that likes to fight.
And you know what, men are designed to fight,
not to go and just live on some ranch
with Reuben and Gad accomplishing nothing for anybody.
You know, we're in this life to fight. There's a real battle raging. I don't know if you've been in America lately
It's decaying at the seams
It's being destroyed everywhere. There's wickedness everywhere. It's being infiltrated with Hinduism
It's being infiltrated with Islam. It's of course been taken over by the Jews
It's been overrun by Catholics and Jews in our government
We have so much Zionism, and look, the boomers seem like a whole generation that's just like
Reuben and Gad that just said, you know what, we don't really want to fight anymore.
We don't want to do these kind of battles.
And so God's just like, well, I'm just waiting for all y'all to die so I can bring up another
generation that'll fight.
But wouldn't God, we wouldn't follow in their footsteps and say, hey, we want to coast too.
No, no, no, we want to keep fighting.
And I love my Zoomers too.
You know, I'm not a Zoomer.
I think I'm Gen Z, I don't know what I am,
but you know, hey, I like the younger generation
and I want to teach them how to fight.
We should be like the Joshua's and Caleb's and say,
hey, all of my generation, you know, died,
but I'm still ready for the young people to come with me
and we're gonna inherit the Promised Land
and we're gonna fight and we're gonna conquer these giants
and we're not gonna give up.
And I don't care if I've already gotten mine,
I want you to get yours.
That's the right attitude and look if you decide to quit if you decide to give up if you decide
Hey, I'm done fighting and all the drama and whatever
I can't wait to go back on the other side of Jordan and just raise my little cattle
Well, I got a warning for you and so does God God has a warning for you
Let's keep reading verse 20 and Moses said of them if you will do this thing
If you'll go armed before the Lord to the war and we'll go out all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord
until it's driven out his enemies from before him and the land be some dude before the Lord,
then afterward you shall return to be guiltless before the Lord and before Israel
and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
But if you will not do so,
behold, you have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will find you out.
Oh, no, no, Pastor, I'm done fighting.
I want to go and just enjoy it.
Well, guess what?
God will find you anyways, and you won't enjoy anyways.
There is no enjoyment by quitting and giving up and being a coward and being lukewarm. No, no, you need to stay red hot
You need to stay fire breathing. You need to just say, you know what?
I'm gonna go out there and conquer for my brethren's sake not just for my sake
I go out and preach the gospel and rip for my brethren's sake not just for my sake, you know
I'm not I'm never gonna drink alcohol again. I'm done
But you know what I scream and yell about alcohol so that other people won't drink alcohol
I'm never gonna get a tattoo, but I scream and yell so the kids in this room won't be an idiot and get a tattoo!
I'm never gonna get divorced and my wife's never gonna divorce me
But you know what? I'm screaming and yelling so that you won't get divorced and that your kids will take marriage seriously
You know what? I'm not necessarily so worried about all these extreme things that are happening
You know what? I'm worried about other people
That's why I'm yelling and screaming and foaming at the mouth and our society's so weird that when I say it
It's actually extreme
I mean, it's weird that you have to say that we should not like pedophiles in our country
anymore.
That is weird, strange, it's extreme.
Our culture is extreme, not the Word of God.
You know, we need to be willing to fight and we don't want to be like Reuben and Gad.
And you know, if you read this story, it's really interesting because Reuben and Gad
are the ones that are saying they don't want to go.
That you know that tells me that when you're a weak and you're a coward and you make bad decisions
You cause other people to make bad decisions too. It's not even half of Manassee's idea to do it
Here's another thing I learned is that just because you're all related doesn't mean you're all gonna want to serve God the same
Half of Manassee wants to serve God and the other half doesn't
You know, there's all kinds of different lessons that we can learn from this particular story
And you know what half of Manassee wants to serve God the other half does it
Well, you know what you be the half that goes into the Promised Land
Why would you want to wander for 40 years and go through all this pain and suffering and have to fight and not get
In here at the promised land you might as well if you're gonna go through all that and here at the promised land as well
And you know what you're gonna fight battles no matter what you might as well fight the Lord's battles and the ones that he
Told you and if you don't
Be sure your sin will find you out
You know what the Bible saying the Bible saying it's a sin not to go fight
It's a sin to not go with your brethren. It's a sin to not keep going
That's not that's not my opinion. That's God's opinion and God is giving a strict warning here
Go to Numbers chapter 14 go back. You know some people have this idea like well, that's not my battle
I don't need to get involved wrong
You know it's the Lord's battle and he wants us to get involved
If it's the Lord's battle, we should be involved and we should fight the Lord's enemies
even if they're not my personal enemy.
