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If you need a bulletin, just lift up your hand and
Brother Mikey will bring you a bulletin. Anybody else need one?
Just raise your hand.
Anybody else?
Right on the front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says, Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name.
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
Psalm chapter 29 verse 2. Great scripture there.
On our inside page there we have our service times.
1030 a.m. for the Sunday morning service.
Sunday evening service 330 p.m.
Thursday Bible study 630 p.m.
We have soul winning today at 1 p.m.
And the maps are already in the WhatsApp group.
If you are not in the WhatsApp group and you normally don't go soul winning with our church.
If you want to go to see Brother Sean Conlon.
I don't see him.
I'll see Brother Alex.
Is Sean Conlon preaching somewhere?
He's in Seattle.
Brother Alex is leading today.
If you want to go soul winning today, just see Brother Alex after the service.
He'll make sure you get the map and the address of where to go.
Otherwise just meet in here in the auditorium at 1 p.m.
And then if you look down you can see the praise report.
The salvation, baptisms, and attendance totals.
Is there still a baptism happening Brother Robert?
No it's not happening.
We were supposed to have a baptism.
Is it really happening?
I don't know.
We were supposed to have a baptism.
Is it rescheduled for a different time?
Next week.
No.
I'll be back the 6th.
So that weekend will be fine though.
So anyway.
Let's see.
The attendance from last week.
Let's see.
The men's preaching night is going to be tonight for the evening service.
Did anybody prepare a sermon for tonight?
One, two.
That's it.
Alright.
So we have two.
Alright.
Three.
Can I get a fourth?
Can I get another witness in here?
I think that Remy might be preaching.
Okay.
So that would be four.
Alright.
Well then that would give you 15 minutes.
So that will give you an extra five minutes.
So if there's four guys.
15 minutes each.
So September 13th through 15th is the Shure Foundation Baptist Church North 6th Anniversary.
So we also have Brother Justin Zong preaching.
He'll be preaching Friday night there at 7 o'clock.
I think there's soul-wanting and a barbecue after on Saturday.
And then let's see Sunday I'll be preaching.
There will be another barbecue.
So you know it's Baptist Church.
So you get the point there.
Yeah so it's going to be a fun weekend up there.
So if you haven't been up to Vancouver, B.C. in a while.
Or you just have never been there ever.
It's beautiful up there.
And hopefully it will remain beautiful.
We're kind of getting our fall weather early this year it seems like.
So I saw some kind of a fog the other morning on my camera.
My ring doorbell camera.
I was like what in the world?
It's already getting foggy.
What's going on here?
This is August.
So I know some people like that it's like this.
But we get this that kind of dreary weather all winter long.
So like I actually like summer even though it's hot and I complain about it.
So that's what air conditioning is for.
You can look outside and go oh it's nice.
And then just like be inside you know.
So and then like it seems like the cold and flu season is already among us also.
And the COVID season.
Anyway so maybe we should start taking universal precautions early.
So just be aware of that.
If you have a running issue maybe stay home.
And so let's see what else we got.
The family and friends weekend is going to be October 5th and 6th.
And that will be Pastor Mendez is going to come.
And he's going to be with us at the annual pumpkin patch trip.
And so he's bringing up his whole family.
And so that's really kind of the weekend that Verity Baptist Vancouver started.
So it'll it'll be like really like the eighth anniversary of our church being in existence.
So six years is a sure foundation and eight years as a ministry and a whole here.
So he'll also be preaching for us Sunday night.
So that would be a blessing to have Pastor Mendez here to preach for us.
So hopefully everybody plans on attending and invite some friends and family to the pumpkin patch.
We'll have a sign up probably next month sometime.
So just make sure any children under two I think is as free as it to Miss Rachel.
Do you remember.
Oh it might be three.
OK.
We'll figure it out.
Anyway so mark your calendars for that.
And then if you're wanting to go to the Faithful Word missions conference I think the list of all the speakers and all the topics are up on.
I think they're on Pastor Anderson's Web site but they're also the Faithful Word Web site.
But they're also on Facebook and stuff like that so you can get a copy of the itinerary and all that stuff.
I think brother Dylan Oz is going to be speaking there.
So and if everything goes right and he doesn't screw it up he's supposed to get ordained in like November as the pastor in Oklahoma City.
So that'll be a blessing.
And let's see I didn't get to do the.
Well our tenth grand child was born and I had I got sick like literally like the day or the night she was born.
So that's a blessing.
Ten grandchildren already.
So maybe winter was born and you guys already probably heard the announcement on that.
So we're definitely blessed with grandchildren and hopefully we can stay healthy enough to enjoy them.
It's been a rough bout for me my wife the last couple of weeks here.
So anyway we're all depressed because we've been sick.
So anyway let's see November 6th through 10th.
I already said that.
So Dr. Phil Stringer is coming to preach for us on December 15th and we are kind of kicking the idea around of maybe doing a King James conference in May of next year.
So maybe just you know leading up to him speaking for us because he's speaking again for us in May.
So I'm going to talk to him about possibly just making it a conference and seeing how he feels about that.
So he's he's not he's not new IFB but he's not ashamed of coming and preaching in our church.
He's preaching in our church in Indianapolis on September 11th.
He's preaching for us here in December.
He's preaching for Pastor Shelley like in a couple of weeks I think.
So you know he definitely is lockstep with us on what we believe about the King James Bible.
I think he's preaching about this topic of Calvinism is one of his subjects he's preaching about in December and he's also preaching about the whole topic of there's like a short video he made about people accusing King James of being homosexual.
And he's going to he actually went to England and studied all the documents about all that.
And so he has a really good knowledge of that particular subject.
And so he's going to preach. I asked him to preach about that subject.
So that's not a service you're going to want to miss.
I'm talking about December but May he is coming again.
So it's going to be great to have him if you really like to geek out on the King James stuff.
He's really knowledgeable about that kind of stuff.
So all this other stuff you know we're family integrated in all the tithes and offerings information is down there the rules all that good stuff.
So then we have some birthdays coming up here.
Olivia, Annabelle and Theo.
Where's Theo? Theo?
What's up Theo? How you doing buddy?
How old are you going to be Theo?
Five? Five? Oh it's today. Today's your birthday.
Wow. Can I give you a birthday spanking?
With the spoon?
Five swats is all I'll do.
He's like nope.
How about your dad when he comes home?
Just kidding.
All right. And then Olivia's birthday and Annabelle.
She's not here at the Harrington's.
We have a lot of people out sick today so let's remember to pray for them.
But while we do that we'll sing happy birthday to the people that are here.
So let's sing happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday God bless you.
Happy birthday to you.
All right. That's all I have for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing another song and then we'll receive the offering.
All right. Turning the red or the green to 459.
459. Fairest Lord Jesus.
On the first.
Fairest Lord Jesus.
Ruler of all nations.
Over all of God.
And Memphis song.
Thee will I cherish.
Thee will I own.
Thou my soul's glory, joy and crown.
Fairer the meadows.
Fairer still the boardlands.
