Music
114
The Great Physician
page 114
On the first
The Great Physician
now is near
the sympathizing Jesus
He speaks the
drooping heart to cheer
Oh hear the voice
of Jesus
Sweetest note
in Sarah's song
Sweetest name
a mortal tongue
Sweetest carol
ever sung
Jesus blessed
Jesus
Brother Gary
92
How can I be lonely
page 92
How can I be lonely
Sing it out loud on the first
One is walking
with me over
life's uneven way
Constantly supporting
me each moment of
the day
How can I be lonely
when such fellowship is
mine with my
blessed Lord
Divine
How can I be
lonely when I'm
Jesus solely
to be my companion
and unfailing guide
Why should I be
weary or my
passing dreary
When he's walking
by my side
Brother Evan
24
And can it be
that I should gain page 24
And can it be that I should gain
on the first
And
can it be
that I should
gain
an
interest in
the
Savior's
blood
died he for
me
who caused his
pain
for me
through him
to death
pursued
Amazing
love
how can
it be
that thou
my God
should
die for me
Amazing
love
how can it
be
that thou
my God
should die
for me
Leilani
27
The Old Rugged Cross page
27
Sing out loud on the first
On a hill
far away
Stood an old
rugged cross
The emblem
of suffering and
shame
And I love
that old cross
Where the dearest
impasse
for a world
of lost sinners
was slain
So I'll
cherish the
old rugged
cross
Till my
trophies at last
I lay down
I
will cling
to the old rugged
cross
And exchange
it someday
for a
crown
For the CJ
404
When the battle's over page
404
When the battle's
over on the first
Am I a
soldier of
the cross
a forward of the
lamb
While I fear to
own his cause
or blush to speak
his name
And when the battle's
over we shall wear
a crown yes we shall
wear a crown yes we
shall wear a crown and
when the battle's over
we shall wear a crown
in the new Jerusalem
Wear a crown
Wear a bright and
shining crown
And when the battle's
over we shall
wear a crown in the new
Jerusalem
Eli
236
on the 4th
you got it
no not one
on the 4th
sing it out loud
Did ever
saint find this friend
forsake him
no not one
or sin or find
that he would not
take him no
not one
no not one
Jesus knows
all about our struggles
we will
die till the day is
done there's
not a friend like the
lowly Jesus
no not one
last one this
evening in the back
page 40
there's no
disappointment in heaven
page 40
on the 1st
there's no
disappointment in heaven
no weariness
sorrow or pain
no hearts that
are bleeding and broken
no song
with a minor refrain
the clouds
of our earthly horizon
will never
appear in the sky
for all
will be sunshine and
gladness will
never a sob nor a
sigh I'm
bound for that beautiful
city my
Lord has prepared for his
throne where all
the redeemed of all
ages sing glory
around the sweet throne
sometimes
I grow sick
in the glories
that there shall be hope
what a joy
that will be when my
Savior I see
in that beautiful
city of gold
good afternoon welcome to
Sherr Foundation Baptist Church
and we're going to take our bullets and go through some announcements
we do have one bulletin left
if anybody needs it
going once going twice
no sale
alright on our front cover we have our verse of the week
it says be kindly affection one toward
another or excuse me one to
another with brotherly love
in honor preferring one
another Romans chapter 12 verse 10
and our service time is our
Sunday morning at 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening
at 3 30 p.m. tonight we're going to be in
Genesis 49 again
and Thursday evening Bible study
is at 6 30 p.m.
and we will be at camp this week so
we have someone else preaching
on Thursday but so there is
still the service on Thursday but some
people will be here some people will be camping
and so still show up on
Thursday if you're not planning on going camping if you're going to
be in town here
or so many times are listed below we had
someone today at 1 p.m.