Oh, what did this sodomite do to you? Nothing, but he's a sodomite
and it's just a reproach unto God and His creation and everything holy and righteous and good and normal and kind
and so he should just be put to death.
I don't care if he was nice to me.
Oh, but you know, you don't have anything to do with that.
No, no, I don't care.
It's the Lord's battle and we fight it.
Oh, what did this Catholic do to you?
What did this Calvinist do to you?
Nothing.
But you know what?
They're preaching a false gospel and you know what?
That's the Lord's battle and I'm going to engage in that battle
and I'm going to fight it.
Oh, you don't have a church here, you don't have a state here, but I still care about
God's people in every part of this world, and we should fight, and we should war, and
we should be willing to do what's right no matter who's involved, no matter if I get
personal gain or not, no matter if it helps me or not, we should fight for God's people.
and it's wrong to not stick up for the man of God
or to fight with your brethren.
Numbers chapter 14, look at verse two,
and all the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron,
and the whole congregation said unto them,
would God that we had died in the land of Egypt
or would God we had died in this wilderness?
And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land
to fall by the sword,
that our wives and their children should be a prey,
we're not better for us to return into Egypt.
and they said, one to another, let us make a captain
and let us return in Egypt.
So they want to overthrow the leadership.
They want to get a new leader.
They want to completely rebel.
Look, what has Moses done against these people?
Moses has only done good, only helped them.
They want to overthrow them.
They want to get rid of them.
They want to make a captain go back to Egypt
that they were slaves in literally
and they're attacking Moses and Aaron.
Now look at verse 6, and Joshua, the Son of Nun, did they attack Joshua?
Did they bring up Joshua? Is this Joshua's direct fight? No.
But Joshua, it says, and Joshua, the Son of Nun and Caleb the Son of Jefouni,
which were of them that searched the land and rent their clothes, and they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying,
the land which we pass through to search it is an exceeding good land.
If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land which floweth with milk and honey, only rebel not ye against the Lord.
Neither fear ye the people of the land, for they are bread for us, their defenses departed from them, and the Lord is with us, fear them not.
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones, and the glory of the Lord appeared.
So it's like, look, Joshua and Caleb.
They see their leaders getting attacked. They see Moses and Aaron being falsely accused and they stand up and they say hey
No, no the Lord's with us. We shouldn't have this attitude why they're fighting on their brethren's we have they shouldn't just be like
Well, this is Moses and Aaron's issue. Let's let's just let's just let them deal with it
You guys you guys figure out the solution you guys answer their questions you guys figure out what to say
No, no, they said hey, this isn't right
We need to make sure to go ahead and fight this battle. No, we need God is with us
This is what right decision, you know, that's what a leader does is he just does what's right?
Even if no one else is prompting him to do it and he defends his leaders
Go over to 2nd Timothy chapter 4 go to 2nd Timothy chapter 4
You don't have to be directly involved in a fight or directly profiting from a fight to enter into the battle arena
Now as we've been reading this entire chapter and I'm sorry the entire book
we realized that there's some battles that God's saying don't get involved in, right?
Don't fight Moab. Don't fight Ammon. Don't fight those kind of people.
But you know what? When it's Scion, fight them. Slay them, kill them. When it's Og, King of Beishan,
destroy them. And you know what? We should never desert our brethren. We should fight with them.
Second Timothy chapter number four, look at verse 16.
At my first answer, no man stood with me, but all men forsook me.
I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
Why would the Apostle Paul have to say, hey, don't punish these people if they didn't do anything wrong?
Look, not defending Paul was wrong.
Not defending Moses and Aaron is wrong.
Not going and fighting with the other tribes is a sin and be sure your sin will find you
out.
