you
By thy grace we will you guys are singing good tonight on the fourth
Fearsome long the battle rages, but our help is near
Onward comes our great commander cheer my comrades cheer
Oh
For I am coming Jesus signals still
Wave the answer back to heaven by thy grace we will
Amen good singing brother bill, would you open up with a prayer?
Amen our second song is me song number 310 footprints of Jesus
Song number 310 in the red and the green him books footprints of Jesus
Song 310 let's sing it together on the first
Sweetly Lord have we heard thee calling come follow me
And we see where thy footprints falling lead us to the
Footprints of Jesus that make the pathway glow
We will follow the steps of Jesus where e'er they go
Oh
Though they lead or the cold dark mountain seeking his sheep
Or along my solo arms fountains helping the weak
Footprints of Jesus that make the pathway glow
Oh
We will follow the steps of Jesus where e'er they go
If they lead through the temple holy preaching the word
Or in homes of the poor and lowly
Serving the Lord
Footprints of Jesus that make the pathway glow
We will follow the steps of Jesus where e'er they go
Then at last when on high he sees us our journey done
We will rest where the steps of Jesus and that is thrown
Footprints of Jesus that make the pathway glow
We will follow the steps of Jesus where e'er they go
Amen. Good seeing with that. We'll have our announcements
Just lift your hand up high and
Do we have any bulletins? No, we don't. All right. Well, I guess not
If you need one then too bad should have been here on Sunday
Alright on the front cover. We have our verse of the week. It says the Lord thy God is in the midst of thee
In the midst of thee is mighty he will save he will rejoice over thee with joy. He will rest in
His love he will joy over thee with singing Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 17 on our inside page there
We have our service times
1030 a.m. For our Sunday morning service Sunday evening service 3 30 p.m. Will be in Joshua chapter
11
I think I don't know. I can't remember
Anyway, we'll be back in the book of Joshua on Sunday evening and Thursday Bible study tonight's in 1st Chronicles chapter 21
Our sowing times are listed below. We had so many do we have anybody else saved tonight? We had one saved
All right, praise the Lord for that and we had six saved on Sunday
So one saved to tonight and then I had one on the telephone from a call
And she is getting baptized on Sunday. So we're gonna need to have the baptismal all ready to go. I
Want to get together with the ushers after church if I could you have time afterwards and
I could just get someone to turn down that heater real quick
I would really appreciate it because I know it's not gonna I'm not gonna last up here
So anyway, also you look down you can see our stats so far
And we do have two baptisms and that's those were recorded in
Indianapolis and let's see. We had a good weekend last weekend with pastor we preaching for us
Preached two great sermons for us. So it's really nice having them here with us and
We had the Valentine's
Or not Valentine's this sweetheart banquet Mary couple sweetheart banquet was really good and just want to say once again
Thank you to everybody who participated and came here, but also thank you to everybody that made it such a such a success
I think that everybody had a great weekend. So I know I did and my wife did also and
Let's see. What do we got? We had the Valentine's Day kids party at 11 15 today
And I think I didn't hear any complaints. So nobody called and complained to me. So I think everybody had a good time there and
The
Super Saturday is this weekend
on Saturday between 12 and 3 p.m
So if you're going to that, can I get a quick show of hands of who's going to that?
Six
Gabe you're going by yourself
All right, it's like we got a super so winning Saturday 12 to 3 12 o'clock
All
Right, it's in Hazel Dell so, huh
It's Saturday
This Saturday
It's coming Saturday at 12 o'clock
So and the maps will be put in the whatsapp group and brother Alex you're gonna do that, right? Okay
It's just we're gonna do apartments in Hazel Dell and we're eating somewhere. That'll be put in the group also
Alex didn't you have an idea of where you wanted to go some crazy place. What was it called Oh
Korean barbecue
Is it delicious
Well, it sounds delicious
Okay. All right. What's the name of the place? Do you know? Well, let's not say on the line. Yeah
Let's not do that. All right, talk to me after the service
We'll try to pinpoint. All right, so that is 12 to 3
we'll have the meeting place in the whatsapp group and ready for us to meet and
let's see the
Anniversary in Spokane for the six year anniversary is gonna be March 14th. I'll be preaching there on Friday night
there'll be some soul winning on Saturday and
Then Remy's gonna preach both services on Sunday
March 29th is the salt as a soul winning marathon
And
Then it'll be around. I don't know. I haven't picked the place yet. So I got to catch up with these announcements here
March 30th is going to be a men's preaching night here and then the Lord's Supper
Here for the evening service April 19th is gonna be this mega marathon
Easter Sunday's the 20th and then what I didn't squeeze in there is the Seattle
Second year anniversary is gonna be the last weekend of April, which is let's see
Get my
Calendar out here
That would be the 27th
I'm working on trying to get somebody to preach on a Friday night there
So we would probably have to do that at like a hotel or something
So working on that and then of course the big conference is coming in May and
Then Chicago soul winning marathon the 28th of June
Detroit soul winning marathon September all the rest of the information
of course the family integrated services and
Tithing information down at the bottom of the page
And
See that's everything Oh Amy and oh, yeah, we're already saying happy anniversary, right?
Oh, yeah, you guys did you guys want your gift cards for finishing the New Testament?
You guys been child. I know I know Eli does
Little Eli
All right young young Eli young spry Eli we want to come up and get yours
Come on come on up you've been asking come on
All right, I'm gonna read the list
Now you're shy boy
All right, so Jesse
Come on up and get yours as I call your name or you're not getting it
Jesse quickly
Ramon
And Bobby you can get hers too miss Sheila someone can take hers to her Jackson
Jack
Remy already gave Kylie hers Remy. Where you at? Come on
This Rachel
You
Our next song is on number 49 meet me there
Song number 49 meet me there
Song for 9 let's sing it together on the first
on the
Happy golden shore where the faithful part no more when the storms of life are or meet me there
Where the night dissolves away into pure and perfect day
I am going home to stay meet me there
Meet me there
Where the tree of life is blooming meet me there
When the storms of life are or on the happy golden shore
Where the faithful part no more meet me there
Here our Honda's hopes are vain
Dearest links are rent and twain, but in heaven no throb of pain meet me there
By the river sparkling bright in the city of delight
Where our faith is lost inside meet me there
Meet me there
Where the tree of life is blooming meet me there
When the storms of life are or on the happy golden shore
Where the faithful part no more meet me there
Where the harps of angels ring and the blessed forever
Sing in the palace of the king meet me there
Where in sweet communion blend hard with heart and friend with friend
In a world that ne'er shall end meet me there
Meet me there
Where the tree of life is blooming meet me there
When the storms of life are or on the happy golden shore
Where the faithful part no more meet me there
Amen good seeing at this time. We'll have our offering brother Alex. Would you bless the offering for us?
