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On the first
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On the last
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I love to tell the story
On the first
I love to tell the story of unseen things above
Of Jesus and his glory
Of Jesus and his love
I love to tell the story
Because I notice true
It satisfies my longings
As nothing else can do
I love to tell the story
Twill be my theme and glory
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love
I love to tell the story
More wonderful it seems
Than all the golden fancies
Of all our golden dreams
I love to tell the story
It did so much for me
And that is just the reason
I tell it now to thee
I love to tell the story
Twill be my theme and glory
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love
Love to tell the story
Tis pleasant to repeat
What seems each time I tell it
More wonderfully sweet
I love to tell the story
For some have never heard
The message of salvation
From God's own holy word
I love to tell the story
Twill be my theme and glory
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love
On the last
I love to tell the story
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it like the best
And when in scenes of glory
I sing the new, new song
Twill be the old, old story
That I have loved so long
I love to tell the story
Twill be my theme and glory
To tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love
I love to tell the old, old story
Of Jesus and his love
Good evening, everybody. Welcome to Shur Foundation Baptist Church.
Let's take our bulletins and go through the announcements real quickly here.
If you need a bulletin, just slip up your hand. One of the ushers will not bring you one because we're out, I guess.
If you do have your bulletin, just
read along with me. If you don't, just make sure you note these things
in your calendar that are the upcoming events.
And the verse of the week is the grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the
word of our God shall stand forever. Isaiah chapter 40,
verse number 8. On our inside page there we have our service times
1030 a.m. for our Sunday morning service. And we're going
to take a break from the series, the New Believers series. I'm just going to preach
a standalone sermon this weekend because we have
our friends and family weekend coming up.
So I'm just going to preach one sermon this weekend and then brother Daniel is going to preach the other one.
Sunday evening service, 3.30 p.m. Like I said, brother Daniel
is preaching this weekend and then Thursday Bible study. Tonight
we're in 1 Chronicles chapter number 10. So we're out of the names.
The name game is over and we're getting right into the story.
And then, let's see, so many times are listed below. Did we have any
salvations out there tonight? No. No salvations, but we still had some faithful people
go out, so thank you for going out if you went out. And our praise report,
you can see the salvations, baptisms, and attendance from last week.
And we had our men's preaching night on
Sunday night. And like I said, family and friends this weekend is this weekend.
So the pumpkin patch, I do have the times as 11 and 12.
That might sneak to 10 and 11 depending on what time they're offering
for the tickets. Is anybody willing to change and wants to go at 10 o'clock
if that happens? Anybody else? God bless you. I see the hand.
All right, hands all written down. All right, so yeah, tomorrow when I go
to purchase the tickets I'll know the time slots and everything. So
is there anybody that's not going that already signed up and now
you can't go? Anybody like that? Is there anybody that wants
to go and hasn't signed up yet or their name's not in the new form because the new form
got destroyed somehow? I'm not sure what happened, but
is anybody aware that the old one got destroyed and you still need to put your name in there?
Anybody?
Just go in there and check and make sure that your name's in there. All right.
So tomorrow I'm purchasing the tickets and so if anything
happens I'll just wait maybe until afternoon a little bit, purchase the tickets
and yeah, so my plan is to
meet everybody at the gate like I always do. I know you're going to be late.
Try not to be. I always say don't be late, but everybody always is, so
surprise me this year. I usually stand at the gate with the tickets
and so I'll just hand out your tickets and then just go in and have a good time.
I know some people are bringing their family.
Is anybody bringing family in here? Anybody bringing other family
besides your immediate family or your church family?
Okay, I know you are. You're bringing like the whole family. She's bringing cousins
and third uncles and I'm just kidding.
No, that's cool. I said you could, so that's cool.
Cool, so we're going to have a good time this weekend and then Pastor Mendez is not
preaching, so if you didn't know that, he's not preaching this Sunday. It's going to be
our evangelist from Spokane, Daniel Kutzar. So Pastor Mendez
couldn't make it, but he is going to make it up to us sometime and he'll be back
to preach for us. And yes, we're still friends
so in case you were wondering. Alright, October 27th Super Bowl
or not Super Bowl, super soul winning Saturday. Good night.
Alright, I'm struggling. 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
so I'll kind of make up for last Saturday. I apologize about that.
October 31st is the chili cornbread potluck game night
and I just got to back up to the 13th. The 13th, Dr. Phil Stringer
is going to be here preaching for us on Sunday, so he's going to be preaching both sermons.
He had an opening in his schedule and so he
is coming to see us, not this weekend, but the weekend after.
So cornbread, chili, you all know
about that and then so it's also a game night. It's going to start before church
and if you want to come a little bit early, you may. Then all the other stuff
is off in the distance there. We're family integrated, all that good stuff.
You know the rules, offering stuff at the bottom of the page
and then we had birthdays that we sing happy birthday for, but today
is Olivia's actual birthday. So we're going to sing happy birthday to her again
because she's my granddaughter and it's nepotism. No, I'm just kidding.
She is my granddaughter and I love her. Where's she at?
There she is. Hi, sissy.
Happy birthday to Olivia. She's four years old today.
Happy birthday
to you. Happy birthday
God bless you. Happy birthday
to you. Yay!
We took her out to Mexican food last night and
she got the big sombrero on her head and she was kind of freaked out at first
but then when she saw the dessert at the end, she was pretty happy.
Anyway, that's all I have for announcements. Go ahead and sing another song. We'll receive the offering.
Page 356 will be your next song.
I Must Tell Jesus, page 356.
I Must Tell Jesus on the first.
I Must Tell Jesus, I Must Tell Jesus
I cannot bear my burdens alone
I Must Tell Jesus
Jesus can't help me, Jesus alone
I Must Tell Jesus
all of my troubles
He's a kind, compassionate friend
If I but ask Him
He will deliver
Make of my troubles quickly an end
I Must Tell Jesus
I cannot bear my burdens alone
I Must Tell Jesus
Jesus can't help me, Jesus alone
Tempted and tried
I need a great Savior
One who can help my burdens to bear
I Must Tell Jesus
He all my cares and sorrows will share
I Must Tell Jesus
I cannot bear my burdens alone
I Must Tell Jesus
He can't help me, Jesus alone
I Must Tell Jesus
Oh how the world to evil allures me
Oh how my heart is tempted to sin
I Must Tell Jesus
and He will help me
Over the world the victory to win
I Must Tell Jesus
I cannot bear my burdens alone
I Must Tell Jesus
Jesus can't help me, Jesus alone
Thank you for staying with us this evening.