Robed in the blooming garb of spring.
Jesus is fairer.
Jesus is purer.
Who makes the woeful whole to sing.
Fairer is the sunshine.
Fairer still the moonlight.
And of all twinkling starry host.
Jesus shines brighter.
Jesus shines purer.
Then all the angels soon can pose.
Beautiful Savior.
Lord of all the nations.
Son of God.
And Son of Man.
Glory and honor.
Praise at oration.
Now and forevermore be thine.
Amen at this time we'll receive the offering.
Brother Alex can you pray for the offering.
Dear Father thank you for our church here.
All brothers and sisters we serve you Father.
And thank you that you've been the way for us in this world.
And that you can give back some of that to you Father.
And we ask you to bless the gift from this river.
And Father you just keep saving your kingdom.
Thank you Father God.
Thank you.
1 Chronicles chapter 7.
As is our custom we will read the whole chapter.
If you do not have a Bible there should be one in the seat in front of you.
1 Chronicles chapter 7 the Bible reads.
Now the sons of Issachar were Tolah and Puah,
Jashab and Shimron four.
And the sons of Tolah, Uzziah and Abba,
Jashab and Shimron four.
And the sons of Tolah, Uzziah and Rephiah,
and Jeriel and Jemiah,
and Jipsam and Shemuel heads of their father's house to wit,
of Tolah they were valiant men of might in their generations
whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
And the sons of Uzziah,
Israel and the sons of Israel Michael,
and Obadiah and Joel,
Isaiah five all of them chief men.
With them by their generations after the house of their fathers were bands of soldiers for war,
six and thirty thousand men for they had many wives and sons.
And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might,
reckoned in all by their genealogies four score and seven thousand.
The sons of Benjamin, Beelah and Bekir,
and Jediel three.
And the sons of Beelah, Esban and Uzziah,
Uzziel and Jerimoth,
and Iri five heads of the house of their fathers mighty men of valor,
and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.
And the sons of Bekir, Zemirah and Joash,
and Eleazar and Eleoni and Omri,
and Jerimoth and Abiah and Anathoth and Alometh.
All of these are the sons of Bekir.
And the number of them after their genealogy by their generations heads of the house of their fathers
mighty men of valor was twenty thousand and two hundred.
The sons also of Jediel, Bilhan and the sons of Bilhan,
Jeash and Benjamin and Ehad,
and Kaniyana and Zethan and Tharshish and Ahishahar.
All these the sons of Jediel by the heads of their fathers mighty men of valor
were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers,
fit to go out for war and battle.
Shepim also and Hupim, the children of Ur and Hushim the sons of Ahir,
the sons of Naphtali, Jaziel and Gunai,
Jezer and Shalom, the sons of Bilhah,
the sons of Manasseh,
Ashriel whom she bare but his concubine,
the Eremites bare Makar the father of Gilead.
And Makar took to wife the sister of Hupim and Shepim whose sister's name was Maika,
and the name of the second was Zelophehad,
and Zelophehad had daughters.
And Maika the wife of Makar bare a son and she called his name Piresh,
and the name of his brother was Shirash,
and his sons were Ulam and Rekim,
and the sons of Ulam, Bedan,
these were the sons of Gilead the son of Makar the son of Manasseh,
and his sister Hamolikath bare Eishad,
and Abiezer and Maalah,
and the sons of Shemitah were Ahian and Shechem,
and Likhai and Anaim,
and the sons of Ephraim,
and Shuthala bare and his son Tihath his son,
and Elad his son and Tihath his son,
and Zabad his son and Shuthala his son,
and Ezer and Eliyad whom the men of Gath that were born in that land slew
because they came down to take away their cattle.
And Ephraim their father mourn many days,
and his brethren came to comfort him.
And when he went into his wife,
she conceived and bare a son and he called his name Beriah
because it went evil with his house.
his house, and his daughter was She-ra, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper,
and Uzzin-she-ra, and Re-fa was his son.
Also Re-shef and Te-la his son, and Te-han his son, La-ed-in his son, Am-i-hud his son,
El-e-shahma his son, Na-n his son, Je-hoshua his son.
And their possessions and habitations were Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward
Na-ron and westward Ge-zer and the towns thereof, She-kom also and the towns thereof,
unto Ge-za and the towns thereof.
And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-she-an and her towns, Te-anak and her
towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns, in these dwelt the children of Joseph
the son of Israel, Asher's descendants, the sons of Asher Im-nah and Issua, Issua and
Bariah, and Se-ra their sister, and the sons of Bariah Heber and Mal-kiel who is the father
of Ber-zavith, and Heber begat Japheth and Shomer and Hotham and Shua their sister, and
the sons of Japheth, Pasek and Bim-hau and Ash-vath, these are the children of Japheth,
and the sons of She-mer, Ahai and Ro-gah, Je-hahba and Ah-rem, and the sons of his brother
Hel-em, Zo-fa and Im-nah, and She-lesh and Ah-mal, the sons of Zo-fa, Su-ah and Harn-ah-fer
and Shoo-al, and Be-rai and Im-ra, Be-zer and Ha-d and Shama and Shul-sha, and Ith-ran and
Be-ra, and the sons of Je-ther, Jef-ani and Pispa and Ah-ra, and the sons of U-la, E-ra
and Hani-el and Re-ziah, all these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's
house, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes, and the number throughout
the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand
men.
Brother Bill, will you please pray for the service?
Amen, well it's good to be back in the pulpit, when you don't preach for four straight services
it's a, you know as a pastor it's like, oh man, like I was pretty sick though, so I appreciate
everybody that stepped up and I appreciate people being faithful to church, so, but yeah,
it's the pits being sick, especially in the summertime, not that it was actually summer
type weather, but you know, I saw a lot of people were saying, oh I love this weather
or whatever, but you know, I would love that too I guess if I lived in England or something,
but anyway, that's good weather for England, but no I'm just kidding, it's supposed to
be like really hot in England this week, so, anyhow, we're in First Chronicles 7 and I
am just, I was supposed to preach First Chronicles 7 on Thursday after I got back from Seattle
when I came down with the Wuhan, the Wuhan virus or whatever, so imagine getting that
in Seattle, I don't know how that happened, but anyway, I think I had it before I got
out there, I don't know where I got it from, it's probably one of your kids, no, joking
again.