We ask you to bless this gift, both the gift and the giver, that we can further your kingdom. In Jesus' name, amen.
You
All right, good evening, it's good to see you this evening
Would you please turn with me to the book of 1st Chronicles chapter 21?
1st Chronicles chapter 21
As is our custom will read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1
Please read along silently with me 1st Chronicles chapter 1. I'm sorry 21
In 1st Chronicles chapter 21 the Bible reads and Satan stood up against Israel and
provoked David to number Israel and
David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people go number Israel from Beersheba
even to Dan and bring the number of them to me that I may know it and
Job answered the Lord make his people and hundred times so many more as they be but my lord the king are they not all
my lord servants
Why then doth my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab
Wherefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel and came to Jerusalem
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David and all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and
100,000 men that drew sword and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword
but Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them for the king's word was abominable to Joab and
God was displeased with this thing. Therefore. He smote Israel and
David said unto God I
Have sinned greatly because I have done this thing
But now I beseech thee do away the iniquity of thy servant for I have done very foolishly
And the Lord spake unto Gad David's seer saying go and tell David saying thus saith the Lord
I offer thee three things choose thee one of them that I may do it unto thee
So Gad came to David and said unto him thus saith the Lord choose thee
Either three years famine or three months to be destroyed before thy destroyed before thy foes
while that the sword of thine enemies overtake thee or else three days the sword of the Lord even the
Pestilence in the land and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the coast of Israel now
Therefore advised thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me and David said unto Gad
I'm in a great strait
Let me fall now into the hand of the Lord for very great are his mercies
But let me not fall into the hand of man
So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel and there fell of Israel
70,000 men and God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it and as he was destroying
The Lord beheld and he repented him of the evil and said to the angel that destroyed it is enough
stay now thine hand and the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of
Ornan the Jebusite and
David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven having a drawn sword
Sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem
Then David and the elders of Israel who were clothed in sackcloth
fell upon their faces and
David said unto God is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered even I it is that have sinned and done evil
Indeed, but as for these sheep, what have they done?
Let thine hand I pray thee O Lord my God be on me and on my father's house
But not on my people that they should be plagued
Then the angel of the Lord
commanded Gad to say to David that David should go up and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshing floor of
Ornan the Jebusite and
David went up at the saying of Gad which he spake in the name of the Lord
And Ornan turned back and saw the angel and his four sons with him hid themselves
Now Ornan was threshing wheat and as David came to Ornan
Ornan looked and saw David and went out of the threshing floor and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground
Then David said to Ornan
Grant me the place of this threshing floor that I may build an altar there in unto the Lord
thou shalt grant it me for the full price that the plague may be stayed from the people and
Ornan said unto David take it to thee and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes
Lo I give thee the oxen also for the burnt offerings and the threshing instruments for wood and the wheat for the meat offering
I give it all and
King David said to Ornan nay, but I will verily buy it for the full price for I will not take that
Which is thine for the Lord?
For nor offer burnt offerings without cost
So David gave to Ornan for the place
600 shekels of gold by weight and David built there an altar unto the Lord and offered burnt offerings and
peace offerings and called upon the Lord and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering and
the Lord commanded the angel and he put up his sword again into the sheet thereof at
That time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite then he sacrificed there
For the tabernacle of the Lord which Moses made in the wilderness and the altar of the burnt offering
Were at that season in the high place at Gibeon
But David could not go before it to inquire of the Lord
For he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord
Brother Brandon, would you pray for us?
All
Right before we get started I just want to let you guys know that the bathroom is out of order again
so I'm not sure what's going on with it, but
It got cleared out yesterday and now it's on the fritz again
So I'm not sure what's going on, but don't use those first two around the corner
You still have the one around the we have the one baton the very far back that we can use and one upstairs
Anyway enough potty talk let's get into the chapter here
Let's see first Chronicles chapter 21 and the title sermon tonight is David's census brings
pestilence
last chapter David finished off the children of Ammon and
really kind of rolled the wheel over them so to speak and really
Put them through the brick kiln and chopped them up with harrows. You know plowed them over with harrows of iron and
chopped them with axes and and really kind of
Made an example of what happens when you mess with David and the children of Israel kind of went overboard
with their destruction, but
I'm sure that people were very afraid to
Mess with David and the children of Israel after that and then you know towards the end of the chapter
He fights against those giants, and I had mentioned how the modern versions
will take
the part in
that they'll take out that it was the brother of
of
Goliath they get tight and they'll take that part out back in chapter. I just kind of wanted to
Go flip back to one page or wherever you're at in chapter 20
Instead of chapter 21. I wanted to kind of address something. I said I was a little bit mistaken
So it's it's actually in 2nd Samuel chapter 21 verse 19
Where they take and say that it was the brother of in the King James, it says the brother of Goliath they get tight
But in first chronicles, it says Lami the brother of Goliath they get tight
So basically you have a contradiction if you read the modern versions
They're gonna take that part the brother of Goliath out and they'll just say
That this Elhanan the son of Jerigarim the Bethlehemite slew
Goliath so all the modern versions in 2nd Samuel 21 19 will say
That they slew Goliath, but the problem with that is is that everybody knows who slew Goliath?
David slew Goliath, so then you have this later
They'll say well that's not in the original Greek, or I mean the original Hebrew, and that's why they change it
But here in first chronicle chapter 20 verse 5 it says and there was war again with the Philistines and Elhanan
The son of Jer, slew Lami the brother of Goliath they get tight whose spear staff
Was like a weavers beam
So Elhanan the son of Jer slew Lami the brother of Goliath the brother of Goliath they get tight
so
But the problem with this is with the modern versions, which they have lots of problems all over the board
but
Go ahead and turn to 2nd Samuel check keep your finger here in
The
chronicles and
Go over to 2nd Samuel chapter 21 verse 19, and we'll see what it says there in
2nd Samuel chapter 21 verse 19
And I just kind of want to address this real quick before we move on into our chapter here
It says in 2nd Samuel chapter 21 verse 19, so this is like a parallel passage basically
of this
event that takes place
Where they're kind of taking care of the remnants of the Giants of the Philistines
So Goliath had brothers Goliath had sons
And they're kind of just taking out this remnant here
And it says in 2nd Samuel 21 19 it says and there was again a battle and gob with the Philistines where Elhanan
the son of Jer or Oregon a
Bethlehem I slew the brother of Goliath the get tight the staff of whose spear
Was like a weavers beam
So the King James gets it right it
You'll see that that's an italics the brother of
But in first chronicles, it's not an italics that it's the brother of Goliath and so people are like well
Why is it? Why is it not in the Hebrew in?
