page 142 on the first I've a message from the Lord hallelujah the message
unto you I'll give test recorded in his word hallelujah it is only that you look
and live look and live my brother live look to Jesus now and live is recorded
in his word hallelujah it is only that you look and live I'm a message full of
love hallelujah a message all my friend for you tis a message from above
hallelujah Jesus added and I know tis true look and live my brother live look
to Jesus now is recorded in his word hallelujah it is only that you look and
live life is offered unto you hallelujah eternal life thy soul shall have if
you'll only look to him hallelujah look to Jesus who alone can save look and
live my brother live look to Jesus now and live tis recorded in his word
hallelujah it is only that you look and live on the last I will tell you how to
I came hallelujah to Jesus when he made me whole twas believing on his name
hallelujah I trusted and he saved my soul look and live my brother live look
to Jesus now and live tis recorded in his word hallelujah it is only that you
look and live racing at this time I'll have our announcements all right good
evening everybody welcome to sure Foundation Baptist Church let's take our
bulletin to go through some announcements real quick here if you
need a bulletin just slip up your hand one of the ushers will get you a
bulletin of course all the kids are faithful to raise their hands quickly
but you're never gonna get one unless you steal it from your parents all right
on our front cover we have our verse of the week it says the wise in heart shall
be called prudent and the sweetness of the lips increases learning in Proverbs
chapter 16 verse 21 on our inside there we have our service times our Sunday
morning service is 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening service 3 30 p.m. Thursday Bible
study 6 30 p.m. tonight we're on first Chronicles chapter 9 Sunday morning I
started a new series and it's a new believer series and I start off with
assurance of salvation I'll be preaching about baptism this coming Sunday and of
course Sunday night we're gonna have a men's preaching night and so we won't be
in Joshua chapter 2 on Sunday evening but we'll continue that on the weekend
after this and then we have our we have our so many times listed there below we
had so many today we had none saved but we still had some faithful people go out
so praise God for that and our stats you can see below the praise reports and
we've had a lot of baptisms lately I came back from England baptized Joe and
then I had three baptisms in Spokane came back baptized another one last
Sunday and then last night I baptized in Yakima so so a lot of baptisms lately so
that's pretty cool right right before I baptized or have
a sermon about baptism so I thought that's interesting but cool so let's see
the upcoming events this Sunday I'm gonna be preaching up and spoke or I mean
not Spokane I can't even keep it straight anymore it's gonna be in
Seattle on Sunday for the p.m. service and let's see September 28th this is
this Saturday we're having a Sony marathon it's gonna be in st. John's in
the Portland I think we're we're trying to narrow down we had a place picked out
for the for the doughnuts and coffee I think we're trying to fixate on a
specific spot I don't want to say it publicly because you know these clowns
try to call these places and tell us to not tell them not let us we can't go to
this movie theater anymore because you know they called and whatever so we'll
just put in the whatsapp group so we have it narrowed down to a spot and it's
gonna be in the st. John's area okay we'll just tell you that so and then
we'll have lunch provided that'll also be in a place in the st. John's area but
it'll all be in the whatsapp group so I just want to get a show of hands of
who's planning on going one seven eight thirteen okay so is that so I saw Jack
raise his hand but does that mean Sean you're sending him okay so is it your
family's going okay so I kind of got that as around 20 people so far so that
sounds good 21 can I get 22 22 23 okay so that sounds like a good crowd there
I'm sure we might get some other stragglers to come along but yeah we're
gonna meet for coffee and doughnuts someplace in Portland but and then we're
gonna have lunch it'll be provided both things coffee doughnuts whatever that'll
all be provided we're gonna have a couple two-hour sessions brother Roberts
got some maps of places we've never knocked before and that area of course
you know it is Portland so you might get the random weirdo door or whatever but
you know this will also have the ghetto fabulous doors that we knock on to so
you know I'm sure it'll be a pretty fruitful area I'm hoping so anyway just
pray for that and then let's see the 29th again men's preaching night for the
p.m. service I'll be preaching Sunday morning and then October 5th and 6th is
the family friends weekend there is gonna be a change to that weekend though
unfortunately pastor Jimenez is not gonna be able to come for that Sunday he
is just not gonna be able to make it so there is a change in that schedule so we
are gonna still have a guest preacher on Sunday night but it's gonna be Daniel
Koots are our evangelists from Spokane is gonna fill in so I appreciate him
coming down so if you're Russian or you know whatever get all your Russian
friends to come and so and if you just want to support a good man who's been
faithful then still come so anyway he'll be preaching the evening service
for us that night on you know I'm no it's disappointing I wanted him to come
to but he just isn't able to make it he said he'll make it up to us so but we're
still planning on doing the pumpkin patch thing and then to make it up to
you on the I think it's the 12th whatever the Sunday is that that weekend
of the 12th dr. Phil stringer had a cancellation in his schedule and he is
going to be preaching for us that Sunday whatever Sunday that is so he's
gonna come preach for us and so I just figured that might be help help make up
for pastor Amanda's not being here so but yeah he's gonna be preaching for us
and he had a cancellation so I'm excited about that so if there's anything that
you would like him to preach about I haven't really talked with him about
that yet but he's already bought the tickets he's already coming in it's
happening so if there's some King James something that you just there's
something that you just want to know more about this guy knows a lot and he's
very smart he's done a lot of studying and so if whatever subject just maybe
talk to me after the service and and maybe I can put a bug in his ear to to
do it he doesn't he's not used to being around our crowd a lot so he doesn't
realize that we record all the sermons and we watch the sermons from other
churches like ours and so like he does have a lot of sermons that he preaches
maybe the same sermon and so if he knows we've heard that sermon before he'll
still change to another one so that's what happened in Indianapolis so anyway
if you're have some kind of sermon you want to hear him preach let me know and
then all the other stuff is kind of out in the distance but we'll get to those
as time draws on all the other stuff we all know and miss Alejandra tomorrow's
her birthday that right we get to sing happy birthday miss Alejandra she's here
she was trying to hide last time but anyway let's sing happy birthday miss
Alej all right
happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday God bless you happy birthday to you
21 okay yeah all right I'll go with that all right that's all I have for
announcements go ahead and take another song we'll receive the offering
and third song this evening page 323 be thou my vision page 323 be thou my
vision
on the first be thou my vision Oh Lord of my heart not be all else to me say
that thou are thou my best thought by day or by night waking or sleeping thy
presence my lie be thou my wisdom and thou my true word I ever with thee and
thou with me Lord thou my great father I true son thou in me dwelling and I with
me one riches I heed not Norman's empty praise thou mine inheritance now and always thou with
thou only first in my heart I King of heaven my treasure thou art I King of heaven my victory
won may I reach heaven's joys Oh bride have son heart of my own heart whatever befall still be my
vision Oh ruler great singing this evening and at this time we'll receive our offering
and brother Alex can you please bless the offering for us
then we can further your kingdom
you
good evening it's good to see you all this evening would you please turn with
me to the book of first chronicles chapter 9 first chronicles chapter 9 as is our custom
will read the entire chapter beginning in verse 1 please follow along silently with
me first chronicles chapter 9 in first chronicles chapter 9 the bible reads so all israel were
reckoned by genealogies and behold they were written in the books of the kings of israel
and judah who were carried away to babylon for their transgression now the first inhabitants
that dwelt in their possessions in the cities were the israelites the priests levites and
the nethanims and in jerusalem dwelt of the children of judah and of the children of benjamin
and of the children of ephraim and manasseh uthi the son of ami hud the son of omri the