Anyway, so, I'm preaching First Chronicles 7, it was my Bible study from Thursday night,
but so I'm just going to preach it before this evening's service, so try to get through
it as fast as I can here, there's a lot of ground to cover, so I'm going to be talking
about the tribes of, well if you've been following the Bible study, if you've been here on Thursday
nights, right now in First Chronicles, it's going through the genealogies, so from First
Chronicles 1 to First Chronicles 9, it's basically just giving genealogies and it gives a little
bit of commentary here and there, there's a lot of great nuggets of truth in the genealogies,
and you're like, well, the genealogies are boring, well I don't find them boring at all,
now of course when it's giving endless names, you're like, why does the Bible do that, well,
it connects dots in other places for you to understand, like, who is this guy, why
is this person important, or, you know, how, like, when we went through about, you know,
when we talk about Samuel, and how, why was Samuel able to be, you know, ministering unto
the Lord, how is this possible, and then you trace him back to Elkanah, his father, who
was a Levite, so, but you don't really get that unless you go to the Chronicles because
it doesn't really spell that out for you in the book of Samuel, so, First Samuel, so
there's a lot of great truths in, you can find from First Chronicles, and a lot of times
it's just giving you secondary people's genealogies and help, because there's a lot of famous
people in the Bible that do great things, but in the Chronicles, you're gonna find people
that maybe weren't so famous in the Bible, or you don't really know much about them,
but you can see some great truths about maybe the lesser known people in the Bible, but,
and you can find great nuggets of truth just from the Chronicles themselves, so, right
now we're in the part where it's going through the genealogy of the patriarchs, the sons
of Jacob, and we've gotten to the descendants of Issachar, so, of course, all the 12 tribes,
we don't, they're lost in the annals of time now because in 70 AD, they were smashed by
the Romans and dispersed into the world, and in the New Testament, the Bible says to avoid
genealogies, you're like, well, why are you reading them?
Well, because all scripture is inspired by God, and it's profitable to us for doctrine,
and so we can learn great doctrine from the word of God, and I'm not, when it's saying
avoid genealogies, it's talking about avoid them to say, like, I'm the actual messiah
where people will say, you know, there's people out there that will actually claim to be the
messiah, or there's people that will say, well, I'm part of this tribe, you know, like
the black Hebrew Israelites, those guys will say, well, we're actually the Israelites,
and then all white people are Edom, you know, we're the Edomites, we're the devils or whatever,
so there's a lot of weird things, and then of course the Jews will try to go back and
use the genealogies, but they don't know their own genealogies anymore.
They're lost, so the chronicles is where the genealogies end except for when it refers
to Jesus Christ in the New Testament, that fills some of the gaps, and then really what
matters in the genealogy is leading up to Christ.
When it goes through Judah to Christ, then that's where the genealogy stopped mattering
because the seed that was promised to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12, the seed is singular,
isn't it?
That seed is Christ.
So if we're in Christ, we are heirs through Abraham by faith.
That's what really matters.
That's the only genealogy that matters.
Are you in Christ?
So the sons of Issachar, verse number one, the Bible says, Now the sons of Issachar were
Tolah, Puah, and Jashub, and Shimrom, four.
The sons of Tolah, Uzi, nine millimeter, no, and Rephia, and Jeriel, and Jamai, and Jibsam,
if you're lacking baby names, again, you can go to here, and Shemuel, heads of their father's
houses to wit of Tolah, they were valiant men of might in their generations, whose number
was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
You'll also see this referred to like when did this genealogy get counted, these mighty
men that it's talking about.
Here it's specifically saying in the days of David.
So when David became king and Benjamin, Saul's son, stepped to the side and all people came
unto David, then their numbers of mighty men were counted, and this is what it's talking
about here.
So two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
But notice it's talking about of Tolah, Tolah of these were the valiant men of might.
And in this chapter you're gonna see that in each tribe pretty much you're gonna find
some mighty men of valor or valiant men of might, and it's kind of a theme throughout
this chapter if you'll pay attention.
And so the sons of Tolah are from the time of the judges.
At least the time of David were of Tolah from the...
So Tolah was a judge in Israel in the time of the judges.
But all those generations up to David, he had men that were after him that were mighty
men or valiant men of might.
So like the Rechabites, remember we covered, I preached a sermon where I was talking about
the Rechabites, how they followed their father's wishes and said, we're not gonna drink wine,
we're gonna live in tents, we're gonna have great zeal for God.
And when...
Good night, I can't remember his name.
Jehu.
When Jehu said, get into my chariot and I'll come up and I'll show you my zeal for the
Lord, and then they smashed all the idols and destroyed all the Baal worshipers, Jehonadab,
then he was kind of like their leader.
But he wasn't a child of Israel, he wasn't one of the sons of Israel, so the Rechabites
weren't of the sons of Israel, but they were closely tied to them.
And he was known, and Jeremiah went to him and tried to get him to drink wine, and God
was just kind of proving a point that these guys aren't even Israelites, and they've kept
the charge of their father to not drink wine.
But Tolah's sons were valiant men of might, and they followed him as being valiant men
of might.
So this is what they were known for as being great soldiers, these sons of Issachar, especially
through the line of Tolah.
Now look at Numbers chapter 26 verse 23, just keep your finger here because we're gonna
come back.
Numbers chapter 26 verse 23, the Bible says, of the sons of Issachar, after their families,
Tolah, the family of the Tolites, of Puah, the family of the Punites.
So he was the chief captain in the book of Numbers in the time of Moses.
He was the main guy, and he led the...
Because God, he had captains over all the tribes of Israel during that time when Moses
was leading the children of Israel, and Tolah was the chief captain of their armies.
So remember they all had to be in certain positions of...
In all their tribes would be in certain positions, the men of war, and he was the head of that
family.
So now Judges chapter 10, look at verse number one, look at verse number one, Judges 10 verse
number one.
So I'm just trying to highlight some of the men that were of these tribes.
There's not really a whole lot to dig through on some of these guys, on some of these tribes,
but of course I'm probably just skipping over people.
There's so much that you could say, but I'm just trying to, like I said, highlight some
of these great guys.
And Tolah was a great guy of the tribe of Issachar.
So it says in Judges 10, it says, and after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel, Tolah
the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar.
And he dwelt in Shemir in Mount Ephraim.
And so you might notice if you've read the book of Judges that a lot of them would rule
for Mount Ephraim.
Now I was kind of thinking like, why do they rule for Mount Ephraim?
He's of Issachar, Mount Ephraim, Issachar is not there.
That's not where they inherited from.
But when they would judge, they would judge from that mountain for a reason.
Now Joshua, when he took the land, what did he inherit?
He inherited with the Ephraimites because he was from Ephraim.
And he ruled from that area because he was the judge of Israel after he took over from
Moses.
So that was like a centralized location in the Promised Land.
And so it's probably easier to judge and rule from a higher place, a high mountain, a high
place, and to be able to disperse his judgment equally to all the areas.
So he was in a centralized location.
And that's how a lot of places, most cities, their downtown area is in a centralized location
so they can kind of equally rule from those areas.
So he was a man of Issachar, though, and he judged in Mount Ephraim.
So he ruled as that judge in Ephraim.
Anyway, so it says, and he judged Israel 20 and 3 years and died and was buried in Shemir.
So we have this man, Tolah, and it's the same man that it's talking about in Judges because
he's of Puah, the family of the Punites.
So let's go back to our text in 1 Chronicles 7, verse 3.
It says, and the sons of Uzi, Israel, and the sons of Israel, Hayah, Michael, and Obadiah,
and Joel, Isschiah 5, all of them chief men.
So now it's just kind of naming like the main sections of this family here of Issachar.