We'll receive our offering.
Brother Sean, can you bless the offering for us?
Lord, thank you so much for this day, Lord.
Thank you so much for our church, Lord.
Thank you so much for your pastor.
We pray that you would fill him with the Spirit.
I pray that you would bless this offering, Lord.
We bless both the gift and the gift.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Amen.
The Bible is to 1 Chronicles chapter 10.
1 Chronicles chapter 10.
If you don't have a Bible, there should be one in the seat in front of you.
1 Chronicles chapter 10.
Brother Eli read all the hard ones, so I get the easy one.
1 Chronicles chapter 10 verse 1.
The Bible reads,
Now the Philistines fought against Israel,
and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines,
and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
And the Philistines followed hard after Saul,
and after his sons,
and the Philistines slew Jonathan and Abinadab,
and Malchaishua the sons of Saul.
And the battle went sore against Saul,
and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.
Then said Saul to his armor-bearer,
Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith,
lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.
But his armor-bearer would not,
for he was so afraid,
so Saul took a sword and fell upon it.
And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead,
he fell likewise on the sword and died.
So Saul died, and his three sons,
and all his house died together.
And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled,
and that Saul and his sons were dead,
then they forsook their cities and fled,
and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
And it came to pass on the morrow,
when the Philistines came to strip the slain,
that they found Saul and his sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.
And when they had stripped him,
they took his head and his armor,
and sent into the land of the Philistines round about,
to carry tidings unto their idols and to the people.
And they put his armor in the house of their gods,
and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
And when all Jabesh Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
they arose, all the valiant men,
and took away the body of Saul,
and the bodies of his sons,
and brought them to Jabesh,
and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh,
and fasted seven days.
So Saul died for his transgression,
which he committed against the Lord,
even against the word of the Lord,
which he kept not,
and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to inquire of it,
and inquired not of the Lord,
therefore he slew him,
and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
Brother Jeremy, will you pray for us?
Amen.
Alright.
Like I mentioned,
we are now into the story.
And we've gone through the genealogy of Saul,
we've learned a lot about Saul,
how he started out pretty good as a king,
and then he kind of went in the wrong direction,
and I've kind of highlighted some things in past sermons about Saul and David,
and we'll look at some of that again tonight.
But I just kind of want to show the who, what, why, and where, and when of this story.
It's kind of how stories are told when people are writing,
but I just want to tell the story here of the death of Saul,
and really the book of Chronicles of the Kings,
it does have those genealogies at the beginning,
but really this is a chronicling mainly of the kings of Judah.
And the kings of Judah start with David,
because Saul is the first king,
but this is basically telling us the demise of Saul in this chapter,
and David begins to take over after this.
He doesn't take over as the king of all Israel until a little bit years later,
but he does take over as the king of Judah very quickly after this.
So the who, what, why, and where are the five questions that make up the five W's,
again when you're trying to gather the framework of information for telling a complete story.
So that's what I hope to accomplish tonight in this sermon,
so that we can get a clear picture of what's happening,
maybe do some application at the end.
I'm already behind because of the prayer requests and starting a little bit late,
but number one is the who and the where, and who is this happening to,
so where is this happening, where is this story taking place?
Well, look at verse number one, the Bible says,
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines,
and fell down slain in Mount Gilboa.
So the who and where is this happening?
Well, the Philistines are against Israel, and the men of Israel are fleeing from before them.
They're overrun, the Philistines are winning the battle,
and they're falling down slain in Mount Gilboa.
So Mount Gilboa is where this is happening,
the Philistines are fighting against the armies of Israel,
and they're led by King Saul.
But, you know, God forbid that this should happen,
but in reality it does.
And what's the overall story here is that God is judging the nation of Israel,
and specifically Saul, for what he has done as the leader of the children of Israel.
Because, you know, essentially where leadership goes, the people go also.
So if the leadership goes bad, then usually the people are not far behind it.
And they've already chosen a king over God when they were supposed to be under the system of judges,
so God's already kind of been angry with the children of Israel already.
They've really, you know, messed things up in the system of judges,
where everybody was doing that which was right in their own eyes,
but things have started to turn around.
Samuel was a good judge, and he did a lot of good things.
But Saul, when he was made king, he started out good, like I said,
but also then started to do bad.
And he chased David, he tried to kill David, he betrayed David many different times,
he killed the Lord's priests. What else did he do?
He tried to kill his own son. I mean, he did many different things that are pretty unsavory, right?
So, but God forbid that this should happen.
I mean, God wants to bless his people, but when his people are doing that which is wrong,
then God will allow his people to be overrun, like this is happening here.
And it's not a blessing that's happening here, this is a curse.
God's allowing their armies to be defeated by the Philistines,
so when God's people are on the run from their enemies and being defeated,
they're being cursed in some cases.
Not all cases, but in some cases, in this case, for sure, they're being cursed.
So, again, that is not always the case.
Sometimes there are trials, like Job.
Job was being cursed, but not because of something he did wrong.
Satan was cursing his life because God was allowing that to happen.
And Job didn't even know, maybe even possibly for his whole life,
or the rest of his life why that was happening,
but we know because the Bible tells us why that was happening.
And sometimes they are, the reason why we're being defeated or being overcome by our enemies
is because persecution for righteousness sake.
Sometimes God's people get killed or they get hurt
or they get mocked or whatever because of righteousness sake.
If you tell somebody at work that you're a Christian,
you're going to have a target on your back as long as you work there.
And the people are going to whisper about you, people are going to talk about you,
people are going to watch you more than they watch other people.
And every time you say a cuss word or every time you are laughing at some joke
that they told that's not good, they're going to be saying,
well how is he a Christian?
Or they're going to be judging every single thing you do
and then they're going to bring that up to you and make you look like a fool.
But persecution for righteousness sake has just been something that's been happening since Cain and Abel.
I mean Abel was killed because his deeds were righteous and Cain's were wicked, right?
Joseph was persecuted, why?
Because he was telling on his brothers because they were doing wicked things.
Moses was persecuted by the children of Israel
because he was a great leader in doing what God asked
and they were just rebelling against him.
The prophets were killed, why?
Because they were preaching to God's people the things that they needed to correct in their lives
and people don't like to hear the correction of God's word sometimes
and they just, there's generations that rise up
like Jeremiah's generation where he's just preaching and nobody likes him.
Everybody's against him.
Everybody wants to kill him but God still continues to protect him anyway.