and I need to get a count on anybody
that had a salvation one there
one there and I thought there was three
so CJ you had one brother Alex
and Drew and then there was one other person
who was the other person no just two
okay so two salvations
praise God for that
and you can see
the salvations here today
all the information there we had two
baptisms on Friday
right after soul winning
and one at 10 o'clock at night
and our attendance
totals are there for last week
and let's see we got camps
coming up on Wednesday
so everybody can show up at Wednesday
at noon so if you leave
here at like 7 30 in the
morning you should get there right
at noon so
you don't have to get there at 12 o'clock
but you know you don't want your cabin
to be given away accidentally or anything like that
you better be there on time
I'm joking I won't give away your cabin
I'll have all the information for
the directions from south and north
to get to the location
anybody that
already has cabins
secured or whatever
you don't have to sleep in a cabin you can come down there
tent camp if you have a trailer
you can come down in the traveler trailer
there's hookups for tents and
for the travel trailers
or whatever you want to bring
RVs there's RV hookups
there but anyway
so it's not too late to say
that you want to come but
tomorrow or Tuesday we're going to do
the shopping so we kind of need
to make sure we have all that solidified
by Tuesday and then me and my wife
are going to go shopping if you want to
bring any kind of snacks that are
not part of the menu
then just bring the
snacks that you like and hide them from other
people so that they can't see them
especially if they're good snacks
if it's like granola or something
you can just leave that out in the open, nobody's going to touch that
but anyhow
so
things that you want to bring
I'm just going to fly off the top
of my head here
sleeping bags, pillows
shampoo, soap, toothbrush
am I getting too detailed?
towels
because there are showers there
praise the lord for that
there are community showers
so that doesn't mean
so there's a girls side
and a boys side basically
and then there's separate showers where you can take private
showers in those community showers
so I just don't want
anybody to be all freaked out that you
can't have any privacy or anything like that when you're taking a shower
you can have privacy
and we're not like the world
there's going to be ladies, there's a ladies side
and there's a men's side
whatever you were born as
you were going to go to
anyway
what else? we need some people to volunteer
for some kitchen time and cleaning time
if you want to do that there's a sign up inside
the whatsapp group
we'd appreciate that because nobody can do it all alone
so we definitely need help
there's going to be a s'more station at night
the fires are tentative based upon
what the
the fire, when you go out in the forest
it will have that little needle that says red
is the worst
I'm not sure how dry it is right there
right now but we can have controlled
fires if it's not too bad
and the camp host is the one that does that
so don't lighten your own fires
please don't be messing around with firearms inside the camp
we can't bring
we're not bringing dogs or
or pets or anything like that
you can't bring your parakeet
so it'll probably fly away
find a new home
anyway, so
that just kind of gets rid of a lot of complications
so, especially like
someone's like, my dog's never bit anybody before
you know, that kind of thing
he's always nice at home
and it's like
then you're dealing with a dog bite
so I don't want to deal with that
it's a no dog
adventure, so
anyhow, let's see
is there anything else that you can think of?
anybody want to add something I was forgetting?
yes
thank you brother Joe
he's on it
some mosquitoes, if you want to bring some
some mosquito repellent
it's got to have the deets if you want it to work though
just saying
yeah
flashlights
lanterns
um, yeah
those types, yes
they don't? yeah they do
they have like a couple plugins
oh yeah, bring like a tree outlet
yeah the captains have
a lot of power
it must have just been yours
we're like, give the Herringtons
a little with no power
no
I'm pretty sure they have like a couple plugins in there
cause I know that my wife
there has to be a place to plug the fan in
or it's just like
we can't stay there
so
I think there's power, but there's just not a lot
but yeah
that's another thing, like if you
are expecting sheets and
pillow top mattresses, I mean it is
camping, it is in a camp
ground, but it's cabins
and the mattresses
are not exactly
they're like prison style mattresses
so they're not super
comfortable, I mean there are some that are pretty thick
but just bring sheets and
stuff like that, so
yeah, I don't think there's anything else, but I just
wanted to let you know that I'm going to be posting all that stuff
in the What's That group on Tuesday so everybody knows
where to go and all that stuff and I'll put
the schedule in there, it's not going to be
so much of a hardcore
planned schedule as it normally is
we're kind of easing back into
it this year, it's been a couple years since
we've been up there, there'll probably be
a lot more free time
but there is going to be preaching every single night
and don't go up there and play and then
go and take a nap during the preaching
cause then the sermon will turn to why
Gary's not right
God in the light of the Bible
anyway, with that being said
I think if there's anything else I'll put the details
inside the What's That group
the 10th is
the conference in New Jersey
I mention that a lot, June 14th
is the homeschool field trip to Oaks Park, we sign up
with Rachel Woods and
June 18th is the men's shooting event in Stevenson, Washington
June 19th is Father's Day
there will be a gift for each dad in attendance
and the FWBC mega conference
the stop location for Vancouver
is June 23rd, Thursday night
and for Spokane
both services will be
on the 26th, on Sunday
Pastor Anderson is preaching both services
in Spokane
and then the 4th of July fellowship
is going to be at the Yankee residence
a lot more details about that soon
July 9th is Alana's baby shower
Alana Yankee
and that'll be here at the church building
don't have a time yet
July 14th through 17th
all the other stuff
y'all know
and then we sing happy birthday to everybody
this morning and then there's anniversaries
that I want to make sure get recorded
let's see Rylan forgot his own
he's probably dead right now
has anybody checked on him?