And it says, and with them, by their generations after the house of their fathers, were bands
of soldiers for war, six and 30,000 men, for they had many wives and sons.
So now you have these chief men, and what do we know about them?
Well, they have these bands of soldiers for war, six and 30,000 men, for they had many
wives and sons.
Now, when it says many wives and sons, I kind of take that to mean maybe they had multiplicity
of wives.
I think that could be one interpretation of this end of this verse here, but it also could
be that they just, most of them were married, there wasn't a lot of single guys in that
group of people.
It could be both, I don't know.
But it does say they had many wives and sons.
So usually when you'll see guys that have multiplicity of wives, like Jerubel had 70
sons or whatever, but he also had multiplicity of wives.
And then all those sons got killed except for one.
But when you see it says they had many wives and sons, and it says their brethren among
all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might.
So you see how it keeps saying these themes about these guys are valiant men of might,
reckoned in all their genealogies, four score and 7,000.
So that's 87,000 guys that are just men of might, valiant men of might, soldiers for
war.
So what do we know about them?
Well, they were fruitful.
They had big families.
And because they had big families, they were able to have war.
Now, obviously, in the New Testament, we don't have, we're not training soldiers for an army
to go out and fight against other nations and against governments and all these things.
But the spiritual application for us is that we are soldiers also.
We have been chosen by Jesus Christ to be soldiers for the war, man, woman, and child.
We actually have ladies that are also soldiers for the war.
It's not just the men.
Back then, the men just fought, but our battle is a spiritual battle.
And so women also partake in spiritual warfare.
Now, a lot of the preaching from the pulpit and all that stuff, that's to be done by the
men.
And the leadership roles in the home and things like that are to be done by the men.
And sons grow up, and they're supposed to be trained to lead their homes also.
But ladies also partake in the battles.
And you'll see in the Bible that there were women that, like Deborah, she partook in the
battles, and if she wouldn't have gone, Barak would not have gone either.
He said, unless you come with me, I'm not going to fight, which was kind of wimpy of
him, right?
I mean, but we live in a time where we have a lot of wimpy guys now, too.
But every generation, there's a battle.
And what's the battle of our generation?
Well, the queering away of this country.
That's the big battle that we're in, and we get a lot of resistance about it because we're
– we seem to be one of the only types of churches that resist these things.
And we have to fight this battle, and as much as it sucks to have to do and have to talk
about it, it just sucks.
You know?
It's not a fun one to talk about.
It's not a fun one to have to fight.
It'd be nice to be back in the time of the 50s where they were still in the closet, and
if you were found out to be one, you were tar and feathered and kicked out of the city
or whatever, or whatever they did to them back then, or maybe even in a better time
in this country, like the time of George Washington where they did worse, you know?
I mean, there was a time when it was the death penalty, you know, in most places.
But people say, well, that never really happened.
Well, you don't know what happened.
Do you think it's always written in the history books, everything that was done, in every
little hamlet, in every little small town?
Probably not.
So to apply these things in our minds today is we have to have valiant men of might in
our generations also, but not just men, women.
We all have to do those slogans that are like from wars of time past.
We all have to do our part, and it has the women with their muscles, Rosie the Riveter
and all this stuff.
Well, we're not asking you to be masculine, all right?
We're asking you to just do your part for the war.
You know, it's like the women were making the bullets or working in the factories and
stuff and then they made them put on pants and all this other stuff.
We're not asking you to do that.
We're just asking you to do your God-given role, and that's your part in the war.
And preaching the gospel.
Raising godly children.
But men, we've got to raise godly young men.
We've got to train men for the battle.
Not to be long-haired and getting tattoos and living like the world and being ungodly.
We need to train our men to be the next generation to fight the next battle.
Because you know what?
Every generation has a battle, and we don't know what the next battle's going to be.
You think, can it get worse?
Yeah, it can get a lot worse.
You think it's that bad right now?
It's not as bad as it can be.
And I'm getting ahead of myself, so I'll finish talking about that later, but look at Genesis
chapter 1.
Actually, I'm just going to read it for you.
Turn to Malachi chapter 2.
And so what does God want from us?
Well, does he want us to be fruitful and multiply?
Yes.
We're not.
This country is not producing enough children to repopulate and replenish this nation.
There's a million children being killed in the womb every single year.
Every single year.
3,000 children a day, average, right?
What did God say in the first chapter of his book?
The Bible.
He said in Genesis 1, 28, and God blessed them and said unto them, be fruitful and multiply.
Why did he say that?
Because having children and being fruitful is a blessing.
He said God blessed them and said unto them, be fruitful and multiply.
Replenish the earth.
And people say that's because the whole earth was destroyed in the pre-Adamite.
That's not what it's talking about.
Replenish can mean to fill again, but it also means to fill.
Fill the earth.
And it also does mean to replenish.
What we think of as replenish all the time means, yeah, hey, let's put back what we took.
When you stock shelves at a grocery store, if you've ever done that before, you need
to replenish what was taken off the shelf.
So we have to replenish, we have to have enough children to replenish the earth so the earth
doesn't die out, right?
But what's the agenda today?
Don't have children.
Only have one child.
We got the crazy cat ladies that they're just lonely crazy cat ladies living by themselves
with their toxoplastic gondi or whatever.
The cat's controlling them or whatever.
Vote for Harris, vote for Biden.
But God said we're supposed to subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Not let the cats control you, you control the cats, okay?
That's how it's supposed to work.
But dads, the greatest thing you can do is lead your families in the ways of the Lord.
Like if you're single, just be a good influence on the other young men that are in the church
or the other young lads that are in the church.
If you're married, be a good husband.
Be a good and present father.
Produce manly, godly sons and if God blesses you with them.
If God blesses you with children, do what's right by them.
Do what's right for them.
Don't be selfish because you can't just only think about yourself.
You have other people to think about.
Once you have children, as a dad, when Remy was born, my first born son, everything changed
for me that day.
You know, and I wasn't saved when he was born, but everything changed for me that day, though.
When I first looked into his face, when I first saw him, I knew that he was born.
So when your children are born, just as it should change you, you have a responsibility
to care for that child for the rest of your life.
I don't understand how people can just abandon their children.
I just don't understand it.
But in Malachi chapter 2, look at verse 11, the Bible says, Judah hath dealt treacherously
and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah hath profaned
the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange
God.
This is talking about spiritual adultery here.
You've, you know, talking about Judah just betraying the God of their fathers and betraying,
you know, marrying the daughter of a strange God.
This is the Lord will cut off the man that doeth this thing.
The master and the scholar out of the tabernacles of Jacob, that offereth an offering unto the
Lord of hosts.
It's weird that people would say that they believe in God.
Pretend to follow him.
Just have you done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears and weeping and with
crying out in so much that he regardeth not the offering anymore, or receiveth it with
good at your hand.
Yet you say, wherefore, or for what reason?
Because the Lord hath been witnessed between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom
thou hast dealt treacherously.
You betrayed her, is what he's saying.