2nd Samuel 21 verse 19 and the answer to that is I don't know why it's not
But what I do know is
That it's not an italics, and it isn't the Hebrew in first Chronicles chapter 20 verse 5, so what would that lead you to us?
You know that you you know that what it what it says in first Chronicles 20 verse 5
Should be the right rendering in for in 2nd Samuel chapter 21 verse 19
You're like well. That's adding to the Word of God well
No, it's just you know filling in a translational blank in your Bible. That should be there
So now what are the modern versions do though they leave people confused that are lead that are reading a
False Bible version because they're gonna leave people confused to think that
Somebody else killed Goliath, and then it's a contradiction in their Bible
Let me read you what the Amplified Bible says the Amplified Bible says
in 2nd Samuel chapter 21 verse 19
There was war with the Philistines again at Gob and Elhanan the son of Jer
Origam a Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite
Whose spear?
Shaft was like a weavers beam
So apparently Goliath has been risen from the dead all these years later and was killed by somebody else
So now in the Amplified version in 1st Chronicles chapter 20 verse 5 it says
And there was war again with the Philistines Elhanan the son of Jer killed Lami the brother of Goliath the Gittite
Who the shaft of whose spear was like a weavers beam?
So you have a contradiction. It's a parallel passage and
So you can't have it both ways he either killed Goliath or he killed the son or the the brother of Goliath which one is it?
which one makes more sense the King James version or
The ES or the amplified version well the amplified version is wrong obviously
The ESV says and there was war again
The ESV stands for the extremely stupid version
But it says and there was war again with the Philistines with the Philistines at Gob and Elhanan the son of Jer
Origam the Bethlehemite
Struck down Goliath the Gittite wow here it is again
He's risen from the dead in the ESV also the shaft of whose spear was like a weavers beam now
They do the same thing that the amplified version does they they say that this guy struck down Goliath the Gittite
which is which was killed by David many years before this and
in the first in first chronicles it says
That there was again war with the Philistines and Elhanan the son of Jer struck down Lami
The brother of Goliath the Gittite the shaft of whose spear was like a weavers beam
I'm not gonna torch you with everyone, but I'm just gonna read one more the NASB
Which people say this is the most accurate of all you know. This is what Trump would say the most accurate of all the
The versions all right the NASB says and there was war with the Philistines again at Gob and Elhanan
The son of Jer Origam the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite
The shaft of whose spear was like a weavers beam
So the NASB the supposed most accurate of all the new translations
also has
Goliath being killed by somebody other than David
so
My question is if it's so accurate. Why are they getting it wrong?
Why are they getting this real any kid in America?
Could probably tell even if they're not Christian even if they're not religious at all
Everybody probably knows who killed Goliath if you just ask them I
mean even
Someone who's never been to church before probably would know the answer to that question who killed Goliath. They'd say David
David is one of the most famous people
still after thousands of years in the whole world and in the story of David and Goliath is a very famous story and
Nobody thinks that Elhanan the son of Jer Origam the Beth the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite
nobody thinks that
except for
People that read the NASB the ESV and the amplified version
I mean even some of the modern versions like the NIV actually
Place it and put the right you know put they put it in the italics and make it right
so
The NASB of course gets it right in first chronicle chapter 20 verse 5 and say that
You know that Jair that killed Lami the brother of Goliath the Gittite, so you know which one is it well
Was it Goliath or was it the brother of Goliath is it Lami or is it Goliath you know?
What's the problem with that well the problem with that is that?
Somebody that's young that's in church. That's given one of these stupid version
Bible versions is gonna get this and then somebody's gonna point out a contradiction to them some
Atheist is gonna say hey, did you ever see this before and then they're gonna read that and go oh?
There's a contradiction in my Bible the Bible is not true. That's the problem with it
So but they can't do that with the King James. They're not gonna be able to do that with the King James
They might be able to find some sly one
Somewhere that's easily refutable, but they're not gonna find something that glaring in the King James Bible that they can just
Scrutinize and say is not true
So I did want to kind of back up
I was just wrong about which which book that was actually in I
Just had mistakenly said that but I did want to kind of cover that last week
And I just ran out of time to do that so let's move forward into the sermon which is point number one that Satan
Constantly looking to provoke us to sin and we see that here in verse number one
It says in Satan stood up against Israel and provoked David to number Israel. You're like well. What's the big deal about that?
Well, let's read on and I'll explain it to you here in just a minute
But obviously he's doing something he's provoking something out of David to number him well
It says in David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people go number Israel from Beersheba
Even to Dan and bring the number of them to me that I may know it and Joab answered
The Lord make his people and hundred times so many more as they be but my lord the king are
They not all my lord servants
Why then does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel so?
You know when Joab's asking about
The validity of something you know you're doing something. That's not right
Okay, if Joab's like hey, are you doing something? That's right here David
are you doing something wrong when he's like you know gutted people at the gate and
killed you know a couple of David's relatives before and
it's not really the shining example of
You know doing what's right all the time?
When he's questioning you then you got to wonder like am I doing something wrong here
So how is what he's doing a sin though?
How is what he's doing a sin well in verse 1 it says that he's provoking David to number Israel and
Really, there's no reason for David to be doing this. He's already beaten down all of his enemies
He's already crushed all the rebellions around him and now this is just kind of a matter of pride and Satan is
His his main rebellion was pride wasn't it and so he you know David is the king of this mighty Kingdom
he's you know we made some mistakes in the past, but
Now he's he's kind of getting on to he's pushing buttons on David to get him to do something
And that's a lot of how Satan provokes us to sin because he just likes to push
Touch things that we like so that we'll do things and then he can just accuse us to God for doing those things
He likes to provoke us to do things he likes to provoke us to commit sin
now
Exodus chapter 30 go ahead and turn to Exodus chapter number 30
And I'll explain to you, and I just preached about this in a sermon not too long ago about
Why you're not supposed to?