Jesus Christ of course was stocked, maligned, made fun of
and people were sent to try to twist him into saying things that he shouldn't say
and he defeated all those people.
But that doesn't mean we're going to be able to do that.
Sometimes people are great resistors of our words
like Alexander the coppersmith was with Paul.
He warned Christians that he has a great vocabulary
and able to fight against Christians with his mouth
in a way that most people don't have the ability to do.
The apostles were maligned and mistreated for preaching the word of God
and basically the apostle Paul before he became the apostle Paul
was Saul who persecuted and tried to waste the church
and anyone that follows that way.
And what does that mean? That way is the way of Christianity.
So we are always targets of persecution.
So now again in this story this is not the case
but we're not always going through persecution
because of something that we've done wrong
but again people like to say well this is because of that.
This is because they didn't show up for church on Sunday night.
That's why God made them all sick or something.
We shouldn't be doing that. We shouldn't be thinking that way
because we don't really know that that's the case.
So when God's people are being blessed though,
when God's people are doing right,
when our church is in unity with one spirit,
striving together for the doctrine and for the gospel's sake,
God's going to bless our church.
But are we still going to get persecuted sometimes? Yeah.
Sometimes a bunch of trannies are going to show up in our parking lot with AR-15s
and try to ruin our day.
I mean do we do something wrong to deserve that?
No. We're just having a conference about the Bible.
Well does the Bible make people want to hurt and kill us?
Yeah, it does.
I mean people were burned alive for just knowing God's word.
Just for memorizing the Lord's prayer.
They were burned at the stake.
So of course we're going to be persecuted sometimes
even though we're doing that which is right.
Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 32.
Deuteronomy chapter 32.
But sometimes it is our fault.
And sometimes we see these pictures in the Old Testament
about the children of Israel getting punished
because they just refused to do what God said.
They refused to take his counsel.
They refused to teach their children.
And then in just one generation it would flip a whole generation against the Lord
and then he would have to send somebody again
to work it all out for them in the book of Judges.
And then they would follow him for about 40 years or so.
And then the same thing would happen again.
Look at Deuteronomy 32 verse 28.
God said this was going to happen though.
For they are a nation void of counsel.
Neither is there any understanding in them.
Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,
that they would consider their latter end.
How should one chase a thousand and put ten thousand to flight
except their rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up.
See if we're the head and not the tail,
if we're blessed and not cursed,
then we can have one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight.
We're the ones, the Philistines aren't going to be chasing us around.
We're going to be chasing the Philistines around.
We're going to be the ones that are being blessed
and people cannot stand before us on the face of the earth.
But it says for their rock is not as our rock
even our enemies themselves being judges.
So our God is not like their God.
Our rock is the Lord Jesus Christ
and their rock is the devil basically.
And their gods are devils.
So we have way more power and authority
and if we're doing that which is right
and our banner is the Lord Jesus Christ,
we're going to win that battle.
The gates of hell will not prevail against us.
But God forbid that we should have the Philistines
chasing us around because we're doing wrong.
Look at verse two, it says,
And the Philistines followed hard after Saul,
after his sons.
And the Philistines slew Jonathan
and Abinadab and Malekishua,
the sons of Saul.
So who are they specifically wanting to get though?
And who is God allowing them to get?
Well he's allowing them to get Saul who's the king
and his sons because this is already prophesied
and we'll go to that later.
But this is already prophesied
that this was going to happen by Samuel.
And the leadership and his sons
and other soldiers are being killed.
So in the first verse it says
that they're falling to the Philistines.
So and you know what, here's the thing
that everything rises and falls on leadership.
Why are they falling to the enemy?
Well because their leader ended up going bad.
Their leader ended up having a lot of problems
and so it's very important that
I guess applying this to churches
because I mean we're talking about kings
and kingdoms and stuff.
That's not really what we are necessarily
even though we are a nation.
We're a spiritual nation made up of believers
all around the world.
So I mean you can't apply it spiritually right?
But you know we also are a church
and churches are run by pastors
or they're supposed to be run by pastors.
And so the churches are going to succeed
based upon the leadership
and based upon how those people that are led
respond to that leadership.
And so if there's a bad leader
then the church is not going to go right.
And if there's a good leader
the church theoretically should go right.
So you know and John Maxwell
he's like this author about
he does a lot of workshops about leadership and stuff
and you know don't bring me this
well he has this doctrine I don't know.
His stuff on leadership seems to be okay.
He's the one that made that quote
everything rises and falls on leadership.
I'm sure it's a principle found in life though.
It's not like he's the one that made up that principle.
I'm sure you know he's attributed to the quote.
But he does have some principles
that I kind of wrote down here
and I was just going to go through them real quickly.
So and obviously we're talking about biblical leadership
so the world's leadership's a little different
but this guy claims to be a Christian
so I don't know if he added some of this in.
But according to him
when he says everything rises and falls on leadership
this means the leadership is about influence
and that the success of any organization
depends on the ability of its leaders
to influence others and add value to their lives.
And that's true.
I mean if a leader is not adding
or giving the ability to add value to other people's lives
then they don't really have a lot of influence
and their influence is going to wane
and not be successful.
And the success of our church
this is just me saying this
the success of our church depends upon
my leadership being strong, fair, and balanced.
I don't want to be too far one way or too far the other
I want to be in the normal zone.
Not too extreme, not too lax.
You know the type of church
and the type of church we want
is the type of church that attracts normal people too.
Not like radical weirdos
or just people that don't care about the things of God.
Of course we want people
we want to draw a certain type of people here
people that are fired up
that want to make an impact in this world
for the Lord Jesus Christ.
The success of leadership
is helped by continued growth
in my leadership.
I have to work on my own leadership.
It's not like I just stay
try to stay the same
and never work on anything else
and I realize that I have strengths
and I have weaknesses
and I think that it's my responsibility
as a leader to work on those weaknesses
and to improve on those areas
and to maintain the strengths that I already have
and work on those strengths that I already have
and you can't just let everything fall by the wayside
of the strengths that you already have
just to work on something that you're not really good at.
You should stay maintaining those things
that you already have
that you do well
and make sure you keep working on those things.
It's just like someone that's talented at a sport.
If you're good at baseball
and you're good at hitting
but then you're just like
well I suck at fielding.
I'm only going to practice on fielding
and I'm never going to do batting practice.
Well then you're going to start sucking at batting too
and then you're going to be mediocre at fielding
because you were never really great at fielding
in the first place
so then you're just going to be totally mediocre.