It is wrong to withdraw from the man of God.
It's wrong to not fight with your brethren against the enemies of the Lord.
Look at 2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 15.
2nd Timothy chapter 1 verse 15.
that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me
of whom are by jealous and homogenies.
The Lord give mercy on the house of Onesiferous,
for he off refreshed me and was not ashamed of my shame."
So saying, look, everybody of this whole group
is turned against me and is fighting against me.
But he's like, you know what?
I'm praying that God gives mercy to this other guy,
Onesiferous, because he refreshed me,
and notice this.
was not ashamed of my chain.
Paul had some low moments in his life.
Paul had some unpopular moments in his life.
And you know what, onesipherous, he didn't give up on Paul.
He liked Paul even when he was in his low spots,
whereas other these fair weather Christians,
fair weather friends, they all turned
against the apostle Paul when he's at a low point.
And you know what, that's wrong, it's wrong to turn on people at a low point, it's wrong
to not go fight with them in the battle, it's wrong to give up, you know what it is, it's
selfish.
And we have a lot of selfish people today that don't want to fight, don't want to get in
the battle.
You know how many Christians know that the Jews are the synagogue of Satan but they don't
want to fight that battle?
It's wrong.
It's wrong to stop preaching what the Bible says.
How many of them know that fags should be put to death and they won't preach it?
They won't bring it up.
They hide their sermons.
They don't preach Leviticus 2013.
They don't preach Genesis chapter 19.
They don't preach Judges chapter 19.
In fact, I heard a fundamental Baptist preacher get up and say, you shouldn't even read Judges
19 to the family.
He said it would be like it would ruin the family camp if you're reading Genesis 19
Then he went back to his church and said the same thing on a Sunday morning
Saying that he shouldn't re-judge his 19 to his church or something like that. That's giving up on
Your brethren that are fighting this real battle
Sorry that the ten people that go to your church, the fags don't care about you.
But you know what, they actually care about our church, and we're still in real battles,
and we're still going through lawsuits, and we're still getting sued and attacked and
protested and harassed.
Sorry that you're not, because nobody cares about you and you're accomplishing nothing,
but you know what, you should be fighting this battle.
What does it say in Judges chapter 19?
It says those people that wouldn't go up to battle, God says, hey, they're worthy of death,
Be sure your sin will find you out.
I don't like the hard preaching.
I don't like to fight with others.
You know what?
You just get in the battle and you just keep fighting.
It doesn't matter if you're going to be personally benefited.
You know what?
We should fight as a team.
When you are weak and cowardly and selfish,
you cause other people to become weak, cowardly and selfish with you.
You know and I'll warn you if you go to a church where the pastor is weak cowardly and selfish you will become weak cowardly and selfish
Like people like priests, you know be careful you listen to because you might turn into them
You might turn into Alex Jones if you listen to too much of it
We might be wearing a tin full of hat
You might turn too much into a Republican if you listen to them
And you know what the Republicans have been listening to the Democrats a lot so they turn into them
And the Democrats were listening to Satan.
That's why they turned to them, okay?
You have to understand, you have to be careful
you're listening to.
That's why it's important to listen to this every day
so you can come more like Christ.
But I'm telling you, you go to a church,
I mean, people that are not reading the Bible
and they're just listening to bad preaching,
they'll turn into a Zionist just like their pastor.
A pre-Tripper like their pastor.
A coward like their pastor.
A positive only person like their pastor.
Someone that doesn't know what the Bible says
like their pastor.
Just a commentary like their pastor.
I mean, isn't it weird?
I mean, it's weird when people like Tyler Baker,
who leaves Faithful or Baptist Church,
ends up becoming a full-blown Calvinist.
And it's whole church with how does the whole church turn into Calvinist because they're just following the guy
They're listening to they're just he just turns into whatever he maybe can turn into a Pentecostal
I don't know and they would still follow him. I mean who knows what people will do you be careful who you're listening to
You know, this is interesting phenomenon that I've noticed that why he's turning to who their husbands are
I've seen families where all the daughters are kind of the same they marry different husbands
And then they all just end up being like their husband or that be liberal leftist weird gross
What I mean just smart whatever it's interesting how they just keep reflecting their husband, you know be careful. You're listening to
Be careful what you're you're feeding yourself, and you know you just hang out with Ruben and got too much
You might be hanging out with them
Here's another lesson we should learn is that children
You know, and fathers are not necessarily going to be reciprocating as far as their sins are concerned.