son of imri the son of bani of the children of farez the son of judah and of the shilanites
asaya the firstborn and his sons and of the sons of zera juel and their brethren 690 and
of the sons of benjamin salu the son of meshulam the son of hodavia the son of hasanuah and
ibnea the son of jerohem and elah the son of uzi the son of mikri and mashulam the son
of shephathiah the son of rayuel the son of ibneja and their brethren according to their
generations 950 and six all these men were chief of the fathers in the house of their
fathers and of the priests jadiah and jehoyarib and jachin and azariah the son of hilkiah
the son of meshulam the son of zadok the son of meraoth the son of ahitub the ruler of
the house of god and adaiah the son of jerohem the son of pashur the son of malkiya and maasaya
the son of adiel the son of jazara the son of meshulam the son of meshilismith the son of immer
and their brethren heads of the house of their fathers a thousand and seven hundred and three
score very able men for the work of the service of the house of god and of the levites shamaya
the son of hashu the son of azrikam the son of ashabiah and of the sons of mirari and bak bakar
heresh and galal and matania the son of mika the son of zikri the son of asaph and obadiah the son
of shamaya the son of galal the son of jeduthun and berakiah the son of asa the son of elkanah
that dwelt in the villages of the netofa the netophytes and the porters were shalom and akub
and talmon and ahiman and their brethren shalom was the chief who hitherto waited in the king's
gate eastward they were porters in the companies of the children of levi and shalom the son of kore
the son of ebaias the son of korah and his brethren of the house of his father the korah
heights were over the work of the service keepers of the gates of the tabernacle and their fathers
being over the host of the lord were keepers of the entry and phineas the son of eliezar was the
ruler over them in time past and the lord was with him and zechariah the son of meshelemiah was
porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation all these which were chosen to
be porters in the gates were 212 these were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages
whom david and samuel the seer did ordain in their set office so they and their children had the
oversight of the gates of the house of the lord namely the house of the tabernacle by wards in
four quarters were the porters toward the east west north and south and their brethren which
were in their villages were to come after seven days from time to time with them for these levites
the four chief porters were in their set office and were over the chambers and treasuries of the
house of god and they lodged round about the house of god because the charge was upon them
and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them and certain of them had the charge of
the ministering vessels that they should bring them in and out by tail some of them also were
appointed to oversee the vessels and all the instruments of the sanctuary and the fine flour
and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices and some of the sons of the priests
made the ointment of the spices and matathiah one of the levites who was the firstborn of shalom the
korahite had the set office over the things that were made in the pans and other of their brethren
of the sons of the kothites were over the showbread to prepare it every sabbath and these are the
chief of the fathers of the levites who remaining in the chambers were free for they were employed
in that work day and night these chief fathers of the levites were chief throughout their
generations these dwelt at jerusalem and in gibeon dwelt the father of gibeon jael whose
wife's name was maakah and his firstborn son abdon then zur and kish and baal and nare and nadab
and gehor excuse me gador and ahio and zechariah and mikloth and mikloth begot shimayim and they
also dwelt with their brethren at jerusalem over against their brethren and nare begat kish and kish
begot saul and saul begot jonathan and malkishua and binnadab and espeel and the son of jonathan
was mary baal and mary baal begot mika and the sons of mika were pithon and melech and tahrir
and ahas and ahas begot jara and jara begot alometh and azmaveth and zimri and zimri begot moza
and moza begot binea and rafiah his son elaisa his son azel his son and azel had six sons whose
names are these azirikam boquero and ishmael and sharia sharia and obadiah and hanan these
were the sons of azel brother cg would you pray for us
amen well as brother eli was reading all those i was looking at cg and i was
know that he was kind of thinking thank god for brother eli and i was thinking the same
thing thank god for brother eli having to pronounce all those names and now we're finally
through the name chapters we're going to finish and we're going to move on to more of the story
parts of course it is the chronicles of the kings and so there's still more a list that we'll go
through as we go through the series here it's not as much story as like you would find in the book
of the kings but as first and second kings but of course it is more of a focus on the kings of
judah the southern tribe of judah so but last week i said that i was going to kind of preach
because it retells the genealogy of saul again remember last week we kind of went through the
genealogy of saul i said i was going to preach a saul versus paul and kind of compare the two
but i decided not to go in that route i will preach that sermon at some point and i've been
wanting to do it for a while but i decided not to go that route this time because i kind of
was digging into some other stuff that i have never preached about before so i figured i would
do that instead but one day i'll go back to that i've already preached it before but i'll find some
add-ons and maybe repreach that again someday but i kind of want to preach out of this chapter about
second chances to come and and you'll see why i i named the sermon second chances to come as we
go through it here but uh look at verse number one where the bible says so all israel were reckoned
by genealogies and behold they were written in the book of the kings of israel of judah
and judah who were carried away to babylon for their transgressions so the reason why the
genealogies are ending here is because this is where the chron the chronology stops the
genealogies stop up to this point and and then of course it picks back up in esra where you know we
get the genealogies of the returned exiles and here it's just telling us up to the point of the
exile these are the genealogies up to that point basically and so these people are in their
stations and so he's naming off the people that are in jerusalem and the jobs that they held who
was the high priest um you know who were the people leading up to the point what were their
jobs and it's kind of showing the faithfulness and and uh showing us some of the names of the
people that were faithful who was in the land at the time when it was taken who lived in those
places at that time but these were the people that were in place at the time at that they were taken
to babylon it says now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possession the cities were
in the cities were the israelites the priests levites and the nethanim so now it's about to
explain who these people are so this is talking about the first inhabitants not the people that
came back to the land so the israelites the priests the levites and the nethanims who are
the nethanims again does anybody remember who the nethanims are the nethanims are like the gibeonites
and we're going to learn about them in the book of joshua they're the ones that pretended like
their clothes were all ragged but they're actually kainanites and they came and basically they made
them hewers of water i mean hewers of wood and drawers of water you know not hewers of water
that's kind of hard to do right so that's who the nethanims are so they were still after all this
time still doing their jobs right and it says and in jerusalem dwelt of the children of juda
and of the children of benjamin and of the children of ephraim and manasseh now remember
the 10 tribes have been taken away at this time so they're not going to give the genealogies of
those people that at this time because they're all gone they're all taken away they're all out
of the land and it's explained that to us in the genealogies already but those people are taken
out of the land and so they're mixed in and taken away a long time ago but some of the remnant of
ephraim and manasseh and benjamin are still there and then it says uthi the son of amahud and the
son of omri the son of emri and abanai of the children of pheras of the son of judah so you
have some of the line of of pheras who is in the line of christ that is still in in jerusalem there
and the shiloh knights isiah the firstborn and his sons and of the sons of zera so zera is the
twin brother of pheras remember the one that came out they tied the scarlet thread upon him
and then his arm came back in and then yeah so so remember he and he was kind of not chosen because
and you know when we fought later on his son is you know one of his relatives is the one that is
the troubler of israel so if the line would have went through zera then he would have been killed