Number the people or what you're supposed to do when you number the people
But I just want to go over it again real quick anyway in case you weren't here for that sermon
Or you weren't paying attention
Exodus chapter 30 verse 11
So when Israel numbered the people it was for a purpose
It wasn't just because you want to just see how many people you have in your standing army
This was something that the Lord wanted to do when he was ready to go to war for a purpose
Okay, here's what it says in verse 11 and the Lord spake unto Moses saying when thou takest the sum of the children of Israel
After their number then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord
When thou number'st them that there be no plague among them when thou number'st them
So in order to do this census that he's asked Joab to carry out there had to be
There had to be an accounting of some
Monetary value they were supposed to pay a sum to do this
They were supposed to count, but while they do this they're supposed to collect
Something look what it says and they shall give every one of them
everyone that passeth among them that are numbered half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary a shekel is 20 Giras and
Half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord
Everyone that passeth among them that are numbered from 20 years old and above shall give an offering unto the Lord
The rich shall not give more and the poor shall not give less
Than half a shekel when they give an offering unto the Lord to make an atonement for your souls
And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation
That it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord to make an atonement for your souls
So in order to do a census like this they had to give this half shekel now David did not command this to take place
This is kind of an unsanctioned
Census that he's doing and so this is why Joab's like why are you doing this and
Because he's he knows that he's not doing it according to what the Bible says
which again, this is Joab asking about why David isn't doing something right, which is kind of funny, but
This is
You know a failure on David's part, so he already had that that big failure with Bathsheba
And this is another incident. You know of course years have passed since then you know we go chapter by chapter
And then like we think oh, this is just the next chapter this just happened the next day or something
But years have passed since then we don't know exactly how many but this has been years since that all happened and now
David is messing up again, so
but it says
Let's go to Matthew chapter 4 so but here's the thing David does
Picture Jesus Christ a lot. He you know in a lot of different ways pictures Christ and he
Jesus Christ is called you know the seed of David and all that
But here in this instance. He's tempted of the devil
he's provoked of Satan himself, but he does not pass the test does he and
So this is where David fails. This is where David. You know we've seen David fail. You know many times, but
No more
Yeah, I mean this is like the second worst thing that he's done and and you know obviously he's done other things that are are
Not exactly 100% correct, but this is probably his second biggest failure
They did that he ever does the first thing being the matter of Uriah the Hittite
Which was the biggest thing that he ever did wrong, but this one is second and
so it says
Matt did I have you turn to Matthew 4 turn to Matthew 4 did I have you turn to Matthew 4, okay?
So now David is this is you know I would say this is a type of when the when the devil tempts Christ
You know but but I think this is showing us that nobody's gonna be able to pass when the devil
Hims this is Satan himself tempting David. You know most of the time
I don't think Satan himself is gonna come and tempt you he's gonna send one of his minions
He probably is reserved for doing you know like when he he
Enters into Judas Iscariot. That's one of one of Jesus's right-hand guys basically or at least you know one of his twelve and
Satan is going to enter into the beast himself, but you don't see Satan possess every single person
he possesses
Judas, and then he does possess the beast he possesses the Antichrist
But that's the only two times you ever see him or the snake at the beginning in the Garden of Eden
But possessing someone you know I mean, maybe he does possess other people
I don't know, but in Scripture you only see him possess this the serpent
Judas and then the Antichrist in the Bible
So and I'm again. I'm not saying he doesn't go to other people. You know he messes with Job. We know that for sure
But as far as messing with every individual on the planet, we don't really know that he does that for sure or not
But this specific time he does go right to David. Who's the leader of all Israel and
Tempts him to what to number the people and what's he get him to do he gets him to do it right away
He also resists Joshua and Zerubbabel
You know when they come back
from the
captivity
Satan trying to resist him with his right you know without his right hand so those that's another one
I just thought of but look at Matthew 4 1 it says
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted forty days and
Forty nights he was afterward and hungered
When and when the tempter came to him he said if thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread
so
Jesus is so much better than we are and so much more
Holy than we are that he even went 40 days and 40 nights without food
And then the first thing he did was say hey make these stones into bread
Like the thing that he's probably thinking about the most because Jesus Christ is also a human being you know
Nice fresh baked bread could he have made those stones into bread. He probably could have made those stones into bread, but I mean
Yeah, anybody that's not eating for 40 days and 40 nights is probably gonna want a piece of bread, but what's he saying?
But he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone
But by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God
So he answers him with Scripture
then the devil take up take him up to the holy city and
Seteth him upon a pinnacle of the temple and sayeth unto him if thou be the Son of God cast thyself down
For it is written he shall give his angels charge concerning thee and
In their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash by foot against the stone
Jesus sayeth unto him it is written again thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God
Well, I was studying for the sermon. I was thinking man
That's kind of a good a good verse to use to prove Jesus's deity
Because he said, you know because he's tempting Christ right and he says thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God
So, I mean that kind of seems like he's saying that he's God right there in a way, right?
And then it says again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding
high mountain and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world and
The glory of them and sayeth unto him all these things
Will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me then sayeth Jesus unto him get thee hence Satan
For it is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve
Then the devil leaveth him and behold angels came and ministered unto him. So
Jesus passes the test but none of us is gonna pass that test
None of us as human beings. We're not gonna be able to pass tests like that
Where and but Jesus kind of passed tests that were super extreme and
This this little passage here shows us just how great Jesus Christ was because none of us are gonna be able to pass those things
Up, I mean he's saying here. Here's the whole world
Just all you have to do just bow down once and all this stuff will be yours
None of us are gonna be able to pass that test. I mean, maybe maybe we could I don't know
But like that's those are pretty tempting offers, aren't they? I
Mean I don't know I guess we're never we've never been put in those situations
but I'm sure that the devil does give offers like that to certain people and
You know, maybe not quite that big of an offer
But there are people that are children abelial and I believe that he probably does people do get things
You know, you hear those things about people selling their soul to the devil and all that kind of stuff
I'm not sure that he shows up at a crossroads in a cornfield somewhere and writes their name in blood or whatever
I don't know but
This seems like there's a lot of people out there that
Somehow they're blessed but it's not the blessing of God obviously when they're having to do all this demonic stuff and sing all you know
It's like Bob Dylan
like he has this interview where he's
Talking about how he sold his soul and then he doesn't really want to say who he sold his soul to he's like
you know the big one the big guy or whatever and it's like
He's he's saying that he sold his soul to the devil
He said that he used to be able to write music and it just came to him and he's wrote it really well
But now he said I could not write those songs again. He said I can't write music like that anymore. Why is that?
Well, he probably just wrote everything the devil gave to him and now he's just waiting to croak and go to hell. I mean
but anyway
David could not resist the temptation. What was the temptation?
Whatever pride he had was that he's this great warrior king and he wanted to
show just how great his standing army was that he had built that he feels like he built and
well, and you know the devil will come to us in different ways or
Devils will come to us in different ways to push our buttons
I'm not saying he can possess us
You know if you're saved the devil cannot possess you or Devils cannot possess you but they might be able to influence you
You know kind of influence hey, you know, this is a good option, you know
There's a good job waiting for you down in Timbuktu or whatever where you know
There's no good church to go to but you'll make a lot of money, you know stuff like that
Or whatever it is that you might fancy and get you
Out of the way, you know, we're supposed to stay, you know
there's a way that we should go and we don't want to veer off the path of
Righteousness that we're supposed to be on turn to 1st Peter chapter 5 verse 8 1st Peter chapter 5 verse 8
1st Peter chapter 5 verse 8 the Bible says
Be sober be vigilant
Because your adversary the devil has a roaring lion walketh about
Seeking whom he may devour
So we're supposed to be sober. That means we're supposed to be paying attention
We're supposed to be awake and be serious about things and it says be vigilant
You can't just be caught with your guard down. We're supposed to be paying attention to what's going on. Why because our adversary our
adversary he's our enemy the devil as a
Roaring lion walks about seeking who may meet he may devour, you know, roaring lions are scary
We don't have to mess with them too much
You might have seen one in the zoo before you might have even heard one roar at the zoo before
But imagine living in Africa where you actually have to be in fear of your life because of them it's a whole nother story
I mean we have mountain lions, but how many has ever actually seen one in the wild before?