Whereas if you're a great hitter
and then you still work on your field
and you're going to get better at fielding
but you're going to stay great at hitting.
Does that make sense?
So if you're thinking like
hey I just need to stop working on all these things
that I'm already good at
don't get that mentality.
In your life I'm not just saying in leadership
but in general
keep staying sharp at the things that you are good at
and the things you are talented with
and then work on the things that you lack on
because you're always going to be weak
at the things that you're already weak at.
You're never going to be some great mathematician
necessarily if you just don't already have the mind for it.
You're not going to be like good will hunting
where you're just going to walk into some place
and do some crazy math problem or something
and everybody's going to wonder how smart you were
or something.
It's not going to happen.
You're just not going to,
people just are,
some people are just really smart
and born gifted in certain areas
and some people aren't
so it's just the way it is.
But anyway so leadership empowers other leaders
also so it's good to train other people
so that they can be successful leaders.
The future success of our church
is going to be measured by the succession
so I can't be the pastor forever.
I'm not going to hang on until I'm 99
if I even live that long.
So succession is something that's important
and so when I leave I want to set this church up
to be ready to succeed after I'm gone
and so that's what I want.
That's what I want.
I don't want to just,
oh well I guess it's going to be good in my time
but when it's,
and then give it the summary pen of your sins pastor
later on.
I want the succession to be successful
for the future success of this church.
And good leaders,
good successful leaders know the way,
go the way,
and show the way.
You got to know what you're talking about.
At least know the direction you want to go in
and go the way.
Not just know it but do it
and show people that you know
and show people that you know how to go that way.
So hopefully that makes sense.
Number two tonight is the what.
What actually happened to Saul and his sons?
Well we already saw that Saul's sons were killed
now by the Philistines
and of course Jonathan was a great warrior
so it doesn't say how long it took to get him
or how many people he killed.
I'm sure that he got as many people as he could
before he got taken out.
They're obviously overrun
and they were never going to win this battle
no matter how hard they fought
because they'd be fighting against God, right?
So it says the battle went sore, verse three,
against Saul
and the archers hit him
and he was wounded of the archers.
Then said Saul to the armor bearer,
draw thy sword and thrust me through there with
lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me
but his armor bearer would not
for he was sore afraid.
So Saul took a sword and fell upon it.
So was Saul actually killed by the Philistines?
No, Saul was not killed by the Philistines.
He was wounded by the archers
and he asked his armor bearer to thrust him through
because he was going to die.
He was mortally wounded
but he wasn't quite
all the way there and he said
lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me
because surely they would have tortured him
and who knows what else.
They were filthy.
Who knows what they would have done
but he knows what they were going to do
and when he says come and abuse me
I mean they're obviously going to
maybe do some weird stuff to him too, who knows?
But they're definitely going to abuse him, torture him.
They end up taking his head, I know that.
So then what's he do?
He kills himself.
Now Saul is saved
regardless of all these things he did
and so you can do some pretty bad things
and still be saved.
We like to tell people this when
the time is right, when you're out soloing
and of course if someone really needs to see these things
I would say to show it to them
but definitely don't spend all night
showing it to them
but you can show them some verses about
if someone is saved and they kill themselves
they will go to heaven.
This is my litmus test
for when I think that someone
is going to be
is understanding what I'm telling them or not.
And I use this
if you killed yourself
would you still go to heaven?
Which I always kind of caveat it too
because I know it's a very sensitive subject.
But most people believe
if they believe a false
a false work of salvation or something
most people believe that
from some Catholic teaching
or wherever they learned it
if you killed yourself and you were saved
that you would lose your salvation
you would die because you killed yourself.
It's a mortal sin.
That's what the Catholic Church teaches.
But this is a good one to show them
you can show them
in 1 Chronicles
let's see
well you can take them
and yeah you can show them this
and then you can take them to where
well I'll take you there later
but anyway
so Saul kills himself
I'll go to that here in just a second
but Saul kills himself
which of course
he tries to get his arm bare to do it
but he's too afraid. Why is he so afraid?
Well this is the Lord's anointed
this is the king
he doesn't want to do it, he's afraid to do it.
So but you know this also pictures
the law needing to be put away
before the New Testament
why does it picture that?
Because Saul pictures the Old Testament
and David pictures the New Testament
that's why. David pictures Jesus Christ
Saul pictures Moses and the law
I guess.
So that's the same way that John the Baptist
was the last of the prophets
John had to die
Jesus is the savior
he had to decrease
Jesus had to increase
so unfortunately
John the Baptist
his head was served on a platter
and you might think well that's kind of messed up
that the greatest man that ever was born
among women
or born of women has to get his head chopped off
for doing what he was told to do
well I mean
but there also is a picture there
of the fact that the law
is done away with in Christ
as far as that covenant
is done.