There's something wrong?
I'll do it.
It says, so it says, you've, because the Lord had been witnessed between thee and the wife
of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, yet is she thy companion, and
the wife of thy covenant.
You know, when you marry someone, you're entering into a covenant, and you know, what does that
covenant say?
Tell death do us part.
That's what it says.
So every time you throw the divorce word at your spouse, you're wrong.
Don't threaten your spouse with that.
Don't threaten your spouse with, oh, I'm going to divorce you.
That's wicked.
That's the wife of your covenant.
That's the wife of your youth.
That's the husband that you said I do.
You don't do that.
Don't ever say that word.
Don't say the D word in your marriage.
I don't care how mad you get.
Just don't do it.
Don't say you're going to divorce your wife.
Don't say you're going to divorce your husband.
They're your companion.
That's your role dog.
That's the one that, you know, you've been with.
That's the one you said you wanted to marry.
Well, they've changed.
Well, maybe you have too.
Marriage doesn't work.
Marriage is hard.
Marriage isn't always easy.
You go through hard times.
You go through good times.
You go through bad times.
But you know what, for better or for worse, isn't that one of the, oh, for better or for
worse, in sickness and in health, right?
In sickness and in health, in poverty or in riches, you know, whatever's happening, whatever
season of life you're in, you stick together.
You leave mother and father and quit telling them all your problems and quit, you know,
letting them enter into your marriage.
That's so weird.
Just stay out of your children's marriage.
Let them work their stuff out, you know, because, look, parents can't help but take the side
of their sweet little baby.
They're not going to judge righteously.
In most cases, you know, like, oh, yeah, he don't deserve you.
Why are you doing that?
Do you want them to get a divorce?
It's just weird.
It says, and did not he make one?
Yeah, not 13 for the guys that want to say, oh, yeah, God wants you to have like multiple
wives.
It's okay.
No, idiot.
It says, and did not he make one?
It doesn't say, and did not he make 13?
Did not he make seven wives?
No, it says, did he not make one?
Yet had he the residue of the Spirit, and wherefore one, one that he might seek a godly
seed.
What does God want out of your marriage?
Well, one of the things he wants is for you to bring forth more fruit.
What's your responsibility for two saved people to bring forth children and for that child
to get saved someday?
And you know what?
If you go off of whoring after some strange god, then you know what?
The chances of your child getting saved are dropping down every time.
And if you have multiple children that aren't saved and your marriage falls apart, it's
your fault your children aren't getting saved, because they're going to look at that
and they're going to go, oh, mom and dad claimed they were saved, but then they got
divorced.
What are you doing?
It's ridiculous.
That he might seek a godly seed.
Who's seeking it?
God's seeking it.
Therefore take heed to your spirit and let none deal treacherously against the wife of
his youth.
What does take heed mean?
Well, it means to pay attention to what you're doing.
Think about what you're actually doing.
You think that it's going to be better with somebody else.
Well, once they realize your problems, then it's going to be the same thing over again.
Once you realize their problems, it's going to be the same thing.
So you're just being selfish if you just think that you're going to run off of some other
person, the newer model, you think you're going to just trade your wife in for the newer
model or whatever, and if it's an unbeliever, that's even worse.
That is kind of committing spiritual boredom, isn't it?
Why did God flood the whole world?
Because the son's God, went to the daughters of men, and soon there's only evil continually
in the earth because of it.
Men want to trade in for a newer model.
They find some unbeliever, some woman that just doesn't care, doesn't have the standards
you have.
How's that going to work out?
It's going to work out the same way.
You don't think that God's going to have a recompense over that?
You think God's just going to let you live your happily ever after?
You're saved.
He's not going to just let you get away with that.
You're out of your stinking mind.
You're fooling yourself.
I will cut them off to do with these things, the Bible says.
You know, if you're going to commit spiritual boredom and then God's like, you know, and
then they're like, where for?
He's like, I've seen what you've done with the wife of your youth.
I've watched you treacherously betray her.
You think I'm just going to let you get away with that?
Uh-uh.
Ladies, are you sick of your husband bossing you around, having all these kids, cooking
for him, all this other stuff?
I just want to go out and have a career like all the other women do.
Oh, so you can call some other man your boss so you can do what some other man tells you
to do.
I mean, your family, your husband that you made a covenant with.
Now you want to go to some other man that you don't even know.
Oh, yes, boss.
I'll do whatever you want, boss.
Oh, yeah, I'll put on pants, boss.
Yeah.
For money?
For clout?
For other men to be pleased by your work while you waitress for them and serve them in whatever
capacity that you're going to do?
You want to cook for somebody else's kids?
You want to serve somebody else's table?
I mean, that's just like, take heed to these things.
Like, what are you thinking about?
That's what you really want?
You want to go and be a nurse, a nurse practitioner?
Y'all want to go work in the hospital?
What, you want to go home, go to some place and take care of somebody else's kids?
You want to go bring up somebody else's health when your own family's health is failing?
Why don't you go before it's nightingale to your own family first?
And you're going to be asked to give them injections that you know are not right to
give to people?
Give them advice that goes against your conscience?
I don't understand that.
You just can't wait to get back into the sisterhood of the traveling pants?
You got your pants still up in some lock and key chest in your, every once in a while you
unlock it when your husband's not home, you look and touch the little rhinestones on whatever,
the bedazzled jeans you still have somewhere?
Anyway, I'm just joking.
But I mean, think about it though, like people just, they lose their mind wanting something
that it's not theirs and it really boils down to covetousness.
Look down at verse 16, it says, for the Lord, the God of Israel saith that he hateth the
putting away.
Don't you tell me that God is for your divorce?
He's not for your divorce.
What does it say?
He hateth the putting away.
Don't tell me, oh yeah, he loves my divorce.
No, he doesn't.
He hates it.
So what do I think?
I think that people should try their best to reconcile their marriage no matter what.
But if they go off and if they divorce you and marry somebody else, then you can't go
back to them.
That's when it ends.
You know, I'm sure that there's some really horrific things that you should separate over
for sure and not just remain unmarried or whatever, but you know, God does not want
you to get divorced.
So lose that fascination in your mind.
Look at Genesis 35, Genesis 35.
What made Izzikar's family so great in this little portion of 1 Chronicles?
They were fruitful.
That's what made Tolo's family great is that that's the one great thing you can really
take away from this is that he judged, you know, Tolo judged Israel and that his chief
sons, they had many wives and sons and they populated and they trained their sons to be
men of war.
And so when we apply that to our spiritual life, hey, we should be fruitful and multiply
too.
God's already blessed us.
He's already said that from – you think that he just like, no, I don't want to bless
you.
No, he still does.
If you just want to live by faith and just say, hey, God's – well, we can't afford
to have another kid.
Says who?
What – is your God – is his arm waxed short or something?
Have you ever heard that term in the Bible?
Is God's arm waxed short?
Does it just like become a withered arm?
He only can't help you anymore.
No, God is the most powerful being in the whole world, in the whole universe.