You know, Reuben is wicked and evil, that doesn't mean that Israel and Jacob is wicked and evil.
Reuben is just choosing to make bad decisions.
You know who's also at first born?
Manasseh.
It's interesting that Manasseh is at first born, Reuben's at first born,
and both of them are some of the people that are not entering into the Promised Land.
that are not going to be successful and you have to understand that God gives us this thing called free will and
As parents, you know, we should be good parents as children
We should be good parents or good children and we should listen to our parents
but at the end of the day our standard is this book and
everybody has free will and
Ruben just because he's the firstborn and raised by Jacob raised by you so doesn't mean he's gonna be a good person
He chose to be wicked. He chose to be selfish
And you know what? He's going to be punished for that.
And everybody's going to be punished for the decisions that they make.
Look at verse 1.
The Word of the Lord came to me again saying,
What mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel,
saying the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Now, again, this is just my...
understanding of kind of what the context here is the children of Israel are using this proverb, but it's wrong
And God's like calling them out saying you shouldn't use this proverb. That's what it's saying
What is the proverb that the the fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge?
Meaning they're nervous they're saying oh man dad ate a sour grape. That's gonna negatively affect me
What is the context? It's saying like oh
Children are just doomed if their parents are bad if the parents make a bad decision or the parents do something wrong
Or the parents are messed up then the children are screwed the children are doomed
Basically just kind of Calvinism in a sense if you think about it that the children don't have an opportunity to be better than the parents
And that you blame all the negative things that happen to you
on your parents. And boy is that a new thing under the sun or is that always the case
where children blame their parents for their bad problems.
You know people want to say like oh man
our nation sucks because of boomers. Maybe your nation sucks because you suck.
And look I'm not like
Pro any generation the last few because they've all been a little bit rough
But let me say something we need to take accountability for our actions and what we do and not just blame our parents and act like oh
The boomers are the reason why America's bad
Now the reason why America's bad is because you won't go to a good church because you're going into Kenneth Copeland's church
Because you're going to T.D. Jake's church because you're not going to church because you just listen to podcasts because you vote for Ted Cruz or something
You know, that's the reason why our country is bad
Because if you would be good, if you would actually take some responsibility and go to a good church,
we wouldn't have these problems.
We need to take responsibility for our own actions and not blame everybody else and blame the previous generations.
You know verse three as I live say the Lord God
He shall not have occasion anymore to use this proverb in Israel now what God is saying is like you keep saying this
But pretty soon. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna judge and then no one's gonna be able to say this because everybody's gonna be judged
The way that they're responsible for their actions, you know, and it won't it will be clear
Now I'm not read for the sake of time
I'm not gonna read this whole passage
But I want to skip down a little bit and I just want to get to the the conclusion of it because he basically just says hey when the
father does what's right
He's gonna live when the son does what's wrong. He's gonna die and vice versa
It doesn't matter if the father was super wicked and evil and the son was good or vice versa
Each person can be punished according to their own
Sins in fact, let's actually get a couple of instances of what these are like. Okay?
He says in verse 10 if you begin a son that is a robber
So this is a dad that's good, a dad that's a godly guy,
does what's right, follows all God's commandments,
but then he has a son that's a robber, a shatter of blood,
so he's a murderer and a thief,
and that doeth the like to any of these things,
and doeth not any of those duties.
But had eaten upon the mountains, so he's like into false religion, defiled his neighbor's wife,
committed adultery, had oppressed the poor and needy, had spoiled by violence,
had not restored the pledge, and had lifted up his eyes to the idol, so he's into idolatry,
and half committed abomination. You know what abomination is? Everything in Leviticus basically.
Leviticus chapter 20 specifically.
You know, all these weird, gross, perverted, indescribable evils.
Those are the abominations.
They say, this guy's a murderer and a thief and committing abomination and into drugs
and into idolatry and false religion.
I mean, how does this happen?