So when Saul is dead
then David takes over picturing
the New Testament of course
and so look at verse 5 it says
and when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead
he fell likewise on the sword
and died
so Saul died and his three sons
and all his house died together
so
and you know people would say
well good he did all this bad
you know it's a good thing that he died
but there's nothing really to cheer about
when leaders are taken
down by God
there's nothing to cheer about when
a good man who maybe
was misguided is
taken down
so even you know
even ones that deserve it David didn't feel that way
David doesn't talk about Saul
in a bad way
David never treats Saul
in some kind of harsh manner
if you remember the sermons I've already preached
David comes and bows
himself before him
with his face in the dirt
and is humble towards him
and when he cuts the skirt of his robe
off in that
cave he is
you know it convicts him in his
heart and he feels bad
about what he's done
and you know
he does this mind you while
Saul is going to the bathroom
which is you know
I would feel bad just about doing that
I mean that's an invasion of privacy
that no man should ever
do to another man
I mean yeah
so
let's turn to 2 Samuel chapter 1
2 Samuel chapter 1
let's see how
David felt and we've already gone through these verses
before but
David doesn't just recall
yeah Saul did
all this bad stuff let's just
drag his name through the mud
and just say how wicked he was
and what all the worst possible things
that he did let's just
throw his name throw mud on
his name and just disgrace him
is that what David did no let's look at verse 17
it says
and David lamented with this
lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan
his son also he
bade them teach the children of Judah
the use of the bow behold it is
in the book of Jasher
the beauty of Israel slain upon the high
places how are the mighty
fallen
so is that something that he's
saying that he's saying it's a negative
thing that these are mighty
men right tell it not
in Gath publish it not in
the streets of Ashkelon
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised
triumph
he's saying hey don't tell about this
victory that the Philistines got let's not
let's not publish this that's
going to give them a reason to
rejoice and woe
unto us as Christians when we cheer
on the demise of a man of God
it's wicked
look
at verse 21
mountains of Gilboa let there
be no dew neither let
there be rain upon you nor
fields or of offerings
for there the shield of the mighty
is vilely cast away
the shield of Saul as though
he had not been anointed with
oil from the blood
of the slain from the fat
of the mighty the bow of Jonathan
turned not back and the
sword of Saul returned not empty
saying he's basically saying
they they both got some they
both took down some of the enemy
with them Saul and Jonathan
were lovely and pleasant in their lives
and in their death they were not divided
I mean they had some division
you know some turmoil but in their death
they were together they fought together
and it says it says they were
lovely and pleasant in their lives but
is that true of their whole lives
no it's not true of their whole lives but David's
not here to spend a bunch of negativity
about them they
were swifter than eagles
they were stronger than lions he's
just like positively lifting these guys up
because the reality
of it is there's nothing positive
about godly men
perishing there's nothing positive
about a godly leader who
you know screws up
going down for the
count it says he daughters of
Israel weep over Saul who
clothed you in scarlet with other
delights who put on ornaments of gold
upon your apparel how are the mighty
fallen in the midst
of the battle oh Jonathan
that was slain in thine high places
I'm distressed for thee my brother Jonathan
very valiant has thou been
unto me
pleasant excuse me that has been
unto me thy love to
me has was wonderful passing the
love of women how are the mighty
fallen and the weapons of war
perished this is a lamentation
but notice that it's
positive it's not
negative David is not just you know
running him through the ringer saying
how wicked he was was
saw wicked did Saul do wicked
things yes he did but you're not
going to hear that come out of David's lips
when a true man
of God has done great things for him
dies when that happens
you see how a
man after God's own heart talks
about him is
David a man after God's own heart yes or no
how does he talk about him
positively
he says nice things about him
and you know
you can tell the difference between
how enemies talk
about a man of God when he dies and
positive when
when other people you know yeah
if somebody falls somebody you know
somebody has a fall in their ministry
or you know some Christian
has a fall just a regular Christian
they just you know they have they get
into sin and they get out of church you're like man
that's rough
and then they come back to church
and it's a victory you know
we we shouldn't be like
where have you been brother
you know don't do that to people
let them live it down let them
come back they shouldn't feel like they could never
come back to our church unless it's something that
they really can't come back to our church for
but if they've
gotten something right and
they've made things right and it's something they
can they can do they should be able to come back
you know
but David doesn't have this
attitude where everything's
lost everything's gone you know
everything's wicked about Saul everything's
bad he thought about the good and
pleasant things about
them and chose to lament
and this is recorded in the Bible for
us as an example
for us of how we should treat
people and how we even if
it's his enemy I mean
Saul threw a javelin at him twice
Saul tracked him
like all over the place trying
to kill him multiple times
and so
this should be an example
to us how we should treat
and how we should talk about
people that maybe
have fallen in the ministry also
look at number three is
the where the where is
Mount Gilboa and the valley and the cities
of Israel look at verse seven back in our
text it says and when all the men of
Israel that were in the valley saw
that they fled and that Saul
and his sons were dead
then they forsook their cities and
fled and the Philistines came
and dwelt in them
so what happened
as a result of Saul and
his sons getting taken out well everybody fled
so
it's not a good thing when the leadership
falls it's a bad thing
because the Philistines
came took over their cities probably
killed more people killed more innocent people
there's a big fallout
when leadership falls
when leadership fails so
wishing that upon people
wishing that upon churches
is not a good thing
not a great thing to do
it's not
it's not a godly attribute
to just say oh I hope that church fails
I hope that church falls
that's a wicked attitude to have
you should hope that it gets
you know things right or get
things you know to where it still can
carry on and have succession right
verse eight
and it came to pass on the morrow
when the Philistines came to strip the slain
that they found Saul and his sons fallen to Mount
Gilboa when they had stripped him
they took his head and his
armor and sent it into the lands of
the Philistines round about to carry tidings
unto their idols and to the people
and they put his armor
in the house of their gods and fastened
his head in the temple of Dagon
and when all Jabesh
Gilead heard all
that the Philistines had done to Saul
they arose all the valiant men
and took away the body of Saul
and the bodies of his sons and brought them
to Jabesh
and buried their bones under the oak
in Jabesh and fasted seven days
so
I mean David how he
treated Saul how he
responded to that
I mean look at how
these men these valiant men just came
and just said you know what you're not going to treat
our king that's dead
like that you're not going to keep him in your
house of idols you're not going to
keep his head and body and
they went and took it and brought it back
and they fasted for seven days
so they cared about him
it wasn't just some trash
that you threw in the rubbish bin
number five the why
why did this have to happen
why did Saul have to die
why you know the
Bible tells us why this happened
look at verse 13 it says
so Saul died for his
transgression which he committed
against the Lord even
against the word of the Lord which he
kept not and also
for asking counsel of one that
had a familiar spirit to inquire
of it and
inquired not of the
Lord therefore he
slew himself or excuse
me he slew him and turned
the kingdom unto David the son
of Jesse so
he transgressed
he committed against
he did a transgression he committed sin against the Lord
and even against the
word of the Lord and kept it
not and he
asked counsel of a familiar
spirit through a witch
and then he inquired not of the
Lord and God slew him
so
and gave it to David turned it over
to David so
yeah this is why
it happened because
and so why did
this happen well he
went to a witch this is the final straw
so God you know this is a good
lesson for us too is that
God will put up with a lot of stuff for us for a while
because God didn't just immediately take the
kingdom from Saul
and he didn't just immediately take the
kingdom from Saul it took
years he was the king for a long time
after that before he actually took it
over but you could see the
downward spiral of Saul
slowly go the spirit
of God was taken off of him
David was anointed with
with the oil
David started to increase
Saul started to decrease
Saul started to do wickedly
David started to do valiantly
and you know that
that transfer of power happened when
God wanted it to happen
not when the people wanted it to happen
not when the people in the cave wanted it to
happen not when his men wanted it to happen
when God
not when David wanted it to happen
when God wanted it to happen
this is something that we have to understand
it's not our job to overthrow
presidents in our country
it's not our job to overthrow kings in other
countries it's not our job to
overthrow people in their offices
that God has ordained them to be in
it's
not you know so all these people that are
saying hey it should be like 1776
I don't believe that
I think that we should you know
look whatever's happened our country is too far gone
to recover from now
we're just going to have to deal with the results of it
if you think your vote counts
then you know
I got some ocean front property
in Arizona I'd like to sell you
if you want to believe that
if you want to be all political that's fine with me
I don't really care
you're not going to bother me any
I just don't think that
it's going to help us
you know it's not going to help to vote
for the orange man or
for the Indian woman
so
the whore of Babylon gets in
then you know she's going to be
the literal whore of Babylon
so what are we going to do about it
we can't do anything about it
and it's not our job to do that
just like it's not our job to overthrow a
pastor of a church
so
take that for what it means
look God
overthrows the pastor
God overthrows
the king
God overthrows those people
that are anointed
and that are in the
positions that he's put them in
so it's not up to us
to be Dr. Seuss
or Dr. Sherlock Holmes
or you know that we're going to have
evil surmises and we're going to lead
a rebellion and a charge to
get rid of whatever pastor
we feel like we need to get rid of
it's not our job and you know what it's not another
pastor's job to tell another
pastor what he should do
it's the congregation
if the congregation is still happy with that man
and still happy to have him as their pastor
then who are we to
reply to that
it's not our job, it's not our business
and we shouldn't be just
chiming in on everything
that happens in every church
that's not our church
this is Shur Foundation Baptist Church
and we're going to
go by principle here
we're going to go by the word of God
here and we're not going to just
cater and be
bullied by people on the internet
that want to just tell us what we should do
where you stand at
are you the pastor of this church?