as a result and so there's a reason why god chose pheras instead of zera if you remember that story
so it says in the shiloh knights isiah the firstborn his sons and the sons of zera geol
and their brethren 690 and the sons of benjamin salu and the son of meshalom and the son of
the son of hasanuah and ebniya the son of jerahom and ela the son of uzi and the son of mikrai and
michelon the son of shephathiah son of riel the son of ibnijab and their brethren according to
their generations 950 and 6 all these men were chief of their fathers in the house of their
fathers and of the priest jedahiah and jehorab and jacon and azariah the son of hilkiah the son of
michelim the son of zadok the son of mariah the son of ahiatib the ruler of the house of god
so remember that zadok is the head of the house of the lord he's the chief ruler of the house of god
because that line changed over do you remember why it changed over to zadok
and his children we'll turn over to first kings chapter two and we'll see why so god did replace
the line of who the high priests were going to be for a specific reason and we don't have time to
go into the whole story maybe someday we will when we go through the book of first samuel
and second samuel but we can kind of see right here um the the reason why
now abiathar was on david's side for a while and remember all of his family were the priests that
saul killed he killed saul had all the priests killed that helped david and gave him the sword
of goliath gave him the showbread to eat while he was on the run they didn't know that david
was running from saul saul calls them all and he says why did you help david and then he has doeg
the edamite kill all the priests of the lord and go to the city that they lived in and killed all
their wives all their relatives all their children all their sheep all their goats everything that
breathed and killed them all but why did that happen well part of that is fulfilling the
prophecy because eli it's not this eli but there's another eli god told samuel when he
called samuel to be the judge of israel that because of what eli allowed his sons to do
they were wicked before the lord and god wanted to kill them that he was going to take eli and
change you know change him out of being the line of the high priest so hopefully you probably
remember that story in the bible but here uh so david had so zadok and abiathar they're both
priests at the same time because abiathar is the only surviving one of that line and he has a son
named jonathan actually he's not the only surviving one but he has a son named jonathan and jonathan
and aheimaz both run from joab with the tidings remember that story so but anyway they're both
albeit they're all cool with david but then you know a high abi i think it's a hija tries to be
king after you know when david's dead and solomon is the king and they go on the wrong side so here's
what here's what happens because of that so first kings 2 26 it says and unto abiathar the priest
said the king get thee to anathoth unto the field of thine own fields for thou art worthy of death
but i will not at this time put thee to death because thou barest the arc of the lord before
of god before david my father and because thou has been afflicted in all wherein my father was
afflicted so solomon thrust out abiathar from being priest unto the lord that he might fulfill
the word of the lord which he spake concerning the house of eli in shiloh so this you know takes place
over you know many chapters in the bible where you can kind of see and and watch it happen but
look down at verse 35 it says and the king put ben and i have this the son of joi in his room
over the host and zadok the priest did the king put in the room of abiathar so abiathar is replaced
by zadok and zadok becomes the line of the priest so in first chronicles here that's why zadok is
now the you know he's the priest and and for some reason i'm thinking that zadok then at some point
the sadducees come from zadok am i right about that yeah so that's where the sadducees kind of
come from that line of zadok so anyway i'm not going to get into that we don't have time but
look back in first chronicles chapter 9 verse 12 uh let's see it says in adai the son of jiroham
the son of pashur the son of malkijah and messiah the son of adiel the son of jesira the son of
meshalom the son of mesh meshalomith the son of emmer and their brethren heads of the house of
their fathers a thousand and seven hundred and three score very able men for the work of the
service of the house of god and you know so god is is recording this this is put in scripture for a
reason look the first nine chapters in first chronicles are not here just for us to get bored
by reading genealogies and genealogy is very important we've already seen a lot of reasons
in the first nine chapters why genealogies are important we found out that you know about samuel
you wouldn't know that samuel's a levite unless you actually go to this book there's a lot of
cool things that we've found so far in this book but you know we see things little statements like
this where god now god's going to kind of go on and show us how important it is to have blue
collar workers for like almost the rest of this chapter he's going to be talking about porters
and it's like this is kind of like the porter chapter almost for the almost the rest of this
chapter god talks about the porters and their stations and where they're at and who's the head
and the chief of them and you're like well what are porters well we'll get to that here in just
a minute but you know he he also emphasizes the point that it says that these are very able men
for the work of the service of the house of god now where are we tonight we are in the house of
god now you're like well is this the only house of god no this is not the only house of god any place
where god's people you know where the spirit of god is and there's saved people and they're
meeting in the name of the lord jesus christ is the house of god when they're gathered together
the congregation of the lord is the house of god and you know what we need able men to do the work
here also and able women i'm not trying to exclude women but you know we need able-bodied people
and we need workers you know the the the rest of this chapter is going to show that hey they need
they need workers then and that carries on into the new testament also now everything might not
be just the same as it was in the old testament but there's a lot of positions that carry over
like porters are basically the same thing as ushers you know we we have people at the doors
they had people at the doors now they might have had 212 ushers at their doors but they
had a bigger building you know they had more people they had more things going on than we
than we did you know they had a lot of people coming in and out of those buildings and they
needed 212. i mean we went to first baptist church of hammond indiana their campus is humongous i
mean it's just huge they have one building that's just where the spanish congregation meets and then
one where the english-speaking congregation meets the the spanish congregation where that meets is
where jack hyles used to preach in that building and it's humongous but the place that they built
afterward is humongous too and they've got to have people manning all these different doors
that that to me is a logistical nightmare but their place is huge so they have to have
all these different people doing all these different things you know the bigger the building
the bigger the property the more people you need and it's very important to have able men
for the work of the service of the house of god and in in genesis chapter 47 and i won't have
you turn there but uh when joseph introduces jacob to pharaoh who jacob is a very hard worker
you know he's moving like stones by himself that took many people to move he's working night and
day he's losing sleep and you know he's very hard worker but when he meets pharaoh he's
pretty old at this point but it says and pharaoh spake unto joseph saying thy father and thy
brethren are come unto the unto thee and the land the land of egypt is before thee in the best of
the land make thy father and brethren to dwell and the land of goshen let them dwell and if thou
knowest any men of activity among them then make them rulers over my cattle so what so you know
pharaoh understood the value of hard workers he's like hey if you got some men that are hard workers
that are men of activity then make them rulers over my cattle and you know what god wants us as
christians to be hard workers he doesn't want us to be lazy he doesn't want us to not work with our
hands he wants us to be hard workers and in the in go ahead and turn to second thessalonians
chapter 3 i'm going to read in uh first thessalonians chapter 4 verse 11 turn to second
thessalonians 3 i'll read first thessalonians chapter 4 verse 11 the bible says and that you
study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your own hands as we commanded you
that you may walk honestly toward them that are without and that you may have lack of nothing so
you know the bible teaches all throughout the bible that we should you know be minding our own
business doing our own work eating our own bread you know and supporting our own families and men