Because everybody has free will.
He says, even if he does that, then it says in verse 13,
he shall surely die, his blood shall be upon him.
Now, again, for sake of time, look what it says, skipping down a little bit.
Look at verse 20.
What is God's view everybody is responsible for their own actions and you know if you read this chat read this whole chapter
Please read it a couple times one dad the dads is like awesome does everything right and the Sun is just evil beyond measure and
Then vice versa and then God's uses constantly flipping back and forth
Why because this is reality and when you read the Bible this is constantly happening where you have just constantly just like
Upside down backwards things you have
Kids are way better than their parents,
and then you have kids that are way worse
than their parents, and it's flipping back and forth,
and it's just this common thing.
Why? Because it's called free will.
And, you know, it's horrible to see, it's not fun,
but it all gives us a glimpse of how God's feeling,
because if God were to look down from heaven,
you know what he sees?
He sees a bunch of his children,
and even, of course, his creation,
just constantly committing murder, and adultery,
and just idolatry, and evil,
and it's breaking his heart all the time.
to watch kids rebel and do whatever.
But you know what, God is not going to punish people
for the sins of the parents or the sins of the children.
He punishes them for their own sin.
Why? Because children turn out bad because they're bad
and parents turn out bad because they're bad
and everybody has an opportunity to serve God on their own
and we need to emphasize for He will.
Don't be like Reuben.
Go if you would back to our passage.
Go back to the January 3rd.
Look.
Reuben screwed up. Reuben was selfish. Reuben committed adultery with his father's wife,
which is not only adultery, it's abomination according to the Bible.
And he's shaming his father and doing evil, and Reuben's going to be severely punished as a result of that.
But you know, that doesn't mean Jacob's bad or Israel is bad,
and it doesn't mean that Israel isn't going to inherit the Promised Land.
It's that Reuben's not going to inherit the Promised Land.
Reuben doesn't get to go into the promised land.
Reuben doesn't get to inherit for his selfish attitude and selfish actions.
But the children of Israel are going to enter into the promised land.
And, you know, we need to make sure that we're not being selfish
and that we're making the decisions that we need to make for ourselves.
God is going to judge us according to our works,
not what the people around us are doing.
And of course, people that are not lazy like this.
People that are lazy don't like this.
Nepotism, you know, kids want to just basically inherit the easy life from their parents,
but you know what? God's going to hold you responsible for your actions and your works.
There's no free ride.
Look what it says in verse 18.
And I commanded you at this time saying,
the Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it,
ye shall pass over arm before your brethren,
the children of Israel, all that are meat for the war.
But your wives and your little ones in your cattle,
for I know that you have much cattle,
shall abide in your cities, which I have given you.
Until the Lord hath given rest under your brethren,
as well as unto you.
And until they also possess the land,
which the Lord your God hath given them beyond Jordan,
and then shall you return every man unto his possession,
which I have given you.
You know, another tidbit, sometimes the ladies have to stay behind while the men go out to battle.
And that's just the reality, you know, it's not like Wakanda, where all the women are going out to battle, you know, doesn't exist, ladies.
You know, sometimes that's your battles with the kids and the home and doing all that, guiding the house.
It's an important job, we need it, it's just a different job.
Verse 21.
And I commanded Joshua at that time saying,
Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God
have done unto these two kings.
So shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms
whither they'll pass us.
You shall not fear them.
For the Lord your God, he shall fight for you.
Notice again, we should let God win our battles for us.
You know, as long as we just trust in God
and follow his commandments and do what's right,
God will fight for us.
God will fight our battles for us.
But we have to at least put our faith and our trust in him and allow him to fight our battles for us
You know not taking things in our own hands not having our own wisdom
Just trusting the Lord going where he wants us to go doing what he wants us to do
And you know we shouldn't be a violent people of course
Catholics and other religions want to you know take over the country by force
In history, in times past, Catholics would tell you,
I'm gonna kill you if you don't become Catholic.
You know, that's the wrong way.
That's not how we should try to get people
to convert to Christianity.
And at the end of the day, if sincere faith is what saves you,
why would we want to force people to become Christian
when they don't even believe in it?
They don't even mean it.
We don't want people to be forced to be Christian.