then shut your mouth
are you the pastor of their church?
shut your mouth
I don't need to see
your little statements online either
nobody asked you your opinion
I'm on number 5
I'm sorry I'm starting to get upset
1 Samuel chapter 28 verse 15
so Saul was put down
because of what he did and who put him down?
God put him down
God said
that this is the reasons why
Saul was taken out
and the last thing he did is he went and saw
a witch and he was told
he was supposed to inquire of the Lord
look at 1 Samuel chapter 28 verse 15
and Samuel said to Saul
why hast thou disquieted me
to bring me up?
and Saul answered I am sore
I am distressed for the Philistines make war
against me and God has departed from me
and answereth me
no more
neither by prophets nor by dreams
therefore I call thee
that thou mayest
make known unto me what I shall do
then said Samuel
wherefore then dost thou ask of me
seeing the Lord has departed from thee
and has become thine enemy
and the Lord hath done to him
take by me for the Lord hath rent the kingdom
out of thine hand and given it to thy neighbor
even David
because thou obeyest not the voice of the Lord
nor executest his fierce
wrath upon Amalek
therefore hath the Lord done this thing
unto thee this day
moreover the Lord also
will also deliver Israel
with thee into the hand
of the Philistines and tomorrow
shalt thou and thy sons
be with me
this is a clear verse to show people
about Saul actually being
saved because
Samuel is saved for sure
okay and so if him
and his sons are going to be
with Samuel the next day
then where did Saul go?
Saul went to heaven
so if you want to write that down for your soul
be my guest but it says the Lord
also shall deliver the host of Israel
into the hand of the Philistines
so this is a curse that is being put upon him
for his poor leadership for the things that he's done
but notice it's not David
that's doing it he's not sending David
and his mighty men to go take Saul out
no he's not he's not taking
you know David and all of his friends
to do it he's not sending anybody else
he's not sending God's people against him
he's sending the Philistines
against him and the Philistines
are taking him out
so it's not up to us
to turn the kingdom over to David
is it? it's God's
job to turn the kingdom over to David
it's not up to us to usurp
the kingdom and give it forth
to another it's not up to us
to fight against ordained leadership
of God and there's been
a lot of stretching forth
of hands to touch the Lord's
anointed men in the last weeks
and it's just honestly
been disgusting to me
but
you know people can do whatever they want
they're independent but I just
I mean I just don't
I don't understand why everybody
has to give their opinion
I like this comment
all you have to do is say it's none of our business
I like that quote
that's a good quote
let's go to 1 Samuel 24 verse 3
1 Samuel 24 verse 3
it says that he came to the sheep coats by the way
and there was a cave and Saul went to the cover of his feet
and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave
and the men of David said unto him
behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee
behold I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand
that thou mayest do to him
as it seemed good unto thee
then David arose and cut off the skirt
of Saul's robe privily
and it came to pass afterwards that David's heart
smote him because he had cut off
Saul's skirt
and he said unto his men
the Lord forbid that I should do this thing
unto my master the Lord's anointed
to stretch forth my hand against him
seeing he is the anointed of the Lord
and look I don't care if people say
well you can't compare David
with the pastor or whatever
he's still the Lord's anointed
that's the point
and yes you can compare it you can compare it spiritually
behold this day thine hand
or thine eyes have seen
how that the Lord had delivered thee
oh I'm sorry skip to verse 10
behold this day thine eyes have seen
how the Lord hath delivered me
thee today into
mine hand in the cave
and some bade me kill thee
see he had people saying kill them
now's the chance kill them
but mine eye
spared thee and I said I will not
put forth my hand
against my Lord
for he is the Lord's anointed
why did David not want to do it?
because he was the Lord's anointed
was David the Lord's anointed?
yes he was he was a co-anointed
guy right
and people would say well you know
David probably could have killed him
and it would have been okay did David think that?
did God bless
David because he didn't kill him?