are the ones that are supposed to go out and provide for their families and you know if you're
not providing for your own family you should be ashamed of yourself especially in this country
you know where there's multiple chances to work i know that there's a whole bunch of people
across the river that don't like to work and there's it seems like there's a lot of people
on this side of the of the of the river now that don't like to work and that you know city council
deems it necessary to you know call it a state of an emergency that we have all these homeless
people it's like vancouver was never like this this place used to be clean i mean i used to when i
lived in portland i used to come over and visit my wife here um before we were married i just i
just thought it was so cool how clean this town was like it was just super clean the freeways
were always clean and now you can't even drive down andreessen without this garbage flying all
over the place and you know people living on the trails and stuff that just stuff never existed
before these yahoos over here started just letting everything go but a lot of the problem is
that they're giving away things to people that refuse to labor with their hands and the same
type of people are too lazy to take the free stuff that they got when they're done with it
and actually put it next to the garbage you know into the garbage can that's probably right by them
or 10 feet from them or 20 feet from them you know they put all these receptacles out there
they give them porta potties what do they do with the porta potties they knock them over
in some demonic rage and then they just throw them over or whatever
it's just sick look at second thessalonians 3 6 it says now we command you brethren in the name
of our lord jesus christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh
disorderly you're like what does that mean well it's about to explain it to us and not after the
tradition which he received of us for yourselves know how you ought to follow us for we behave not
ourselves disorderly among you and you know people will think you think like disorderly conduct
where you're just like out of control or whatever but what are they talking about well again it's
going to explain it to us neither do we eat any man's bread for naught but rot with labor
and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you not because you have not
power but to make ourselves an ensemble unto you to follow us so they could have taken a paycheck
they could have taken money they could have you know earned money as full-time ministers but they
wanted to be an example of them to follow not because we don't have power but to make ourselves
an ensemble unto you to follow us for even when we were with you this we what's it say commanded
you not suggested we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat so but yet
every christian ministry that's out there if we don't like if i tell people we don't have a
homeless ministry or we don't just have a soup kitchen we're immediately looked down upon
but what do people do out there the exact opposite of what this verse says
right and that's why you know there's a bunch of lazy derelicts out there begging for money on the
side of the road begging for you know going to churches from church to church asking people for
money asking people for hotel rooms you know and they don't even go and attend the church at all
and and the people just give them the money the people just give them you know whatever they want
you know this there's a place in this complex here that gives free food and stuff out every
wednesday and you know where's all the garbage go in that grassy field back there
it you know underneath the cover in our on our church property i feel like just kind of packing
it all up and just leaving it right in their front doorstep that'd be nice that would that
be the christian thing to do i don't know because is it very christian of them to just give out a
bunch of free food to a bunch of homeless derelicts that refuse to labor and then let
them trash our church property all the time i don't think that's very christian of them
i don't see them coming up and cleaning up their mess because i didn't i didn't make that mess
but uh anyway it says verse 11 for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly
working not at all but our busy bodies because you know what if you're idle you're going to just
tend to get yourself into trouble and start you know getting yourself involved in situations that
are none of your business that's what a busy body is you're busy but you're not busy about things
you should be doing you're busy about other people's business that's what a busy body is
now them that are such we command and exhort by our lord jesus christ that with quietness
they work to shut your mouth quit worrying about other people's stuff and eat their own bread
but ye brethren be not weary in well-doing and if any man obey not our word by this epistle
note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed so what's it saying
have no company with him note that man what's it what's another word for note that man mark that
man so this is something that you would throw somebody out of church for if a person the man
refuses to labor and they're just some some derelict that refuses to work and they're just
in other people's business and not working at all the apostle says if they don't keep this
commandment then they're to be noted and keep no company with them but it says yet count him not
as an enemy but admonish him as a brother so it's not saying that they're a reprobate or you know
there's somebody that can never be forgiven hey if they get a job and get things right then they
could come back but if someone just moves here they're living in our parking lot you know first
of all our lease doesn't allow for that you know i know that there's other churches that have had
problems where people will move there and they're living in their van inside the parking lot or
something and you know our lease does not allow for that our lease doesn't allow for people to
just park their vehicles and work on them like this is some kind of mechanic shop or something
i understand if someone's vehicle breaks down but you know it's actually written in our lease
this is not you know because some people have just used it as like their own personal truck driving
you know parking lot or something that go to the church or something so it's clearly laid out in
the lease they just don't want people doing stuff like that but anyway brethren let's move on verse
14 back in our text it says so you know and here's the thing this what i'm saying to you is this
the bible clearly teaches that men should be hard workers but you know what women should be
hard workers too you know maybe you're not out bringing home the bacon outside of the outside
of the home but you should still be just working just as hard at home and you know what i know that
ladies do work hard at home and you should and guys you shouldn't downgrade them for that because
you're not the one you know most men are not the ones up at night with the babies when they're
crying when they're sick lacking of sleep they're the ones that are lacking sleep you know they're
probably letting you sleep through the night so you can get up and go to work but you know when
you come home and they're tired i mean they're doing a hard job that's not a job that i would
like to do i never had to do that you know my wife just let me sleep and she's the one that
tough it out you know maybe i'm a jerk i probably am but she just didn't make me do that because
she knew what she was supposed to do and i knew what i was supposed to do so i mean obviously i
went and took her to the hospital when the kids needed to go to the hospital and stuff like that
but you know and obviously i did that but as far as like staying up and nursing them to to better
and all that stuff that's just wasn't me you know not that i didn't care i was just like get away
from me kid i did actually do that get away from me you're gonna get me sick i can't afford to get
sick keep get these kids hints but it's not that i didn't love them i just didn't want i couldn't
get sick okay so i'm just saying you know we all are supposed to work hard not just the man not
just the wife but both work hard together and we should have a church that works hard also so you
know whatsoever thy hand find it to do do it with thy might the bible says so when we see something
at church it's not like oh that's the pastor's job oh that's so-and-so's job that's the usher's job
now you see something on the floor pick it up put it in the garbage you know i mean it doesn't
have to be one person's job everybody can pitch in right look at verse 14 and the levites shemaiah
the son of hasheb the son of asrikam son of hashabiah the sons of mirari so these are like
you know different levites so remember the priest had to be specifically the sons of zadok at this
point and then of course you had the different brothers you know the the the different sons
that would split up and had to do they had their specific jobs that they had to do so mirari is one
of those sons and then you have um let's see see the son of asaph asaph of course was i think in