this afternoon?
and then let's see
his is the 11th and then whose was the 6th?
it was Robert, brother Robert
and Miss Crystal
the 6th, so we'll see them next week
anybody else have an anniversary that they
wanted to let me know about?
alright that's all I got for announcements
let's sing another song we'll receive the offering
let's open our hymn books to page 322
322 Living for Jesus
living for Jesus page 322
sing it out loud
Living for Jesus
a life that is true
striving to please him
in all that I do
He is my God
living for Jesus
building allegiance
flat hearted
and free
this is
the pathway
a blessing
for me
oh Jesus
Lord and Savior
I give
myself
to thee
for thou
in thy
atonement
didst give thyself
for me
I own no
other master
my heart
shall be thy throne
my life
I give
henceforth to live
oh
Christ for thee
alone
living
for Jesus
who died
in my place
bearing
on Calvary
my sin
and disgrace
such love
constrains me
to answer
his call
follow
his leading
and give
him my all
oh
Jesus Lord
and Savior
I give myself
to thee
for thou in
thy atonement
didst give
thyself for me
I
own no other
master
my heart
shall be thy throne
my life
I give henceforth
to live
oh Christ
for thee
alone
living
for Jesus
wherever
I am
doing
each duty
in his
holy name
willing
to suffer
affliction
and loss
deeming
each trial
a part of
my cross
oh Jesus
Lord and Savior
I give
myself to thee
for thou
in thy
atonement
didst give thyself
for me
I own no
other master
my heart
shall be thy throne
my life
I give henceforth
to live
oh
Christ for thee
alone
living
for Jesus
through
earth's little
while
my dearest
treasure
the light of
his smile
seeking
the lost
ones
he died to
redeem
bringing
the weary
to find
rest in him
oh Jesus
Lord and
Savior
I give myself
to thee
for thou in
thy atonement
didst give thyself
for me
I own
no other
master
my heart shall be
thy throne
my life I
give henceforth
to live
oh Christ
for thee alone
gracing this
evening at this time we're gonna take our
offering but Sean Harrington can bless you
offering for us
thank you so much for this day
thank you so much Lord
I pray that you would build Pastor Thompson
with your spirit Lord
and that you give us all
safe travels this week as we go
to the Baptist camp Lord
I pray that you would bless this offering Lord
we bless both the gift and the giver
in Jesus name Amen
Thank you
Alright
Open your Bibles to
Genesis chapter 49
Genesis
chapter number 49
if you know the Bible raise your hand
and one of the ushers will bring you one
Genesis 49
Genesis 49 the Bible reads
and Jacob called unto his sons and said
gather yourselves together that I
may tell you that which shall
befall you in the last days
gather yourselves together and hear you sons
of Jacob and hearken unto Israel
your father
Reuben thou art my first born
my might and the beginning of my strength
the excellency of dignity
and the excellency of power
unstable as water
thou shall not excel because thou
wentest up to thy father's bed
then defiledest thou it
he went up to my couch
Simeon and Levi
our brethren instruments of cruelty
are in their habitations
O my soul come not thou into
their secret unto their
assembly mine honor be not
thou united for in their anger
they slew a man and in their self
will they dig down a wall