There's nothing greater than him.
He owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
He has all – everything really belongs to him.
He made it all.
What, do you think he couldn't just deplete all the banks at one point?
He just said, it's all mine.
You know, I mean, it is all his.
He's just letting people borrow his money.
Those aren't your shekels.
They're God's shekels.
Anyway, it says, Genesis 35 verse 10, and God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob, and
thy name shall not be called anymore Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name.
And he shall – and he called his name Israel.
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty, be fruitful and multiply.
A nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after
thee will I give the land.
And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him, and Jacob set a pillar
in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone.
And he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon, and Jacob called the
name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.
So we have Jacob here being blessed by God.
God appears to him, and he tells him to be fruitful and multiply and gives him some instruction.
But we're not just to multiply physically, but multiply spiritually.
So God is already seeking after a godly seed.
He said to Abraham, I know that you'll command your sons after – we know that he's going
to command his sons after him.
We know that he's going to be faithful in his house, and he was.
That's why he picked him.
That's why he picked Isaac.
That's why he picked Jacob.
And so on and so forth.
That's why he picked David.
So look at Psalm, chapter 127, verse 3, Psalm 127, verse 3.
I'm not doing very well today.
I'm getting through one guy here.
But I mean, this is a pretty important topic, actually.
Psalm 127, verse 3, you know, obviously physically we need to reproduce or, you know, we're not
going to be able to catch up.
Who's going to pay our Social Security?
I mean, that's the system we have in place.
If there's nobody to pay taxes to put the money back into the Social Security, how are
you going to retire?
I mean, and then with the government, with their little grubby hands getting into it
all the time, tapping into your Social Security that you pay that's supposed to be guaranteed
to you, you know, obviously I don't like the system.
You know that they were only supposed to tax 2 percent?
That was the highest it was ever supposed to go for Social Security?
Now what's it at, like 12 percent or something?
Anyway, Psalm, chapter 127, verse 3, lo, children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit
of the womb is his reward.
So when we have children, don't think of them as just your children.
Well, that's my kid.
I can do whatever I want with my kid.
If you're saved, you can't look at it that way, because the children are the heritage
of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
He wants you to raise him for his glory, and he wants you to raise them so they can get
saved, because they're not going to be his reward if you let him go off and go to hell.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.
They shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
So happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.
You know, you're happy if you have a lot of children, the Bible says, and so it's nothing
to be ashamed of.
You know, when people stop our big family, you know, I'm sure if you have a big family,
they're like, are all those kids yours?
Yeah.
You know, proudly proclaim it.
Like, what's wrong with that?
All those dogs yours?
I mean, who's seen people that are just driving around and, you know, they got like all their
windows like rolled down to here and all these dogs are like, you know, like walking around
with six dogs on leashes, you know, dragging them down the street.
They can't even control them.
But our spiritual picture from Issachar is that we are called to be soldiers of Christ
and we need to be ready for the battle.
And you know, Issachar had many wives and sons and we also should be fruitful, multiply
and bring forth godly home and heritage and seed of the Lord.
But also, you know, we bring forth many sons and daughters to the Lord.
This is the main battle.
This is the battle that has to be fought in every generation.
We can't just lay down and let this world destroy our heritage.
If we do this, we don't have to pick fights.
The fights are going to come to us.
You know, Satan doesn't want churches like this church to, you know, preach the things
that we preach and to believe the things that we believe.
You know, Satan wants this church extinguished and churches like this church.
But notice also that Christ will build his church and the gates of hell will not prevail
against it.
So this indicates that when we soldier up, we are attacking the very gates of hell because
it says that the gates of hell will not prevail against us.
You know, if you're, you know, gates don't attack you, you attack gates.
So like if you have a fortress, you know, people attack fortresses and those fortresses
have gates that have big wooden doors or big doors that people would attack.
So how do you attack gates?
Well, with a battering ram.
You know, you got people and they're all shielded, they have this big ram and they're just like
ram the door in, you know, arrows are coming down on them, they're pouring tar and, you
know, throwing rocks on them, trying to stop them from battering down the gates, right?
But it says the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
I will build my church.
And so every time a great church rises up and does what the Bible says and proclaims
the truth and is going out trying to get people saved and, you know, is doing great
works for God, it's like a battering ram against the gates of hell.
And the devil is just like, we've got to stop this battering ram from hitting us.
And, you know, so when we're using God's word, you know, we're just battering the gates of
hell or we're preaching God's word, it's like a battering ram just ramming into this gate.
And when we're preaching the gospel, we're just like ramming into this gate of hell,
just continuously slamming into it and he hates that.
And that's why he's shooting his darts.
He's shooting his arrows at us.
He's not shooting his arrows and darts at the ones that have the rainbow flags hanging
off the sides of their church.
Why would he bother with them?
They're not doing anything that God wants them to do.
He comes after churches like this because, you know, we're ramming his gates.
He doesn't like it.
And so when, you know, we're just getting people saved, it's just every time we get
someone saved, it's like, and we're just like, you know, they're afraid.
He doesn't like that.
He's not afraid of us personally.
He just doesn't want his kingdom being messed with.
And so every person that gets saved in Vancouver or any place that we planted a church, anytime
we start a new church, I mean, there's always drama and people are like, I just get so sick
of the drama.
Well, the reason why there's drama is because great things are happening.
That's why.
So don't get sick of it.
Just know why it's happening.
And you know, when we're discipling people, we're replicating, you know, it's not just
about bringing forth physical children.
It's not just about bringing forth spiritual children in our families, but it's also about
replicating what this is here all over the world.
That's what we need to be doing.
And it's a long, hard battle.
It's a generational battle.
Every generation needs to fight the battle.
J. Frank Norris fought it.
You know, when he left the Southern Baptist Convention and built the greatest Baptist
church of its time, he ran two of the greatest, biggest Baptist churches in, two of the biggest
churches in the world at the time.
And he wasn't a sissy.
I mean, you know, a drunk driver was killed in Texas and he went to the scene and scooped
the brains up and preached a sermon with a bottle of booze and that guy's brains in his
hand in a bottle.
Preached a whole sermon like that.
When he's preaching against evolution, he goes to the zoo and gets all the apes and
dresses them in clothes and puts them behind him.
He preaches sermons against all the banksters.
I mean, his house was burnt down.
His churches were burnt down.
Huh?
Yeah, he completely destroyed the gambling industry in Texas.
He was hated.
But yet he had the biggest churches in the world at that time.
I mean, Brother Jack Hyles, Pastor Jack Hyles was the biggest fundamentalist in the whole
world.
I mean, people were emulating his standard, I mean, he was a special man for his time.
But all I'm just saying is that someone has to pick up the torch.
You know, I believe Pastor Anderson, Pastor him as they pick that torch up and someone
else is going to have to pick up the torch.
I love seeing young, new fundamentalists come into the movement, you know, guys like those
guys from Chicago.
You know, it's a breath of fresh air.
I mean, are they are they overzealous a little bit sometimes on some of the things that they
do?