charge of the singers obadiah the son of shamamiah the and and the son of galal
galal what did you say it was earlier was that the same name
oh okay anyway the son of jedithum and barakai the son of asa the son of elkanah remember there
was a bunch of elkanas in in that one chapter not sure which elkanah this one is but anyway
that dwelt in the villages of the naphothites okay so here's where we kind of get into the
porters all right verse 17 so uh and it says the porters were shalom and akab and talman and ahiman
and their brethren shalom was the chief so he's the chief of all the porters for the house of the
lord and so a porter is what it's a gatekeeper or doorkeeper but modern day it's like a baggage
handler you know a person at a hotel you know you think of the porter at a hotel or something
but also you know just like a laborer an attendant but in our case we call them ushers
but really it's just a doorkeeper you know there's nothing wrong with being a doorkeeper
well i was thinking that scripture i'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the lord than dwell in
the tents of wickedness right i don't know if i quoted that correctly but um you know i'd rather
be that an usher any day of the week than to dwell in the tents of wickedness so there's
nothing wrong with being an usher i mean it's a good job it's a good duty and apparently god
thinks so because he talks about him for several verses in a row after this so look at verse 18
it says who that who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward so shalom his main gate
was what which one the king's gate eastward they were porters in the company of the children of
levi so and if you like i'm not sure if you've heard like the legend of the gate that's closed
it's like the king's gate and the the messiah is supposed to when the messiah comes he's supposed
to walk through it that's what the jews believe or whatever but that gate's destroyed right now
just so you know there is no king's gate for them to walk through i think that they do they
i'm not sure if they think that it's still there or something but i don't it's not there the temple's
been destroyed jesus there wouldn't be a stone left upon another i believe him there isn't so
anyhow but the fact remains it's pretty cool that the king's gate is eastward because
you know when we think about you know the sun rises where in the east and sets of the west
the sun is a picture of the son of god i mean god made it to be something that we could that
we can picture you know when jesus rose from the dead you know he rose and you know what do we
celebrate every year easter yeah and it's not a pagan rabbit deity or whatever i preach a sermon
about it where austin is like the german word for it it's just you know yeah so anyway i don't have
time to get all into that but christ is kind of pictured in this eastern gate and it just so
happens that the bible actually talks about how when he comes back you know when he comes back
and he's you know his eyes are a flame of fire and he's coming back to slay the wicked
that he comes from a place called basra now basra is in edom so that would be east of jerusalem
right well let's look at the scriptures real quick let's look at isaiah chapter 63 i won't
go through all of them that i wrote in here because we don't have time but this one's pretty
interesting so and what what is jesus what color is jesus's outfit when he comes back does anybody
know it's red yes that's right so look at isaiah 63 verse 1 it says who is this that cometh from
edom with dyed garments from basra this that is glorious in his apparel traveling in the
greatness of his strength i that speak in righteousness mighty to save wherefore art thou
red in thine apparel or for what reason art thou red nine apparel and thy garments like him that
treadeth in the wine fat so when you tread grapes what color you know you're gonna get your your
clothes are gonna get red right i have trodden the winepress alone and of the people there was
none with me for i will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall
be sprinkled upon my garments and i will stain all my raiment that's kind of a gruesome thought
isn't it but this is what this is talking about jesus and where does it say he comes from who's
he that cometh from edom so that's the eat from the east side of of jerusalem right so anyway
just an interesting thought because when the jews think that the messiah is coming back you know
it's not going to be the actual messiah it's going to be the anti-christ but when the real
messiah comes back he's going to be very upset and he's going to be you know treading the wine
fat he's going to be treading and it's not going to be grapes he's squishing it's going to be people
right which is pretty gross right verse four for the day of vengeance is in mine heart and the year
of my redeemed has come and i looked up there was none to help and i wondered that there was
none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me and
i will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury and i will bring down
their strength to the earth so it's an interesting verse about jesus coming from the east coming from
eden and with garments that are you know it says dyed red but they're not dyed with the blood of
grapes that's just a picture of what they're actually dyed with they're dyed with blood
so it kind of explains that in verse three doesn't it and and it says he does it alone so which also
kind of matches up with revelation chapter 19 because when it comes when he comes back it says
that he's going to kill them with the sword of his mouth and we're just going to kind of watch
so we're not helping him we're not getting some we're not going to have ak-47s on top of our
you know horses or whatever he's doing it all alone and we just get to enjoy the victory so
let's see uh let's go to isaiah chapter 51 verse 4 i'm going to read isaiah 42 verse 4
i know this is kind of jumping out of the story here but i thought it was interesting i just
wanted to do this little tidbit real quick isaiah 42 verse 4 it says he should not fail nor be
discouraged till he have set judgment in the earth and the isle shall wait for his law you know when
jesus rose from the dead his truth went out from jerusalem and then moved all around the world and
you know went from the east to the west and so the whole world has heard the word of god
has heard the gospel and gone around the world multiple times but it says the isle shall wait
for his law you know islands isles isles can be coastlines or isles can be actual islands
but interesting verse there and it says in verse 4 where i had to turn harken unto me my people
and give ear unto me oh my nation for a law shall proceed from me and i will make my judgment
to the rest for a light of the people my righteousness is near my salvation has gone
forth and mine arm shall judge the people the isle shall wait upon me and on mine arm shall they
trust so before jesus comes back in the dyed garments where he's squishing people and all
that he's giving people grace giving people mercy when he rose from the dead and that light
of the gospel has shined forth on this world it's still shining forth on this world as well as it
can the gospel hasn't lost its power but the laborers are few so while we have a chance you
know this is what we should be doing is trying to get the gospel out as much as possible because you
know one day there's going to come a day when we all sit down with abraham and isaac from the east
and from the west you know where that light is shined forth after all this you know world
has passed by and we're going to sit down and get to hang out with them i think that's pretty cool
back to our chapter here in verse number 19 it says in shalom and shalom the son of kor
and the son of abyasef the son of korah so korah if you remember korah in the bible was a really bad
guy but his you know he had you know they wanted to they wanted the priesthood so they rose up
against moses korah dathan and abiram there were false prophets and they try to rise up and take
power and say all the people of the lord are holy and of course they are holy but their job you know
they wanted to take the job of the priesthood but their job was to be in the work of the service
right that's what it says and his brethren of the house of the of his father the korahites
were over the work of the service keepers of the gates of the tabernacle and their fathers
being over the host of the lord were keepers of the entry so all these years later there's still
korahites that are working and doing a faithful job at doing what they're actually supposed to do
so god didn't just completely destroy all of korah's children he saved some of them and
allowed them to still faithfully serve so at the time when babylon came and took all these people
away there were still people that were being faithful that were sons of korah and you know so
there are second chances that we're seeing in here you have children of benjamin still around
i mean look at how they betrayed the lord and you know let the let some sodomites almost destroy
their whole nation then king saul screwed it up for his line but yet he still gave him grace and
there's still children of benjamin at the time when the babylonians came and then uh you know