Okay, I've seen them twice in my whole life and both times
They were crossing a road when I was out just driving around in the mountains and one of them was pretty big and I was
In the back of a truck, so it was a little scary, but I was a kid
But I mean, that's the only two times I've ever seen them out in the wild
But you know they can stalk you they can kill you and they will
So you got to be vigilant out there when you're out walking in the forest and and cats, you know, they're pretty stealthy
You think that they you know, they're gonna make a whole bunch of noise when they're sneaking up on you. They're not
You know, I had a pastor
in Eastern Oregon and
I'd seen this like program on PBS and it said there's only been like two
Mountain lion attacks and like the last however many years and mountain lions aren't really dangerous and you know
They're giving this liberal perspective. That's because people just don't report them
But he said he had his he was out like I don't know by Legrand somewhere and he had his his bow drawn on an elk
And he said that he hurt he just heard like this kind of rustling behind him and he had his bow drawn
He turned and it was a cat, you know and cats do that little thing with their paws
It was doing that right was about because all cats do that when they're about to pounce on something even big ones and
He said that his I said he was just paralyzed with fear
and he pulled the bow and the cat jumped and when it jumped he just let go and it hit the cat right in the
Belly and then it flew into like a it just kind of you know
Wigged out, you know when it hit it and then it flew into this ravine and he just like said he just sat there paralyzed
For a second he couldn't even move and he got it but like if he had to turn around
That cat was gonna get him and that would have been the third attack
They might not have ever found him
I mean people go out into the woods and then they never hear of him again
They're like, yeah, these hunters are just disappearing in the woods. Well, what do you think's happening to them?
They're probably breaking something or falling down something or something's eating them possibly anyway, but lions
That's what they do they stalk you and they wait for you to not be vigilant they wait for you to not be sober and
They want to devour you they want to eat you. That's what the devil wants to do
He wants to get into our life somehow and destroy it
He wants to resist the steadfast in the face says whom resists the steadfast in the faith
Hey, we all want to believe that we're so steadfast that nothing could ever get into our life and cause havoc and destroy it
but
That's just not true. We have long lives to live
Christianity is measured by decades and not by you know as months
It's measured by decades and hey if you want to make it through this long life of Christianity
You still have to wait. You have to realize that we are
Stalked we are stalked like by predators. There's predators everywhere and we have a predator that lives in our own body
It's called the flesh
So not only we have to worry about this devil this
entity called Satan that hates our guts and wants to kill us and destroy our lives and destroy our marriage and destroy our children to
destroy our faith and destroy our testimony and everything that we've built in this life as far as
What's Christ has done in our life?
But then we also have to worry about the flesh that we have in our own bodies
I mean we have a lot of stuff that's stacked against us
But let me not get ahead of myself too much, let's turn over to Revelation chapter 12
Revelation chapter 12 look at verse number 4
Revelation chapter 12 verse number 4
now
Satan still has access to the throne of God even to this day
I don't believe that Satan has been cast out completely with his Devils
He still has access just like he had access
To go when the sons of God would go to the throne of God in the book of Job
He still has that access today to do what to accuse us to accuse the brethren day and night. That's what he does and
When he sets traps for us or his Devils set traps for us then he goes
Hey, did you see what so-and-so did last week? Hey, did you see what so-and-so did when you know?
You think that they're so great. Well, look what they did
This is what they did and then you know it then God that kind of forces God to move against us
because God does have to punish sin God does have to punish his children and
You know it kind of we have all these just like I said, we have all these things working against us
so yes, we're forgiven but
You know because we're not bastards and we're sons
You know we have this entity called Satan and his minions that are just constantly trying to mess with us
then he has these reprobates on earth that also mess with us, and then he deceives the whole world and
So people that are deceived don't realize that they're messing with us
But they are there's whole systems in place where you know they might not even realize what they're doing is
Messing with us, but it is and so we have all these things stacked against us look at verse number four in Revelation chapter 12
it says and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and
Did cast them to the earth and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered for
To devour her child as soon as it was born now
I believe this talking about Jesus being born and
Herod was ready to kill and because the dragon was trying to have Jesus die when he was born
But look how it says his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven
This is this is talking about the devil. He he had a third of the angels
Convinced that God was bad too, and he took them. You know he he basically convinced a third of the angels to go bad with him
Why do I think that well well I'll get to that here in just a second, but skip down to verse number nine
so and that's like
millions of of
demonic beings so
Revelation 12 9 says and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and
Satan so it tells us who this dragon is this dragon was around in the Garden of Eden it says that old serpent
That's how it identifies that and it says who's in and it's the devil and Satan
So the Bible is telling us exactly who this dragon is which deceiveth the whole world
So just because they're not they might not be reprobates, but they are deceived. They're deceived by religion. That's not true
They're deceived by
Systems in this world that are not true it might just be that they're atheists or just that they don't believe in anything
They might just have some weird belief, that's not just not true, but they are deceived nonetheless
And it says and he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him
So that's how you connect that you connect that with verse 4 where it says his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven
You see that
verse 10 and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now has come salvation and
Strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of our brethren is cast down
So here the Bible is telling us that he is the accuser of the brethren who's the brethren it's us
That's this is what Satan does he accuses us, and it says which accused them before our God day and night
This is what he does. This is what he where he gets his jollies or whatever is just
Accusing us before God day and night and not just us in this room
but anybody that's considered the brethren and
so when the brethren are messing up then God has to punish sin and
So we are at a big disadvantage because we have someone constantly on there like a tattletale
Satan's like a tattletale. He's just like I didn't see what they did. I get I'm God God just probably like
You know it just it's it stinks to have somebody all
Who went to school or whatever and had?