We want them to choose to be Christian.
Just like we don't want wives to be forced to marry us.
We want them to choose to marry us.
And of course, you know, with God it's a similar way that, you know, we go out and we preach the Gospel and we let those that choose life come into our ranks.
Verse 23,
Oh, Lord God, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand for what God is there in heaven or on earth
That can do according to thy works and according to thy might. I pray thee, let me go over and see the good land
That is beyond Jordan that goodly mountain and Lebanon, but the Lord is wroth with me for your sakes and would not hear me
And the Lord said to me let it suffice thee
Speak no more unto me of this matter. Now, I don't know exactly verse 26 is interesting because he's just like let it suffice
Then I don't even know what he brought up
I'm just guessing what he's saying is just everything that's happened, right?
You got to leave the children of Israel out of wilderness or out of Egypt.
You got to see a lot of mighty works.
You got to see what I showed you.
Let that suffice you, but don't bring it up again.
Hey, here's a good lesson, kids. When your dad says no, don't ask again.
When your mom says no, don't ask again.
Let it suffice all the things they have done for you.
Hey, can I have this candy bar? No, don't bring it up again. Don't ask dad. Don't like ask the other parent
Let it suffice thee and just hey, they said no move on. Hey, can we do this fun thing? Not today
Doesn't mean you're not gonna do fun stuff. You know, we should be willing to accept no in our lives
Sometimes the answers no, you know wives
Sometimes your husband's going to have to say,
no, let it suffice thee.
You know, men, sometimes we're going to have to be told,
no, from our boss or from other people in our lives
or whatever.
Hey, maybe the Bible's telling us, no,
we just need to say, okay, God,
and just let the good things that He does for us
and what do we have in our life?
We need to accept it and just say, okay,
sometimes we have to accept, no.
Now, it says in verse 27,
Get thee up to the top of Pisgah and lift up thine eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward and behold
It with thine eyes for thou shalt not go over this Jordan
But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him for he should go over before this people and he should cause them to inherit
The land which thou shalt see so we bowed in the valley over against
Beth P. R. So we're getting we're getting this reminder of why we're here. What's going on the transition of leadership
He's reminding them. Hey, some of y'all tried to give up
But we nipped that in the bud.
You're not gonna give up, you're gonna go armed with us.
And he's saying, I'm not gonna go.
God told me I can't go.
He even told me I'm not even allowed to ask about it again.
I'm not allowed to bring it up.
Let's just get on Joshua's program.
Joshua's our guy, Joshua's gonna do it,
and we're just gonna get behind him
or gonna rally behind him.
And you know what?
Sometimes we have to realize
we're not gonna get to do everything.
We're not gonna accomplish everything that we want.
And sometimes we just have to encourage
other people that are gonna get to do it.
I can't do everything, you know, and in my mind I still feel like a teenager, but, you know, I'm getting older.
And I know there's people much older than me, and, you know, I get it.
But I'm just saying, like, I can tell, hey, I'm already getting to a point where I'm not going to accomplish all the things that I wanted.
I'm not going to do everything that I want. I can't do everything that I want.
But if someone else can, instead of being negative on them, we should encourage them to be able to accomplish it.
You know, I mean I try to do a lot of stuff. I try to go on a lot of missions trip
I try to do a lot of things, but I can't do everything. I can't go to every soul anytime. That's for sure. I
Can't go on every missions trip, you know brother Diego told me he's like hey
I want to go to Mexico City. He was like planning this of this trip
I just can't make it.
I mean, my work schedule and everything else,
like I just can't do everything.
But instead of being like, well, I can't go,
so you can't go or I can't support you.
It's like, no, let's encourage Brother Diego
and let's encourage other people to go on the trip.
And you know what, people gave me a great report
that the trip went really well.
Brother Diego did a good job.
I'm also not like secretly hoping in my heart
that they're like, oh, he kind of sucked.
I like it when you lead.
No, no, I hope that they're like, man,
Brother Diego did an awesome job.
I like him.
You know, we should get on Joshua's program
and be like, hey, let's go.
You know, I couldn't go on the cruise mission trip.
Vanessa's fur went on the cruise mission trip
and other people went with him.