you still have the levites still in the house of the lord zadok is chosen oh you know he's he's
over the house and uh haitub is taken away but it's still the sons of aaron are still you know
faithfully serving the lord so god doesn't just completely remove them at this at this time he's
you know god's a god of second chances you know he he makes room for you know people could make
mistakes and he still gives grace to their to the people that are born after them you know just
because somebody screws up it doesn't mean it ruins it for the rest of their family and you
know god just he knows in his divine providence who's going to still continue to serve him so
at this point you still have people that are faithful that were sons of this false prophet
but yet they're still doing the work of the lord it says in finna the son of eliezer was the ruler
over them and the time passed and the lord was with him so was the lord still with these guys
yes that's what it says and zechariah the son of meshalama was the porter of the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation and all these which were chosen to be porters in the gates
were 212 these were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages whom david and samuel the seer
did ordain in their set office so these guys were picked by david and samuel this is many many years
later and they're still doing the job faithfully day in day out and you know again like we're
we're multiple multiple verses into this chapter and what are we still talking about we're still
talking about these porters 212 guys that are switching up they're they're still being faithful
and naming their names saying god's with them they're hard workers and god gave korah's children
a second chance and gave them grace to continue on in their work and it says so they that and their
children had the oversight of the gates of the house of the lord verse 23 namely the house of
the tabernacle by wards in four quarters were their porters toward the east west north and
south and their brethren which were in the villages were to come after seven days from
time to time with them for these levites the four chief porters so the four heads of all of them
were in their set office they're ordained you know not as in the as in like it's an office
like a king or whatever but they do have like uh they have a uh you know it's it's kind of like
being or you know they're they're ordained to that job and that's it's theirs to do it's kind
of like your boss is ordained over you as your ruler at work and you should respect that you
should respect your boss and obey him when he tells you to do something your husband wives
is your ordained leader in your home you should respect him you should obey him children your
parents are your ordained leaders in your home you should respect them you should obey them
god is our lord and savior and we should respect him we should obey him the pastor is the ruler
over the church you should respect him you should obey him in the things of the house of the lord
but i don't have any any any rule over your home the man of the house is the man of the house okay
so i know people call us cult leaders or call me a cult leader but i still haven't put speakers in
your houses yet where i say what are you doing i don't have cameras checking out what you guys
are doing that'd be weird right so anyway it says for these levites the four chief porters were in
the set office and they were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of god and they lodged
round about the house of god because the chart the charge was upon them and the opening thereof every
morning pertained to them so i mean it's like i said it's just still going on and on about these
guys it's a pretty important job sounds like right i mean how many chapters in the bible are
about specific jobs like this this is just kind of like a a person that stands at the door and
or an attendant to the people that are coming in but god is still going on about it because
it's an important job it's important to have somebody a smiling face and a handshake when
people come to visit our church when our church members come to visit our church and our ushers
are at the door hey it's an important thing to make sure that our church members feel welcome
and that our new our visitors feel welcome and that you know they that they know that faithfully
there's going to be a man standing at that door to greet them every single time it was important
then and you know what it's important now it's you know there's been there was a time when i
was like where's usher in the bible because i was an idiot because i was unlearned it was when i
first started going to church i was like where's that in the bible what a stupid thing for me to
say because i just didn't realize that doorkeeper is the same thing or porter is the same thing
but that's what idiots that don't know the bible say they ask stupid questions like that right
it says and certain of them had the charge of men of the ministering vessels that they should bring
them in and out by tail what does what does that mean well just not numerical reckoning okay not
everything is counted as the same way so they brought these things in and out by whatever kind
of numerical reckoning that they used verse 29 some of them also were appointed to oversee the
vessels and all the instruments of the sanctuary and the fine flour and the wine and oil and the
frankincense and spices so you know we have guys that you know take the bibles and organize them
and make gift bags and you know whatever else whatever needs to be done the these guys do the
porters the ushers whatever you want to call them the door keepers we have people that do
these things you know they might not have frankincense and oil but it's bibles and you
know whatever else needs to be done the coffee you know gets filled or whatever but it says and
some of the sons of the priests made the ointment of the spices and mathin uh madathiah one of the
levites who was the firstborn of shalom the chorus the chorathite had the set office over
the things that were made in the pans so there was this specific guy who had a set office over
things that were made in pans but this is probably a huge job you know if 212 guys it takes 212 guys
you know to just do the door keeping this guy is doing just things that are made in the pans
but it just says that he's the set office over the things it doesn't say that he's
the only one that makes things in the pans he's just the boss so this is a huge operation that
they're doing you're talking about millions of people at the time before they got taken over
and other of their brethren of the sons of the coethites were over the showbread to prepare it
every sabbath and these are the singers the chief of the fathers of the levites who remained in the
chamber were free for they were employed in that work day and night and what were they singers so
just like we have men that lead songs here and people that played musical instruments and piano
and all that they had people that that was their job day and night to work on uh singing and things
and instruments of course they played musical instruments too these chief fathers of the
levites were chief throughout their generations these dwelt at jerusalem so like almost this
whole chapter pretty much is talking about you know all this work that goes into the house of
the lord before the babylonians came and took it over you know why it's telling us all this though
first of all it's talking about how important it is to have people that are faithful in the house
of god because when they came back they they knew what their jobs were because they're reckoned by
genealogies and the ones that could not be reckoned by genealogy that were levites they
were cast out of the ministry they were not able to be levites anymore look that's a big deal
because their whole families lived off the tithes and offerings and they had a specific job that
they were supposed to do so if they totally screwed up when they went to babylon and married
all these you know people they weren't supposed to marry and they lost their genealogy then god
just probably didn't want to count them as faithful to be in that ministry anymore but the
people that were faithful were the people that he still wanted in there when they came back from
babylon 70 years later they were put right back into these positions to do these things when they
built back the house of lord but all these people weren't there the temple was smaller the amount of
people was smaller the scale was smaller but god still brought a remnant back and guess what they
did the same things that we're talking about here they still had these same jobs and it's very
important that when you're talking about the work of the house of the lord that you know it's done
by people that are faithful you can count on them to show up you know if there's someone not someone
there to open up the door then you know that's bad right so it's important to be faithful in
the things that you're supposed to be doing and it's important that you know that it's done right
okay you know if you forgot your keys you're there for you're there to open the door but you don't
have your key then that's not good you have to be responsible and you know it's important to
have everything done decently and in order first corinthians 14 40 let all things be done decently