cursed be their anger
for it was fierce and their wrath
for it was cruel I will
divide them in Jacob and scatter them
in Israel Judah
thou art he whom thy brethren shall
praise thy hand shall
be in the neck of thine enemies
thy father's children shall bow down
before thee Judah is a lion's
whelp from the prey my son
thou art gone up he stooped down
he couched as a lion and
as an old lion who shall
rouse him up the scepter
shall not depart from Judah
nor a lawgiver from between his feet
until Shiloh come
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be
binding his foal unto the vine
and his ass's colt
unto the choice's vine he washed
his garments in wine and his clothes
in the blood of grapes his eyes
shall be red with wine and his teeth
white with milk
Zebulun shall dwell at the haven
of the sea and he
shall be for a haven of ships
and his border shall be unto Zayden
Issachar is a strong ass
couching down between two burdens
and he saw that rest was good
and the land that it was pleasant
and bowed his shoulder to bear
and became a servant unto tribute
Dan shall judge his people
as one of the tribes of Israel
Dan shall be a serpent by the way
an adder in the path that biteth
the horse's heels so that
his rider shall fall backward
I have waited for thy salvation O Lord
Gad a troop
shall overcome him but he shall
overcome at the last
out of Asher his bread shall be fat
and he shall yield royal dainties
Naphtali
is a hind let loose
he giveth goodly words
Joseph is a fruitful bough
even a fruitful bough by a well
whose branches run over the wall
the archers have sorely grieved him
and shot at him and hated him
but his bow abode
in strength and the arms of his hands
were made strong by the hands of the mighty
God of Jacob
this is the shepherd the stone of Israel
even by the God of thy father
who shall help thee
and by the Almighty who shall bless thee
with blessings of heaven above
blessings of the deep that lieth under
blessings of the breast and of the womb
the blessings of thy father
have prevailed above the blessings
of my progenitors
unto the utmost bound
of the everlasting hills
they shall be on the head of Joseph
and on the crown of the head of him
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf
in the morning he shall devour the prey
and at night he shall divide the spoil
all these are the twelve tribes of Israel
and this is it
that their father spake unto them
and blessed them
everyone according to his blessing
he blessed them
and he charged them and said unto him
I am to be gathered unto my people
bury me with my fathers in the cave
that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite
the cave that is in the field of Machpelah
which is before Mamre
in the land of Canaan
which Abraham bought with the field
of Ephron the Hittite for a possession
for a burying place
there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife
there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife
and there I buried Leah
the purchase of the field and of the cave
that is therein was from the children of Heth
and when Jacob had made
an end of commanding his sons
he gathered up his feet into the bed
and yielded up the ghost and was gathered
unto his people
Brother Bill will you pray for us?