yes I believe he did
he said moreover my father see
ye see the skirt of thy robe in mine hand
for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe
and killed thee not
know thou
and see that there is neither
evil nor transgression in my heart
in my hand excuse me and I have not
sinned against thee yet thou
huntest my soul to take it the Lord
judge between me and thee and the Lord
avenge me of thee but mine hand
shall not be upon
thee so David just
keeps telling him I'm not going to touch you
I know it's wrong I'm not going to do this
thing then he says as
sayeth the proverb of the
ancients wickedness proceedeth from the
wicked but mine hand
shall not be upon thee
this is what wicked people do is what
he's saying wickedness proceeded from the
wicked but my hand shall not be upon
me so when you see
people just popping off
their mouth and calling and saying things
that are not proven and not provable
and they're saying these
wicked accusations and
and just you know running
down a man of God that they don't
know the truth of the matter
then you know and then
they're just trying to kill that
man of the Lord that's
wicked that's what I mean
he's saying my hand won't be upon
me but yet you have pastors whose
hands have been upon another pastor
and to kill him in
the sight of the people that's what they're
trying to do to kill him
in the sight of the people
and it's and it's wrong
one of these pastors have been making a lot of
noise lately and really leading the charge of
all this said I want to
be David for once well
I want to be David why
can't I be David I'll
tell you why you can't be David you little cry
baby because you
act like Saul that's why
because you act like Shimei
you act like what's
the other guy that betrayed David
Ahithophel
because that's the character
that you actually are
you are a
bottom feeder and
a disturb a bad friend
also by the way
and you'll never be David because
you don't have the character of David
you have the character of Saul
so just
keep wishing that you're going to be David
someday but you're never going to be nobody's ever
going to call you that maybe your yes
men will maybe your
little pit bulls that you have go and attack people
you know in comment sections
will but
nobody that I know is ever going to call you that
you might have to
preach a sermon where you're David but
it's not going to happen
you're never going to be David
this
password made of chocolate he'd eat himself
that's how much he thinks of himself
I mean this person
works in secret to overthrow pastors
this person has meetings
with other people to overthrow pastors
he preaches sermons
to congregations
like ours to try to
overthrow pastors
I'm supposed to respect that
he's just righteous
he always is right his kids are perfect
and his life is perfect
you know
people that have no grace
you know
when people don't have any grace for
anybody else then
you know and I don't
wish this upon people
that the grace won't be
bestowed upon them but people sometimes
learn lessons the hard way
you know when you want to
overthrow somebody else's church maybe your church
is going to have a church split oh wait
it did happen it did happen
and you know what I felt
bad for this person
I texted and I said I'm sorry to hear that
that you went through that but like you know
I feel like they didn't
get the hint hey
maybe that judgment is coming upon you
because you tried to overthrow other people's
churches I mean
maybe you should learn that lesson
and stick your nose into your own
business and run your own church
and quit trying to overthrow everybody's
churches and
overthrow everybody as a pastor
and if you want to leave the new IFB
so bad just be gone and just leave us alone
I mean
you want to be done with us just stop talking
about us it's really
that simple
did
David do evil Saul
no he didn't
no he didn't and you know I would mention
this pastor's name but like they'd love that way
too much and they're probably just
just jumping up and down
with glee in the fact that I'm just
mentioning anything which I really
don't want to mention anything but it's just like
been disgusting
the giddiness that they have
of watching another
man get taken down
it's just disgusting
here's a warning to
those that would kill the Lord's anointed
or even say something against
him in some sort of
sycophantic favor
to get some sycophantic favor of this
of other people now
because look the weirdos that
leave our movement they become the
sycophants for the next pastor
or they become the
sycophants for the
next pastor's kids or whatever
and they and you know these people think
that they're the real true fans or something they're just
going to do to you what they did
to the last guy they'll
act like they're so devoted but then
the minute they have a chance they're
going to do the same thing to you
and you think that they're your true followers
you're crazy
these people are nuts
I mean they've been calling my phone
ever since the service started
because they're psychopath reprobates
that's why
look at the second
I know we got to go I actually didn't start
the sermon the sermon hasn't been going for an hour
yet so second Samuel chapter
second Samuel chapter one
so but here
here's a warning to those
that just think it's just okay
to just kill the Lord's anointed
and of course I'm applying this spiritually
right
second Samuel chapter one verse two
it says
it came even to pass on the third day
that behold a man out of the camp
from Saul
came out of the camp and Saul with his clothes rent
and earth upon his head
and so it was when he
came to David and he fell to the
earth and did obeisance and
David said unto him from whence
comest thou and he said unto him
out of the camp of Israel
am I escaped and David
said unto him how went the matter I pray
thee tell me and he answered that
the people are fled from the battle and many
of the people also are fallen and dead
and Saul and Jonathan his son
are dead also and David
said unto the young man that told him
how knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan
his son be dead and the
young man that told him said
as I happened by chance
upon Mount Gilboa behold
Saul leaned upon his spear and
lo the chariots and horsemen followed
after him and when he looked
behind him he saw me
and called unto me and I answered
here am I and he said unto me
who art thou and I answered
him I am an Amalekite
he said unto me again
stand I pray thee upon me and
slay me for anguish has
come upon me because my life is yet
whole in me so I stood upon him
and slew him because I was sure that
he could not live after that he had fallen
and I took the crown that was upon his head
and the bracelet that was on his arm and
have brought them that hitherto
unto my lord and then
David took hold on his clothes and rent them
and likewise all the men that were with him
and they mourned and wept and fasted
until even for Saul and for Jonathan
his son and for the people of the lord
and for the house of Israel
because they were fallen by the sword
so I mean this is real
bad news that they are getting
and David thinks that this is probably true
but what
what is the real story we know that he
actually killed himself but this guy is trying to take
credit for
killing Saul but we know he didn't
but David doesn't know this
he says in verse 13
and David said unto the young man that told him
whence art thou and he answered
I am the son of a stranger and Amalekite
and right then I am sure that this is like
oh he is an Amalekite huh
these guys that we are all supposed to kill every single
last one of and David said unto them
how is thou not afraid to
stretch forth thine hand and destroy
the lords anointed
and David
called one of the young men and said
go near and fall upon him and he smote him
that he died and David said unto him
thy blood be upon thy head
for thy mouth hath testified against thee
saying I have slain
the lords anointed
and you know I would say
to the people and pastors that are
coming out super hard on these current
affairs you know be
just be aware of the fact
that you are trying to
slay the lords anointed
and like you can make fun of me for
saying that or whatever but you know
what I am just going to stand on the principles
of the word of God this is still
a principle this is still a spiritual
truth and I still
believe this with all my heart
that this is not something we should do
show me the time that I ever
called a saved man of God
to ever resign or to
to quit being the pastor
of his church just show me that time
because
I'll eat my words
I've never said that about any
of these guys and even guys that I
don't like I still have never
tried to openly
overthrow them as the pastor of their
church even if I don't like them
which some of them I don't
I mean
I preach a sermon against pastor Fritz