And you know what?
We should encourage him when he's going out.
You know, there's gonna be other people.
Hey, when I'm not here and other people have to preach,
I'm not kind of hoping like secretly
that they preach a bad sermon.
I'm hoping they preach a good sermon.
I don't want to come back and crack skulls.
I want to come back and just, you know,
return back to normal business, you know?
I hope the people are gonna be like,
it was a great sermon.
That's why I love when Pastor Oz would preach for us
because he always preached really good sermons.
And I always felt really comfortable.
I was really excited to let him take over
and people were liked hearing him preach.
Sometimes he would blow us up in the media,
but that's what you get.
But he wasn't trying and that's what I liked about him.
He just wanted to preach what the Bible says
and help people know.
I mean, the things that are radical, I said.
He was saying it like normal.
People just couldn't handle a white guy screaming
normal stuff or whatever.
He just looks a little too German or something.
I don't know.
But hey, you know, maybe you won't accomplish all of the goals you had.
Maybe you're not going to save as much money as you wanted to save.
Okay, well, encourage your children to save more money.
Have a better retirement for you, have a better career than you.
Maybe even have a better church or build a better church than you.
Instead of being down on the youth, we should come alongside the youth
and encourage them to take the baton and do more and get on their team.
And hey, even if I don't personally benefit from this stuff, let's just help them.
Instead of being selfish, let us not be a Reuben, let us not be a Gaddite, let us not be the bad half of Manassee,
where we're just being selfish and caring about ours and getting ours,
but let's encourage our brethren, encouraging the youth, encouraging the Joshua's of the next generation,
and helping them to inherit the Promised Land, helping them to win their battles, helping them to be successful,
because you know what? The fight in the battle is the Lord's and we're all on his team.
And it's not about us and getting ours and having this life.
You know what, I'm sure the Rubenites and the Gadites
and the Manassites are disappointed in their lives
now in heaven, as opposed to looking back and being like,
man, you remember those years with the cattle?
It's like nuts to the cattle they're thinking like man I wish I had inherited the promising I wish I had been on the other half of
Manasseh I wish I had gotten some more works done I wish I had killed another Philistine
or another Canaanite or another person like they're not sitting there being content
with having lived this 401k just easy boomer life where we cause no problems no they're like I wish I had fought more
I wish I had battled more.
I wish I had scored another goal, another touchdown.
I got another point.
I had left it all on the field that I didn't give up,
that I didn't quit early,
that I didn't go into retirement early.
You know, it's always a disappointing thing for athletes
when they have to retire early.
You know, whether that be injury,
whether that be to the, being benched,
being put as, you know, putting lower down on the team,
unpopular, whatever, it's always disappointing for them.
And you know what, it should be disappointing for us
if we were putting out of the fight,
if God was not allowing us.
And we shouldn't take ourselves out of the fight.
We shouldn't give up and quit, you know.
That's a wicked attitude.
We should learn from the children of Israel.
We should learn from these bad examples
of what Reuben did and Gadot.
And we should not be selfish.
The Christian life should not be one of selfishness.
It should be one of, hey,
being willing to fight for other people.
Being willing to go into the battle arena even if it doesn't personally benefit us even if it cost us something
You know how many gringos that went down to Mexico City are going to be benefited from there?
They're never going to go to church there. They're never going to live there
They don't care about that. You know what they just wanted to get some people safe
You know what that's the right battle to get into
is being willing to go out there and do things.
How many of us are gonna live in the Bahamas?
I know some of you would like to,
but it's expensive if you're not going to, okay?
You're not gonna live there,
but we're going out there because we wanna help them.
We wanna do good under them.
Go to the Philippines to help them,
to bless them, to do good under them.
We go to all these different places,
go to Oklahoma City to bless them and to help them.
We shouldn't only be concerned with ourselves.
And you know, as soon as we stop fighting the Lord's battles,
sometimes we have to realize it's even just a sin.
That your sin will find you out
Let's close in prayer
Thank you Heavenly Father so much for what you've given us and how you blessed our church and you've allowed us to grow and you've allowed
Us to accomplish great works
to give up on the lazy and selfish and scourge of the people who rather would encourage the next
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