Someone always tell those the tattletale to the teacher though like the brown nose or at the teeth to the teacher
You know what I'm talking about. I was shining up the Apple and you know
Yeah, I don't know maybe those days are long gone
But you know there's that person that is always just snitching to the teacher about stuff or or just even at work
even at work if you work a job, and they're always just like trying to nose up to the teacher or whatever to the to the
boss and
Accuse you of things that you didn't do
But it really stinks when there's somebody that can see things that we do and then bring that to God
It's embarrassing you know we probably get talked about all the time. We just don't even realize it
In fact we do that's what the Bible says right
Now look at verse 17 it says and the dragon was wroth with the woman and went to make war
with the remnant of her seed
we are at war folks and
This obviously is talking about in the end times and stuff, but like we're at war now, too. He's doing this right now
which keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of
Jesus Christ in the end of course is you know when he's cast down at the earth
You know he's gonna have a short time, and then we get to finally have a rest from all this
but
It's not just the devil and his minions and his reprobates and his deceived people, but it's also
You know it's a hard fight that we have to go through our life is not super simple
Getting saved is super simple getting saved. You know it's once saved always saved. It's believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
that's the easy part, but
We also after being saved the hard part is picking up our cross daily and following after him
The hard part is living the Christian life all the time
The hard part is coming to church three times a week the hard part is going soul winning once a week the hard top the hard
part is
You know
Inacting the things that we learn in church into our life and our daily life the hard part is raising children the hard part is
You know being single and still living for God the hard part is
Getting along with your spouse over every single thing that you're supposed to living
You know a Christian life in front of everybody. That's a hard. That's hard this stuff is hard. It's not easy because we have the flesh
so
Let's look at Galatians chapter 5 Galatians chapter 5
You're like this sermons not really covering a lot of track. Well. I'm not gonna finish the whole sermon tonight
So just ease up you're all right
Galatians chapter 5 verse 16
Galatians 5 I mean I'm gonna. I'm not gonna finish the whole chapter is what I mean not the whole sermon
I'm gonna finish the whole sermon, but not the whole chapter all right, so Galatians 5 16 the Bible says
This I say then walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh and
You might say well, that's easier said than done pastor it is
Easier said than done. It's not easy to always walk in the spirit
Is it says for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary?
The one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would
The Apostle Paul has these same issues in Romans chapter 7. He said the things that I hate those are the things that I do
And he said oh wretched man that I am how who shall deliver me from this body of death
We are in a body of death this flesh has to die before we can put on immortal flesh and don't kill yourself
Okay, because then you're not gonna be able to do all these great works and stuff that you need to do here
And you know it's a sin obviously
But Paul's just saying you know when he says that it's like hey, I struggle with the flesh. He says I am carnal
You know people say you can't be carnal and still be a Christian well the Apostle Paul was
And he was one of the greatest Christians that ever lived
Well, this is what you know false prophets and false teachers will say that you you know you can just be a perfect
Sinless Christian, and that's just not true
We should strive to be we should strive to be the best Christians. We can we should strive to not sin
Obviously, but you know we're just it's gonna be a tough road to do that
but it's so
It says that these things are contrary one to the other and I do like that I
Do like that teaching where it's like if you feed one
More than the other that's the one that's gonna win, so if you feed you know if you got two dogs
I like this that that that teaching that you got two dogs one is the the carnal dog and one's the spiritual dog
You feed the spiritual dog more and that spiritual dog is gonna win over the carnal dog
You know you it's whatever one you feed the more the one that's going to win
You know if you starve out the carnal dog then the spiritual dogs gonna win and be able to control most of your life
But if you just let that carnal dog always take over and he's gonna beat that spiritual dog up because the spiritual dog
Doesn't you know if the spiritual dogs supposed to be reading the Bible you know the spirit
You know obviously dogs can't read the Bible, but anyway
That's where it falls apart right, but if you just take just take the spiritual man in the carnal man
The flesh loves to be fed things of the flesh and the spirit loves to be fed the things of the spirit
The spirit wants you to pray the spirit wants you to read the Bible
The spirit wants you to go soul winning the spirit wants you to go to church the spirit wants you to be engulfed in the things
That are spiritual things of God
But the flesh wants you to watch and see and hear and do things
That are lustful to the flesh, and this is the battle. This is the battle that rages in us every single day
You know whenever you're awake
You know 24 7 3 6 5 this is what we deal with and you're like pastor. This is not very
You know edifying well
But the thing is we have something that other people don't have we have the Holy Spirit
We have advantages that other people don't have we have God on our side
We have the Holy Spirit, and so we're able to do things that other people can't do
The the world that's deceived they don't even know what it's like to even have the Holy Spirit
So we have advantages that other people don't have let's go back to first Chronicles chapter 21 verse 4
So yeah, it seems frustrating that we have all this stuff against us
You know, but David you know he had the Holy Spirit also, and he messed up, too
But you know what he did get God he understood what what God he understood what God wanted
And he understood that he needed the Holy Spirit. He knew he understood how to ask for forgiveness
He understood what he was supposed to do when he sinned and see sometimes
I think that Christians forget that we have an advocate
Jesus Christ the righteous we have one mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus
We have someone that we can count on someone that already bore all those burdens for us at Calvary
Someone that already walked with that cross and
Someone had already got crucified for us someone already got his beard ripped out for us someone already
They got punched in the face for us someone had already bled and died for us
someone that
Paid that heavy ransom that we couldn't pay and he has big shoulders his burden is light
and his yoke
His light his his burden is light his yoke is light. Oh, you know we don't have to bury to
Bear that heavy burden look at 1st Chronicles chapter 21 verse 4 says nevertheless the Kings word prevailed against Joab
Obviously he's gonna win out right he's the king
Wherefore Joab departed and went through all Israel and came to Jerusalem and Joab gave the sum of the number of the people
unto David and all they of Israel were a
Thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword
So that's a 1.1 million standing army. That's a pretty big army isn't it and Judah was four hundred thousand or
400 three score and ten thousand men that drew sword so that's four hundred and seventy thousand men just out of Judah
That drew sword so this is what David's counting David's counting all the men 20 years old and upward
That can fight in a battle, so this is like him just wanting to know how
You know how tough is my army how many swords do I have who can take me on this is a pride thing
It says, but Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them for the Kings word was and was abominable
to Joab so Joab was
ticked off
He didn't want to even count those two tribes just because he was so irritated with David
And it says in God was displeased with this thing therefore
He smote Israel, and I've already said this before but whenever it says God is displeased people die
so to us displeased might mean
You know like a very mild. I'm just very displeased with you right now
But when God when it says God's displeased people literally if you just do a word search on it
When when men say they're displeased not that big of a deal
But when God says that people are literally just dying every time like the first time. It's using the Bible. I think he kills
Like he kills
Ornan or something then yeah, he just killing people when it happens so
He kills date. You know when the first time he uses it with David is when he commits adultery with Bathsheba, so
anyway, um
So it says therefore he smote Israel
So he's mad at what David did so he's smiting the nation of Israel it says and David said unto God I
Have sinned greatly because I've done this thing
But now I beseech thee do away the iniquity of thy servant for I have done very foolishly
now this is
This is like the right way to respond when someone says hey, you know
You've done something wrong and David like David just realizes it
When people start dying David just realizes hey, I've done something wrong. This is my fault and why are they dying well?