in order these things still carry over into the new testament you know our church is not a free
for all church it never has been you know you're like well i don't think it's that organized well
maybe it's not as organized as you would have it if you were the pastor here i get that but you're
not the pastor here you know so it's going to be as organized as i organize it or i have people
that you know i'm over certain things and people do certain things and you know it is what it is
right but it is organized it's not like it's just like a hurricane katrina happens and there's
nobody to clean there's nobody to organize anything nothing ever gets done the money
doesn't get counted right you know there's things that are done in a certain way there's certain
people put into place and yeah do we have you know things that have that come up everybody
has things that come up and we just like clockwork we just put people into those positions but
sometimes you know you like this this sermon is about second chances well sometimes you have
these people that like you think well they don't deserve a second chance you'll see people in the
bible are like yeah i don't know like judas you know david prays that his whole you know in the
spirit of course that his family are vagabonds continually that his teeth are broken out you
know all these things is that his whole family is cursed his whole family line you're like man
that's pretty harsh like nobody gives his kids food and you know just all these different curses
that are placed upon judas's family and you see like ahab's kids completely cut off you know his
posterity cut off and and who who does the the killing jihu kills all of his kids kills everybody
that pertains unto ahab you know kills every then he kills the king of judah just because he's with
him you know and he's bad too but it's just like anybody that's has anything to do with wickedness
g who just gives them you know they're done right and you're like wow that seems pretty harsh
how come his kids don't get a second chance but then you see people like korra and you're like
why are his kids still doing well i don't know but what i do know is that some people that seem like
they deserve a second chance don't get a second chance and some people that seems like they get
they should get a second chance don't get one but i'm not god but you just see this kind of play out
in the bible multiple times and here we have just like multiple people in this chapter and you're
like well why is this person getting a second chance why are they being counted faithful
well maybe because god knew that their children would be faithful and god just doesn't give things
to people for no reason he just knows who's going to be faithful and who's not so maybe he just knew
that none of ahab's children were ever going to be faithful none of his children were ever going
to do the right thing they were never going to be good and so he just was like okay i'm ending that
line just going to get worse from here on out but i'm not god so i don't know why but i trust that
god makes the right decisions and i trust that sometimes you just the line gets extinguished
and that's just all there is to it but then you see like people like saul wouldn't you think that
saul deserves to have his light his his line extinguished king saul remember he's killed
the lord's priest he's hunting david everywhere and even when he says i'm going to stop hunting
you then he comes and hunts him again and again and again right he's throwing javelins at him
he's trying to kill his own son i mean saul goes from being this great guy to being this horrific
guy why does god give his his line a chance to continue to live well you know because god doesn't
hold the iniquity of a father against the son that's why that's a principle in the bible
and we don't have time to go there but uh it's in ezekiel 18 chapter 19 and 20 you know the person
that sins they're the one that deserves to die for that sin not the son not the father for what
the son does or not the son for what the father does but what is it it's grace that's why anybody
gets a second chance that's why anybody's line gets a chance because of grace because god's grace
because we get a choice to choose what whether we're going to serve god or not that's what it's
all about and really deserve has nothing to do with it when none of us deserves to go to heaven
none of us deserve a second chance really so that's kind of the point isn't it
and you know we just need to understand that god knows what he's doing and we don't have to
understand why he decides to cut a whole line of people off and why some wicked line of people
continues on and like cora and then you know they're doing great they're like the
the greatest porters of all time apparently you know so Saul's genealogy is repeated right
and and why is it repeated i just kind of think that it's repeated because it's it's again telling
us that Saul gets a second chance you know last week you know we went it's the same thing
but why does Saul get a second chance well i think Saul gets a second chance because
you know we know a remnant from Benjamin comes back but not all tribes do some of those 10
tribes they don't come back you hear like people that were tribes of Simeon and other tribes but
we know for a fact that Saul Paul is from what tribe he's from Benjamin isn't he so why does he
let Benjamin come back why does he let Saul come back well roman chapter 11 says i say then hath
god cast away his people god forbid for also for i also am an israelite of the seed of abraham
of the tribe of benjamin so paul the apostle says you know hey i'm i'm of the tribe of benjamin
why is Saul why does Saul get to be redeemed in the new testament because he does redeem the name
of Saul doesn't he do you think it's just a coincidence that his name is Saul i don't think
it is i really don't think it is i don't think it's a coincidence that he starts calling himself
Paul later on because he's actually a little guy but i don't think he just calls himself that
because he's a little guy i think he calls himself that because he's a little guy and thinks very
little of himself whereas Saul he thought little of himself at first and he was really big but then
later on thought too highly of himself but he was really actually pretty small in reality so
let's look at first samuel chapter 24 first samuel chapter 24 it's going to read philippians
chapter 3 5 paul says this about himself too he says circumcised the eighth day of the stock of
israel of the tribe of benjamin in hebrew of the hebrews as touching the law of pharisee so paul
the apostle you know mentions the fact that he's from the tribe of benjamin twice now we know in
this chapter that benjamin was abiding in jerusalem at the time when that when israel was taken when
jerusalem was taken and it's it finishes up that that genealogy so and we also know that benjamin
is known for producing great warriors left-handed men that wouldn't miss within a hairbreadth
of slinging stones and they're great you know but paul was a great spiritual warrior
he might not have been mighty in height he might not have been some great swordsman
that could kill all these people but you know what he conquered a lot of people
a lot of heathen for the lord when he went out and won a lot of souls
and he was a mighty man of valor he just was a mighty man of valor in a completely different way
he was also you know king saul was the first king of israel and and saul the apostle or paul
was the last apostle one born out of due time so and here's the thing king david swore an oath
to king saul that saul really didn't deserve to have sworn to him he didn't deserve it really
david could have killed saul multiple times had the chance to got so close to him that he cut part
of his clothing off and kind of showed it to him this is the story right here first email 24 8 says
david also arose afterward and went out of the cave and cried after saul saying my lord the king
and when saul looked behind him david stooped with his face to the earth and bowed himself
and david said to saul wherefore hearest thou men's words saying behold davis seeketh thy hurt behold
this day thine eye thine eyes have seen how the lord have delivered thee today into mine hand in
the cave and some bade me kill thee but mine eyes spared thee and i said i will not put forth my
hand against my lord for he is the lord's anointed moreover my father see yea see the skirt of thy
robe in mine hand my hand for in that i cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not
know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand and i have not sinned
against thee yet thou huntest my soul to take it the lord judge between me and thee and the lord
avenge me but mine hand shall not be upon thee so what is david saying i'm not going to touch the
lord's anointed he is the king of israel even though god has replaced him in you know he had
samuel already anoint david david is going to replace him but david's hand he he refuses to
replace him he refuses to denounce him he just cut off a piece of his clothing and it smote his heart
he's not going to do it and as it says as saith the proverb of the ancients
wickedness proceeded from the wicked but my hand shall not be upon me so he's just very adamant