Yeah.
But you know what?
I'm I'm losing.
I'm not losing my zeal.
I mean, I can still shut down their podcast like that.
You know, but, you know, the thing is, is that I if we're not getting new zeal, we're
not getting new people that we're failing.
That's what the old IFB does.
That's like when you go and preach in their churches, there's like everybody's gray headed.
There's no more.
We're just like, we just don't know what we did.
Like, we want to get new children in here.
We want to get new families in here.
Well, stop sending them off to Bible college.
You know, stop putting them in, you know, rock and roll church until the sixth grade
and then bringing them up to the adult church where they're bored.
Stop it.
Just put it, do family integrated services.
Quit letting people get molested in your church and covering it up.
Quit letting pedophiles in your church that you know are pedophiles and hiding it from
people.
Oh, they just can't go downstairs with the junior church.
Just keep them out.
Don't let them in.
Don't let a tranny walk into your church and just let them sit there in your congregation.
We literally, in this town, the pastor of the church let a transvestite walk in and
then he's roaming around.
They can't find him anywhere.
He goes down to the children's church.
He's roaming around.
Nobody can find him.
We're having a potluck after the service.
The pastor finds him completely nude in the baptistry.
Then he kicked him out.
But the moment he walked in with a dress on, he just said, get out of here, you freak.
What are you doing?
Anyway, that's the other battery ram.
Don't mess with that agenda.
And then what?
The freaks attack.
I mean, this is what we deal with as, you know, this is our battle for the generation.
You know, sometimes you've got to be the last man standing.
And that's the way it is.
And then the other spiritual picture is, you know, as it's reckoned in the days of David,
when you see that said here, it's like David pictures Christ.
So we are also reckoned in the genealogy because we're spiritually the seed of Christ.
When Christ shed his blood, you know, it's kind of a weird way to look at it.
But the moment we believe in Christ, his blood is applied to us.
And it covers all of our sins, past, present and future.
And so like, we become blood brothers, basically, at that point, you know, have you ever like
as a kid, guys, most I don't think women do this, but guys, I know that, you know, you'd
be like, let's be blood brothers and you'd like, cut your finger or whatever.
Yeah, we touch blood, which is really weird.
But that's just guys, okay.
But who's ever done that before?
Don't be embarrassed.
A couple people.
Like, ah, no.
But we do, we become blood brothers, because doesn't the Bible say that Jesus Christ is
not ashamed to call us brethren?
Yeah.
So, and then do we, is the blood of Christ applied to us?
Yes.
And so we're adopted into the family of God.
We're sons by adoption, daughters by adoption.
And so we are reckoned also in the genealogy of Christ, because of that.
So that's all I really have time for, actually.
I'm not going to go further than this, because I just, the next point is just a big, huge
point.
Actually, you know what, I'll just, I'll skip to another point that's really short.
And then we'll end here.
So let's go to verse, I'm going to, I'm just going to go to Manasseh, not Manasseh, I'm
going to go to, ah, Naphtali, look at verse 13.
This is really interesting.
But the sons of Naphtali, verse number 13, the Bible says, the sons of Naphtali, Jaziel
and Guni and Jezer and Shalom, the sons of Bilhah.
The end.
I mean, it's like, not much is written about him, huh?
I mean, apparently he didn't do very many things, did he?
I mean, it doesn't even like go through some big long list of anything, does it?
Isn't that weird?
Just like, well, he's a nothing burger.
I mean, there are a few things about him.
Let's just go to a couple of verses here, and then we'll wrap it up, let's see, like,
three or four verses here.
Let's look at Judges chapter 4, Judges chapter 4, verse number 6.
Bible says, and she, let's talk about Deborah, she sent and called Barak, the son of Abinuam,
out of Kadesh Naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded,
saying, Go and draw toward Mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children
of Naphtali, of the children of Zebulun?
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon, Sisera, and the captain of Jabin's army, with
his chariots and his multitude, and I will deliver him into thine hand.
And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go, but if thou wilt not go
with me, then I will not go.
So I mean, Barak is from the tribe of Naphtali, so he does do, you know, he does do stuff
for the Lord, but like, he's kind of not very bold, he's not very manly, I mean, if he won't
go unless a woman goes with him, I mean, maybe that's why there's only one sentence
in 1 Chronicles chapter 7 about him, I don't know.
I mean, maybe he's, I'm sure he's a great guy, I'm sure he's in heaven, you know, I
don't want to be too mean or whatever, but like, we don't want to be spiritual Baraks,
right?
So, and then let's look at 1 Chronicles chapter 12 verse 34.
I was just trying to dig some, anything I could about Naphtali out of here.
So he's also reckoned of men that joined David from his tribe.
Let's see, 1 Chronicles chapter 12 verse 34, and of Naphtali, a thousand captains and with
them the shield and spear, thirty and seven thousand.
So he did bring, their tribe did bring thirty-seven thousand people unto David.
First Kings chapter 4 verse 7, First Kings chapter 4 verse 7, First Kings 4 verse 7.
This is kind of the last claim to fame that he has here, and it's really not that interesting,
but First Kings 4 verse 7, it says, And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which
provided victuals for the king and his household, each man his month a year made provision.
So basically in charge of the snacks and the food.
So he was the cafeteria guy or whatever, but look at verse 15 and same chapter there, it
says Ahimaz was in Naphtali.
He also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wife.
So a man of Naphtali married the king's daughter.
So there's where the ending of Naphtali's great greatness came to pass there.
So he married the king's daughter, and that's pretty much it besides, you know, the ones
that count, you know, were counted by Moses, of course, and that left Egypt.
I mean really God brought them out of Egypt, didn't he?
And Moses was a great leader that helped bring them out of Egypt.
They inherited up near Galilee on the right side of Jordan there, or the left side of
Jordan if you're looking at it on a map.
So I only got to cover two of the tribes, but I really did want to kind of make that
point this morning about being fruitful and multiplying, and it's just so important that
we keep our marriages strong, our children raised in the ways of the Lord, and that we
just, you know, there's a battle going on, and sometimes, you know, we get to live in
our lives and, you know, we're on the daily grind and, you know, we're out of church for
a few days and, you know, we get muddied up a little bit by the world and, you know, there's
all these politics.
There's so much stuff that wants to grab our attention away from what's really mattering,
and what really matters is the battle that we have to fight in this world against the
devil and against his minions and against, you know, us in worldliness.
You know, the ultimate takeaway from this chapter is that there's many generations of
the past.
I mean, there's just all these generations, but really what gets covered, just a few minute
details.
I mean, there's so many things that have happened from Genesis chapter 1 to now, and we're just,
all we're getting is just some little tidbits of these tribes.
I mean, think about how many things happened just in your life up to this point, and they're
just like taking, you know, the author is just taking out just little tiny things from
one person, you know, not even just a microcosm of what happens here, and just little tiny
memorable things.
And the battle that we go through in every generation, you know, the people need to rise
up for themselves and not allow themselves to be completely corrupted by the things of
this world, because there's so many things that bombard us all the time.