because of his bad behavior
but I never said I said hey I
still think he's saved I still think he's doing
good things or whatever but I never said
to overthrow him as the pastor of the church
if I did then show me
the show me the video where I said it
you know
and I don't take that kind of stuff lightly
I'm not trying to you know when
people have bad behavior yeah we do have to call
it out I understand that but
to sit there and just try to
overthrow other people's churches and
bug your nose into people's business
and you have laymen in churches that are
just attacking pastors
maliciously now look
if one of the pastors that got called
out in the sermon on Sunday from
Faith War Baptist Church is upset
about that or people are upset about the fact
that he did that listen just listen to me for a
second they
were calling
him a child abuser
a wife beater
and all manner of evil
and
saying a lot of crazy stuff and letting their
wives say a lot of crazy stuff in the comments
did you not think he would
say something in response
and honestly I think he was very
graceful in what he said
because he probably could have gone a lot more
nuclear than he actually did
because to say something like that
about a person when you don't
have physical evidence of that
I think is wicked as hell
and you're like well I didn't
think you were going to get involved in this well you know what
Pastor Anderson is my friend
and you know what me you know
I didn't want to say anything until he actually preached
himself about this
and so I just
I wanted to just you know hopefully
everything was going to go okay and everything but like
if he's my
friend then shouldn't I say
he's my friend shouldn't I
say that I stand by him
and you're like oh you're
you're supporting an abuser
shut up if you think that
then you're an idiot if you think I support
abuse then you're an idiot if you think
that I beat my wife then you're an idiot
if you think I support
you know people beating their wives
you're an idiot my whole
church knows that and
if you don't know that let me tell you right
now I don't support that
I mean
I don't I just told you guys
I don't believe in going too crazy
with your spankings with your kids it should be age appropriate
it should be with a rod
that's what the bible says
so you
can just add all these little
attacks that you want onto me
but you're never going to hear me
talking about I don't even want to mention
what they're saying because I just don't
believe in it
it's a nothing there's nothing
in the bible
to teach that doctrine and I'm just not
I'm not even going to preach about it because why
should I it's just nothing
I don't believe in it I've never
had one person come
to me and say that their husband is beating their
wife or that they are
you know I haven't had a woman come to me and
say my husband's beating
me I've never had that happen
in counseling ever
unless I've just forgotten about something but I don't
think that that's happened
so to say that oh the new
IFB teaches that we should beat
our wives that's ridiculous
but people are just using straw men
because somebody said this
or that like but my strong
stand is of course you guys know this
I don't believe that men should
hit women but I don't believe that women should hit men
either just so you know
and
I don't think that you should go overboard with spankings
with your kids what do I mean by that
well
I think you should hit with the rod that's what the bible
says age appropriate
so that's what I believe
so but to
those that are making these hard stands
or whatever the day might come
when you're accused
of something and you
didn't and say you didn't do it
and then
you don't have friends to back you
up because you didn't back your
friend up when you could have
and look if some
crazy evidence comes out and it turns out
that it was all true you know what I'm going to say
well I guess I was wrong
that's what I'm going to say
but you know what
a friend loveth
at all times
that's what the bible
says and you know what
I'm not going to just abandon my friend
when he's saying I'm
not guilty of these things
I did not do them
so
people can get pissed off about that all they want
but the fact remains
that there is no physical
evidence that this happened
there is no arrests have been made
nothing in court, no trials
nothing, if that
happens if there is some kind of evidence that
takes place I will change my mind
I'm not going to
like I even told this to him
to his face, well I mean on the phone
that I'm not going to just
I'm not this kool-aid drinker of course
I'm circling the wagons, I'm drinking the kool-aid
right, but here's
the thing, if there's evidence
on the contrary then I would change my mind
that's not a kool-aid drinker
that's just someone that I'm going to believe
I'm going to believe what my friend
is saying, I'm not going to be like Job's
friends and just say
surely you had to do something to make
this happen right
you don't know that
and so
that's what the truth
that's the truth I know
anyway at this point
and you know again
I mentioned to this in prayer time though
that the apostle Paul said no man
stood with me, is it possible
that no man can stand with you
and you're still, but you're right still
is popular opinion
and pressure from other people
and pressure from other pastors
and pressure from your friends
and pressure from Facebook for people to go
where do you stand
I don't need to tell you
where I stand because you tell me what I
need to stand
I'm going to tell you what I want to tell you
you're not going to control me
and I just felt like it was time
for me to say where
I'm at
oh you're with the abuser, shut up
if you think that then you're an idiot and you can just leave
but I don't think anybody thinks that
so if I'm wrong
come up and talk to me after church
I won't call you an idiot and I won't yell at you
but I still love you
I want church to have unity though, I really do
I don't want to be divided on this
but
if you have a different opinion
like
you're just like oh I don't think he's qualified
I don't care, I already told you that
but what I have a problem with
is people railing
and people saying
he's this wicked evil
child beating wife
smashing monster or something
well then
how'd you get saved?
because I would say that someone
that's as bad
as the testimonies that I've heard
is a reprobate
and I don't think he's a reprobate
so
last verse and we'll be out of here
I'm sorry this sermon's taking so long
now it's five minutes over, I'm sorry
but I was
Matthew 7 and 2
but what I was saying though
is that the day might come
when you have a battle and you're accused of something
hopefully God's mercy will fall on you
I'm not cursing anybody or telling anybody
I hope that this happens to you
I hope that people
get this right
I think that this is the biggest deception
that I've ever seen
it's the biggest attack I've ever seen
and I've never seen anything like it
and I just think
it's been crazy
it's been really hard to deal with honestly
but
on a day
also when your enemies rise up against you
I hope your friends stand with you
and give you the benefit of the doubt
because that's
not what I've seen happen
Matthew 7
2, for with what judgment you
judge, ye shall be judged
and with what measure you meet
it shall be measured to you again
this is a warning
to people, hey be careful
how you judge people
because if you're going to just sit
there and act like you're just so
high and mighty and then
the same situation happens to you
you're going to be judged like you
judge that person and that's pretty
harsh in this case here
I hope your children
never rebel against you
I hope your teenager never goes wayward
because
there's a lot of people who already have had
that kind of stuff happen to them and they
understand what's going on
so
anyway I'm done
let's pray, Lord thank you so much for
this church I pray that you just bless and help us
to have unity and I pray
Lord that people
would just get right
on these types of issues
Lord that we would understand that it's
Lord it's your place to remove
leaders that are
anointed by you Lord and
whether it's presidents or
pastors or whatever it is
that Lord it's your job to
remove them and they cannot
fight against God they cannot
fight against you Saul could not fight against you
and Lord it's not our job
to replace people it's your job
I pray that you'd help us with these things
help us to have
good judgment and sound judgment on these
types of things we wouldn't let
our heart be taken away
with
just the popular
vote and the popular thing
and I just pray that you would
Lord just help us give us discernment
because there's not a lot of discernment going on today
I pray you just bless as we go our separate ways
in Jesus' name we pray, Amen
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