it's not his job to overthrow saul it's just not after whom is the king of israel come out after
whom dost thou pursue after a dead dog after a flee the lord therefore be judge and judge between
me and thee and see and plead my cause and deliver me out of thine hand and it came to pass when
david had made an end of speaking these words unto saul and saul said is this my void my thy
voice my son david and saul lifted up his voice and wept and he said to david thou art more
righteous than i for thou has rewarded me good whereas i have rewarded the evil and thou has
showed this day how that thou hast dwelt well with me for as much as when the lord had delivered me
into thine hand thou killest me not for if a man find his enemy will he let him go well away
wherefore the lord rewarded thee good for the for that thou hast done unto me this day and and now
behold i know well that thou shalt surely be king and that the kingdom of israel shall be established
in thine hand swear now therefore unto me by the lord that thou will not cut off my seed after me
and that thou will not destroy my name out of my father's house so saul says this to david
and what's david say and david swear unto saul so when so when david does this it says and saul
went home but david and his men got them up into the hole so i mean saul comes after him again
after this but that doesn't take away what david swore unto saul what he say i will not he swore
that he would not cut off his name out of israel so his name moves on his name lives on and you
know what i believe i believe that god heard his his new anointed swear this unto saul and made
it come to pass that he did not cut his name off out of israel he did not cut his name off
out of being a people and you know david made this promise and god allowed him to keep it
deuteronomy 33 verse 12 says and of benjamin he said the beloved of the lord shall dwell in
safety by him and the lord shall cover him all the day long and he shall dwell between his
shoulders that's a big difference that moses says between benjamin is a ravening wolf you know when
jacob gives the prophecy so j so benjamin's a ravening wolf and what happens they help the
sodomites they almost get completely destroyed but then moses gives his prophecy that that
benjamin's the beloved of the lord what a strange difference and then saul becomes king he screws
it all up how's he the beloved of the lord how does he dwell in safety by him well i believe
that that carries over into the new testament i believe it's talking about saul that's what i
personally believe you can say i'm crazy or whatever but turn to second peter chapter 3
verse 15 i know we gotta hurry i gotta hurry up i'm almost almost done almost done take a sip of
water here second peter 315 so notice i just read you the verse though but it says in benjamin he
said the beloved of the lord shall dwell in safety by him second peter 315 says an account that the
long suffering of our lord is salvation even as our beloved brother paul this is the only time
you're going to see paul being called the beloved but what does he call everybody he called if you
just do a word search on beloved there's going to be lots of times in the bible where you see it god
calls people beloved but you see a lot of times paul calls people beloved but then you see the
other disciples copy what he says in epistles jude says it multiple times just in one chapter
but here's the only time where you'll see somebody else call paul the beloved brother you know at
first they didn't believe that paul was even one of them he's like they're like we don't trust this
dude and and rightly so because he didn't start out good he wasn't saved he was murdering christians
he was you know hailing them to be killed and holding the coats while they stoned stephen
but i just i mean you might think this is a stretch but i believe
that what most is prophesying here is prophesying about paul because how does he go from being a
ravening wolf to being the beloved of the lord that shall dwell in safety by him and then you
know then you got the apostle paul all the way in the in the new testament it's like why is benjamin
continued to carry on well i know that saul's name continued to carry on because david said it would
he swore that he would not remove him i don't know if that's exactly connected but what i do know is
connected is that benjamin lives on to the new testament by saul and saul is beloved of the lord
and one of the greatest christians in the new testament so paul of course is known for calling
people brethren so it makes sense that people would call him that makes sense that peter would
call him that in one of his epistles you know saying things that would be hard to be understood
in the next verse of course and you know you might think well paul got beat down a lot
and he got himself hurt a lot but god always rose him back up and and you know god did protect him
you know he comforted him last place i'll have you turn is act chapter 18 will be done
act chapter number 18 it says in verse 9
then spake the lord to paul in the night by a vision be not afraid but speak and hold
not thy peace so god's the lord jesus christ himself is comforting paul saying be not afraid
but speak and hold not thy peace for i am with thee so he says he'll dwell between the lord's
shoulders he will protect him he's gonna he's gonna help him right for i am with thee and no man
shall set on thee to hurt thee for i have much people in this city he's like don't be afraid
to speak paul but speak and hold not thy peace and so saw all saw or paul always knew that the
lord was going to protect him even when he's in that shipwreck he sent an angel of the lord to
tell him hey all these people are going to be saved alive don't worry about it you know have
a little meal make sure because you got a little swimming to do after this but he protected him
you know and so in romans 11 you know paul talks about there being a remnant by the election of
grace even so at this time also there's a remnant according to the election of grace
paul when paul's writing that he's that's what he's saying and if by grace then there's no more
works otherwise grace there's no more grace but if it be of works that is no more of grace otherwise
work there's no more work so paul you know he's one born out of due time he's just how how is he
picked well i'm sure god saw the kind of man that he was going to be he's like i want that guy right
there he's going to have to you know see what great things he must suffer for my namesake
but he's going to get the job done and so he picked paul they might have picked mathias by
some you know but you never hear mathias again after acts chapter number one but you do hear of
paul a lot after acts chapter number 10 right so benjamin you know he he's born on the side of the
road favored by his daddy the whole tribe's decimated because they love some fags and refuse
to turn them over then they have their first king he goes bad david swears not destroy his line god
honors that promise and not because he deserves it but because david his anointed swore it that's
what i i mean that's my personal belief it produced paul a man who started out bad and ended
up good who was short in stature but mighty and works and deeds who turned the world upside down
and outworked all the other apostles and we're saved today because the apostle paul so god knows
what he's doing that's really the point you know he gives second chances to people he gives second
chances to lines why because god knows what he's doing you know and who are we to cast judgment
over what he does so that's first chronicle chapter nine let's pray lord we thank you so much
for the bible every single chapter every single line and all the great things that it can teach
us to pray lord that you take us home safely and protect us pray that for the sony marathon this
weekend and for all the events that we have coming up pray just bless our people help us
to all those that are sick to come back healthy and pray that you just bless in jesus name we pray amen
and now let's sing our last song this evening page 337 in your blue hymn books page 337
god will take care of you page 337 god will take care
on the first be not dismayed whatever be time
god will take care of you beneath his wings of love abide god will take care of you
you god will take care of you through every day or all the way he will take care of you
you god will take care of you through days of toil when heart doth fail god will take care of you
you when danger spears your path the sin god will take care of you god will take care of you
through every day or all the way he will take care of you god will take care of you
you all you may need he will provide god will take care of you
nothing you ask will be denied god will take care of you
you god will take care of you through every day or all the way he will take care of you
you god will take care of you all the last no matter what may be the test god will take care
of you lean weary one upon his breast god will take care of you
god will take care of you through every day or all the way
he will take care of you god will take care of you
great singing this evening thank you for coming and we'd love to see you back here
on sunday brother eli you want to end us with the word prayer