Social media, television, the radio, just there's like this big giant, I always use
this analogy, but there's this big giant satanic net that just has its, you know, it's
drawing everything into it, and like we kind of can get drawn into it too.
And it's in every system, it's in every, you know, even just like, you know, the internet,
just everything, hospital systems, police systems, military systems, just everything.
And at some point, all those systems are going to be controlled by one entity, and
that entity is Satan himself.
And all of its, you know, people make technology and you think, well, that's a cool innovation,
but what is that cool innovation going to be used for later on?
It might seem benign, it might seem great, it might seem to help us, you know, Google
Maps is great, it's way better than Apple Maps.
Apple Maps is just bad, just like Apple phones.
But I'm not going to get into that right now, I already did, and I will continue to later.
But no, it's great, but you know what, most people couldn't find their way to a location
unless they had that.
Most people couldn't read a roadmap if they tried.
So what's going to happen when all the internet goes out and you don't know how to get someplace?
You're going to have to learn to read roadmaps again, aren't you?
You're going to have to learn to make, out of a piece of paper, you're going to have
to, I mean, have you ever had to do this?
Let me ask you this, have you ever had to do this?
Get directions on the phone from someone while you're drawing, you know, while you're drawing
a map?
Have you ever had to draw a map for somebody and then, you know, your map gets all small
at the end because you're like making these big, you're like, no?
Some of us old geezers in here, yeah.
That's how we used to do it, you know.
There's a big tree, and you'll see like a road on the side, and we'll put a paper plate
there.
There will be like a notch cut out of the paper plate, just turn there.
And then, before cell phones were like a big thing, like you couldn't just call somebody
at the campsite, they just had to find you somehow.
And even now, like if you try to find somebody on a campsite, you're not, you might not get
reception unless you have some like global phone or something.
I'm just saying that there's a lot of systems out there, like think about Amber Alert, now
there's Silver Alert, and like there's, you know, you don't want to convolute it so much,
and those things are great, but usually they're, you know, if somebody gets taken in Montana
or something, like you're not going to see their car in Vancouver, Washington like an
hour later, unless they're going really fast.
But they are helpful, and people do get found that way, but wait until it's Christian Alert.
We, you know, this person was last seen, and they're like hunting us with that alert system,
you know.
I mean, they're already calling us domestic terrorists.
They're already seeing things that are just not true about Christians right now.
Imagine when those laws come into place, and then they actually can hunt us.
I mean, you think things can't get worse than they are now?
They can get a lot worse.
I mean, have you read the book of Revelation lately?
Have you read Matthew chapter 24 lately?
They can get pretty bad.
So that's why we need to be ready.
We need to be trained up and not allow the world to completely corrupt us and get us
dropped out, because what ended up happening to these tribes?
They allowed themselves to get completely corrupted to where there was no remnant to
stand up, and if there was a remnant, they end up scooting it down to Judah, and then
when Judah got corrupted completely, then God wiped them like He wiped the plate, like,
when you do the dishes and you wipe that plate clean and put it away, that's what He did
to Judah.
That's what He did to Jerusalem more than once.
So we don't want that to happen to our church.
We don't want that to happen to the place we live.
And we got to be, you know, in this chapter it says things like valiant men of might,
able to the war, fit for war, bold, you know, fruitful, to provide soldiers, well trained,
able to the war.
All these terms are in this chapter, and, you know, we need to be well trained, able
to endure hardness and hard times, because hard times are coming.
I mean, the Republicans lie.
The Democrats lie worse, but when the media is on your side, I mean, the media is supposed
to be objective, but they're not.
They've clearly chosen a side, so, and there's only an alternative just so people can be
in their vacuum and echo chamber and like, these are the evil ones, hate, hate, hate.
Like they talk about hate so much, but they hate us.
That's okay because we're evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil, evil.
You know, we're Christians, we're Christian nationalists or whatever.
Hard times, you know what hard times are?
Hard times are hunger.
Hard times are disease.
Hard times are war.
We haven't seen those things.
We're pretty spoiled here, but we do need to be ready for those things, and, you know,
we need to be arrows in the quiver of the Father in heaven to meet the enemies at the
gate, right?
When it said in Psalm 127 that we're arrows in the quiver and we're, you know, arrows
in the, you know, when I've always read that I've always thought that it's talking about
like arrows in the hand of a mighty man to meet the enemies at the gate, talking about
the family, you know, fighting for their families, which it has that application, but who's our
Father?
You know, once we become children of God, once we become born again, then we have a
heavenly Father and we are arrows in the hand of Him, in His quiver, and He wants to
use us to attack the gate, so we can't get out of this fight, you know, and He needs
all hands on deck, expert in war, able to hit with the right hand or the left at a hair
breath, so, and if we're caught up into all this other junk, I'm not saying don't have
fun, don't get me wrong, I like to have fun too, but we do still need to keep our mind
on the mission.
Soldiers get leave, right?
But then soldiers know when it's time to kick in, get in the foxhole and we fight together
and we win the battle.
If we lose the battle, we still know who wins the war, right?
Amen.
Let's pray.
Lord, we thank you so much for this great church, Lord, and I pray that you'd help all
those that are sick in our church to recover quickly, all those that are traveling, that
you would give them grace and travel our mercies back home, pray that you would just bless
our day out sowing, pray that you would, Lord, that you'd help us to think on these things
about being expert men and women of war, you'd use us in a mighty way, Lord, you'd bless
all the churches that are like-minded, Lord, and pastors and their families, and Lord,
and the people that go to the churches, Lord, that the pastors would keep those people in
their hearts and pray for them, and Lord, I pray for this church and for our spiritual
welfare, and Lord, that you would just keep us in the battle, Lord, help us not to keep
our mind on the things of this world, but to think on the things of the kingdom of heaven,
and Lord, that we would remember that we do have a battle before us, and Lord, that
we can't just give up and lay our arms down, that we have to pass it on to the next generation.
I pray that you'd just bless the rest of our day, Lord, in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Three, nine, four on the first.
Toiling on, toiling on, toiling on,
let us hope, let us march, and labor till the Master comes.
To the work, to the work, let the hungry be fed,
to the fountain of life, let the weary be led,
in the cross and its banner our glory shall be,
while we herald the timing, salvation is free.
Toiling on, toiling on,
toiling on, toiling on,
let us hope, let us march,
and labor till the Master comes.
To the work, to the work, there is labor for all,
for the kingdom of darkness and error shall fall,
and the name of Jehovah exalted shall be,
in the loud swelling chorus salvation is free.
Toiling on, toiling on,
toiling on, toiling on,
let us hope, let us march,
and labor till the Master comes.
To the work, to the work, in the strength of the Lord,
and our robe and our crown shall our labor reward,
when the home of the faithful our dwelling shall be,
and we shout with the ransom, salvation is free.
Toiling on, toiling on,
toiling on, toiling on,
let us hope, let us march,
and labor till the Master comes.
Brother Mikey can you close us with a word of prayer?