What would have what what what would happen in?
Exodus it says that they're gonna start being plagued if they didn't give that sacrifice that half shekel well
That's exactly what starts happening so
God starts smiting Israel, and it says David says I've done foolishly. I've sinned greatly
I've done this thing I beseech thee do away with the iniquity of thy servant for I've done very foolishly
So David you know he's a man after God's own heart not because he never sins
but because when he does he owns it and
Doesn't make excuses about it. He admits it he apologizes to God for it, and he makes it right
That's the opposite of what a lot of people do when they get called to the carpet about things
They don't want to admit it they don't want to say that they've sinned they want to make excuses
Oh, it's so-and-so's fault. It's somebody else's fault, and they never want to just admit that they've done the sin
That's how most people do what did Adam and Eve do they try to hide from God good luck doing that
They try to hide from God, and that's what a lot of people do too
We try to hide what we've done we try to cover up what we've done
We try to just make excuses instead of just owning what we do and just say yep, I did it
forgive me
We don't we just we don't
Respond the way we should I think this is why God just loved David so much because when he's when he does it
He's like I did it. I've sinned I've sinned greatly because I've done this thing and then he's like I beseech you that means
That he's begging God to do away with the iniquity that he's done. I've done very foolishly see how he's saying I
Now normally when you say I I I it's a bad thing, but when you're saying I've done
The wicked things then he's owning what he did
Usually when people say I I I then it's usually a bad thing
But he's now owning it
And a lot of people just refuse to own what they've done and that's the problem
So look at Psalm chapter 51 now David writes this Psalm
Specifically because of what he did with Bathsheba. We're not gonna go through the whole thing, but we're gonna go through some of the verses here
Psalm
Chapter 51
It says to the chief musician a psalm of David when Nathan the Prophet came
unto him after he had gone in to Bathsheba, so that's the header that's not
You know preserved scripture, but that's the heading of the title of the psalm
So
Take that for what it means, but anyway it says have mercy upon me
Oh God according to thy loving kindness according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies
blot out my transgressions
Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin
For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me
See that is not the attitude of someone that's blaming other people. It's just you know he's just owning it
Against thee thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be
Justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest
So again he's saying I have sinned and this and against thee he's he's saying like you know obviously
He's sinned against other people
But he does understand that God is the only one that he that can make him right before him
Skip down to verse 9 says hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities
Create me a clean heart. Oh God and renew a right spirit within me
See when we sin
You know it does do something to us, and it makes our heart not right
And so when we go to God, and we just say you know we go with the first John 1 9. You know where we
It says if we confess our if we confess our sins
He's faithful and just forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
You know we fail to do that. We kind of have this
Shameful feeling about what we've done and unless you just go to God and do what David's doing right here
then you're gonna feel that shameful feeling and
So that's what God. That's what David's doing here is he's saying hey create me a clean heart
You know clean my heart up and renew a right spirit within me because if you have
Unconfessed sin sin that you're just you know just you're you're making excuses for it
then then your spirit is not right your heart is not right and
You have to fix that and only God can do that for you
this is cast me not away from my presence and take not by Holy Spirit from me and
The advantage we have as New Testament believers is that God cannot take his Holy Spirit from us. He will not do it
It's a promise that we have in the New Testament now. God could have taken David's the Holy Spirit from David
but he didn't and
So David's asking him not to do that
But the that's see that's one of the advantages that we have that other people do not have in this life as
we cannot have the Holy Spirit taken from us and
It says restore unto me the joy of thy salvation
But that can be taken away from us if we're lit if we're not living right if we're not
Living the Christian life if we're not
Fulfilling what God wants for us in our lives
Then our joy of salvation can be taken from us because we're not right with God
And it says and uphold with and uphold me with thy
free spirit see the spirit we've been given has been
freely given to us and
You know when we have that joy of our salvation
Restored in our spirit. It feels good. That's why it's called joy
It feels great to you know when we go into the house of the Lord
we're excited to be here because we want to you know God to show us something special to
To you know just rejoice with the Saints and to fellowship together and to sing unto the Lord and
To hear God's Word preached and those things excite us. We should be excited about being in God's house
We should be excited about the things of the Lord and when we lose our joy of salvation we have you know
When our hearts not right our spirit is not right when our heart is not clean. We're not gonna feel that way
We tend to just hide and we and people might not see it
We might not show it to other people, but it does exist and
Like I said, we just try to hide those feelings and people might not even see him, but they're there
It says then I will teach
transgressors thy ways and
sinners shall be converted unto thee
now there's been a lot of talk lately about
Having to be right with God before you can go soul-winding or something and I would say that it's probably good
To have your heart as right as possible to go soul-winding
But that's not what I think that David's saying here
I think that David's saying here is that I want my heart to be as right as possible
So that I will feel that feeling of wanting to do that
Because let's just face it if we're not feeling very spiritual if we feel like everything's you know
Going wrong in our life because we're not living right because we have a deep because David look he's
repenting here of a great sin that he's committed and let's just face it that none of us want to read our Bible when we're
Feeling sinful. None of us want to go to church when we're feeling sinful
None of us want to go soul-winding when we're feeling sinful
None of us want to pray to God when we're feeling sinful
None of us want to do anything spiritual when we're feeling sinful when we feel like we failed
Nobody wants to do
Spiritual things when we do when we're feeling that way and this is what David is saying
He's like I want that joy back of my salvation
Cast me not away from my presence because you know what we don't feel very close to God
When we've been sinning we don't feel that closeness
because we're we're the ones that feel that way and
Really? We're not close with them the more sinful we are the less close we feel that's just the way it is
That's why Adam and Eve are hiding behind trees
Thinking they're gonna just escape God's presence
Yeah, we're just gonna escape God can see everything
God knows exactly where he's like calling them, but like he knows where they're at
You know
But
David wants that feeling back. That's what I mean this psalm is about him wanting to get right with God again
It's not like I can't go soul-winning
until
I'm a hundred percent right with everything. That's not I don't think that's what he's saying, but he is saying that he wants to
Be right with God, and he's gonna be the you know I think that we will be the most effective
But look we you can still go soul-winning when you have sin in your life because look everybody has sin in their life
everybody does and
To say well, I'm just gonna wait to go soul-winning until I don't have any sin in my life
You're fooling yourself if you think that that's what's that's what it is. That's gonna happen
You're never gonna have all the sin out of your life
And look I don't I don't know anybody that believes in our church or any other church that
You can just you know live like the devil all week
And then your soul-winning is gonna wipe away all the sin that you did last week nobody believes that I
Don't know anybody that believes that I don't know anybody that believes that they can just be the
most wicked wife-beating
child abusing
Deep you know drink all day
You know do drugs all week
And then just show up for the soul-winning and all your sins are washed away or some nobody thinks that that is insane
That is not what anybody believes that I know if you believe that come talk to me after church. I'll straighten you out
But nobody believes that
And
This whole thing you know look Paul said I am the chief of sinners
If he would have waited till he was the the greatest man alive
He would have never have gone out soul-winning
If he would just lived in the guilt of what he did he would have never went out and knocked every single door
Because remember he was known for knocking doors in a different in a different way before he went out knocking doors for the right reasons
I'm sure when he started knocking doors at first people like what are you here for Paul? You know like people that knew who he was
but
He became a great man, and he still struggled with sin. Just like everybody else does look everybody struggles with sin
Don't let people make you feel guilty that you are a sinner, and you still go soul-winning
Don't listen to that garbage. It's not true
Oh
What it says in verse 14
Deliver me from blood guiltiness. Oh God thou God of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness
See you're seeing the songs a little more deeply with a lot more meaning
When you have a clean conscience don't you oh?
Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall show forth thy praise
For thou deservest or excuse me thou desirest not sacrificed else would I give it
Thou delightest not in burnt offering the sacrifices of God or a broken spirit a broken and
Contrite heart Oh God thou will not despise
Is it true? Yes, we we should have a broken
Heart and a broken spirit about the things that we do and if you never feel bad about the things that you do
you probably should
Find a way to feel bad about it. I
Mean if you're calloused over that much. That's why God said harden not your hearts
You know let that cut those calluses away and let something affect you
Because if you're not ever affected by the things that you do then you definitely need some help you need
Some help dealing with your sin
And if you never confess your sins before God you never try to get right with God about anything
Then you you do need to work on that and get right with God
I'm not saying live like the devil and go so in any way, but if you're sinful and you go out soul winning praise God
Because nothing's gonna help you. You know get that love back for Christ more than going so winning you start thinking hey
Look at this person's life look how look how bad off they are and you start feeling like hey, maybe my problems aren't so bad
Maybe I remember my life was like this I
remember when I felt this lost and you start caring about people and
Start stop focusing as much about the your little woes that you have because our woes
You know we're gonna forget about those in eternity. We're gonna have a lot of
better
Situation than a lot of people that we walk on their knock on their doors
You know when's the last time you beg someone to get saved was the last time you begged someone to?
You know to just call upon the name of the Lord. What's the last time you cared about somebody?
because those things do matter and
Those will help you have a more contrite heart about about things
There's a quote that says either this book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book and
I think that's from John Bunyan
I don't really necessarily like the person that quoted the made the quote if that's really him that did it who knows sometimes quotes are
From other people too, but that's where I got where I think that the quotes from but it's still true nonetheless whoever the quotes from
It's true
Because when we don't feel spiritual
We're not gonna want to read this book
That's the truth
And then there's that other saying that says sin will take you farther than you want to go
Keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay that is also true
And the deeper into sin we get the less spiritual we're gonna get and then our sin is gonna come
The chickens are gonna come home to roost
and so we don't you know from
You know we all struggle with sin
But like if you're deep into some kind of sin that you feel like you can't get out of you know
like take this prayer of David and read over it a few times and
Get your heart with God
so
Look at verse
Back to our chapter verse 9 verse 9
Actually, I don't have I don't have time to get into it I
Don't all right well, we'll close there, but
You know David
Our advantages are though is that
We do have the Holy Spirit. We are saved if you're saved
You know we have a great advantage, and we you know I don't I wasn't trying to depress you tonight. I really
Just think that
you know we should be thankful for the opportunities that we do have the fact that we are saved and
You know if we're struggling
Then we have to do we have to do something about it
Nobody else can do it for you. We know our own hearts. We know what's going on in our own lives and
You know running from our problems isn't gonna help hiding from our problems isn't gonna
Help blaming other people for our problems isn't gonna. Help. We have to own our own problems and
You know obviously
Help is there for us from God
Help is there for us from you know whoever's in our family our support systems and things like that
But we cannot just blame where we live where we're at
In you know any other situation. We are responsible for our own actions and our own sins and
Our own happiness
You know if you're not happy do something to make yourself happy if you're not
if you're you know
Hurtin and you're in sin, then ask God to forgive you and move forward and repent
You know I am gonna say repent of your sins repent of your sins as a Christian and move forward
I mean yes some of these are like high places that we have to try to conquer in our lives
You know
But God can help us
That's the advantage we have is that God I mean we have all the devil's because we have Satan we have the devil's
We have all these minions against us. He's accusing us night and day, but we have the Holy Spirit. They don't
God is still the God of Satan, and he still tells him what to do
He still can't touch us unless God gives him permission
Don't don't let him give him permission
You know and sometimes he still lets him have permission anyway with job we saw that, but we can't help that
All we can do is try to pass the test and come forth as gold
job did so
Let's pray well
We thank you so much for this chapter of the Bible and Lord as we can see through the life of David Lord
He made mistakes and so do we Lord help us to see ourselves in
The characters in the Bible and Lord help us to do what they do
Especially the great ones Lord like King David that he's such a great example to us and Lord even though he wasn't perfect
We know that we're not either and that we can come to you and and get our hearts, right?
or to pray that you'd help us Lord where we're lacking and we're
Help us to take stock and what we're doing in our own lives and help us to
To fix the things that we're failing in Lord and pray that you just bless us bless this church Lord
thank you for everybody that came on a Thursday night and
Hey, you just bless them for the rest of this weekend Lord bring us back to church on Sunday
Keep us all healthy in Jesus name we pray amen
No, sorry about that
Sweet mine by page 41 on the first there's a land that is fairer than day
And by faith we can see it up
For the father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there
In the sweet
By and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore
In the sweet
By and by
We shall meet on that beautiful
shore
We shall sing on that beautiful
The melody is songs of the West and our spirit shall
Not a sigh for the blessing of rest
in the sweet
By and by
We shall meet on that beautiful
shore
in the sweet
By and by
We shall meet on that beautiful
on the last to our bountiful father
We will offer our tribute of praise
For the glorious gift of his love
And the blessings that hallow our days
By and by
We shall meet on that beautiful
shore
in the sweet
By and by
We shall meet on that beautiful
Shore
Coming out tonight. We'd love to see you back here Sunday and appreciate you singing out to the Lord this evening
Brother Robert, can you end us with the word of prayer?