Thank you for bringing us up to church tonight
thank you for the reading of his word
open our understanding to this great chamfer
and help us to get some truth
Amen we're in Genesis 49 again
so this is the third sermon I've preached out of it
and I began I think
and I could just preach two sermons
and kind of cover the twelve sons of Israel
and some of the things said about them
are shorter and some of them are longer
and I just kind of
started digging in and finding some stuff
I really liked and so I decided
to preach more sermons out of it
so I probably will preach one more sermon out of it
obviously I'm going to preach
about Joseph
and Benjamin and the last one
and then cover the final part
of the chapter
and so tonight I'm going to go from Gad
to Naphtali and last time
I think I finished up with Dan
I preached a lot about
Samson
and I forgot to kind of mention
about how
the tribe of Dan basically set up
in the later parts of Judges
where the tribe of Dan goes and
takes that Levite away from Micah
I mean there's basically all kinds
of messed up things going on but in the end
the tribe of Dan comes and captures
this Levite
and then takes him as
their priest and it says that
basically it was
that they had
a priest over this
idol
that they had made until
they were carried away by Assyria
so they didn't end up
doing too well in the end
so as a matter of fact
God took the kingdom
of heaven away from
the nation of Israel which is what
all these sons became the nation
of Israel and so all of them
really fell including even the
tribe of Judah when Jesus Christ
came the kingdom
was in shambles so he came
at the appointed time
and it was probably because
that was the needed time for him
to come, obviously it was so
anyway we're going to start with
Gad and go through
him and basically what I'm doing is
if you look at verse
number 1 it says
and Jacob called unto his sons and said
gather yourselves together that I may tell you
that which shall befall you in the last
days gather yourselves together and hear
ye sons of Jacob and hearken
unto Israel
your father and so basically I'm just kind of
going through kind of
just some details about some
of these patriarchs
here, the sons of Jacob
and some of the highlights
or lowlights of their careers and basically
kind of how they ended up
and so the one
for Gad is a very interesting one
and we're going to spend probably most of our time
talking about
this son Gad and there's not a lot
said about him here, it says
in verse number 19 it says
Gad a troop shall
overcome him but he
shall overcome at
the last so
a troop shall overcome him
well why does it
say that, why is it
play on words here because
what Gad means is a troop
so he was named that
if you look back to Genesis chapter 30
verse number 10 real quick
Genesis 30 verse number 10
he's named that
for a reason
it says and Zilpah
Leah's made
bear Jacob a son
and Leah said a troop
cometh and she
called his name Gad
Gad means a troop
and so that's why
he's called Gad, so Gad means
troop right and so in Genesis
49 back in our text it says
a troop shall overcome him
but he shall overcome
at the last
so let's go through some
spiritual significance
for Gad, there's not a lot in here
so it'll be a short
jaunt through
his spiritual significance
so turn over to Joshua chapter 22
and remember
the children of Israel
Reuben and Gad
and the half tribe of Manasseh
they inherited their
inheritance on the other side of Jordan
and they picked that spot
when they beat Og of Bashan
before the children
of Israel even went over
into the promised land, so they
chose land that was not even
really part of the promised
land because
you know they thought it was a great place
they built castles and walls and
built towns and left their children and their
animals there and then they went off
because they were supposed to fight with the
other children of Israel
and so they were held to that
and then once all the
fighting was done
they went back and inherited
where they were supposed to inherit
and then after that happened
the children of Israel
I mean the children of Reuben
and Gad they built this
altar and all the rest of the tribes
came to make war with them and to
destroy them because they thought that they made an
altar and broke away from God
if you remember the story at all
so they got
the wrong conclusion though that altar was
built actually for a spiritual reason
and it says in the children of
Reuben verse 34
the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called
the altar Ed
shall be a witness between us
that the Lord is God
and so basically they kind of give this speech as to
why they did it but it was a spiritual
thing that the children of Gad did so
they built this altar that's not
they weren't sacrificing on it because they're only supposed to
sacrifice in one place they're only supposed to go
to one place every year or
to all the different feasts and things like that
and were the place
where the Lord picked and so basically
them making this altar
on their border was like a declaration
of war with the rest of the tribes
so but a spiritual thing
that Gad did well they built this altar that was
not to be used it was to be a witness
that they you know a witness
between them and the other side of Jordan
the other tribes that inherited
that the Lord is God so that's a
good thing right that they're
acknowledging that the Lord is God they're trying to do
something right
but really that's the end
of any spiritual significance
of the tribe of Gad
that's that's pretty much it
I mean you might be able to find some
references and I'm sure there was good people
I'm sure that there was there was good
people but you know you have to
understand that you know not everybody
in Israel was saved obviously
but there was always a remnant of people
that the Lord had called
and saved in the 12
tribes until they were basically
kind of carried off and even then he still left
a remnant in the land there's always
going to be a remnant in any place
where people are saved around the world
so now
let's remember the end
and we've gone to this quite a few times
let's turn over to First Chronicles chapter 5 verse 26
cause we've been talking about a lot of different
names and things like this
but remember that these
specific tribes
that I just mentioned Gad
and the half tribe of Manasseh
and Reuben who inherited
on the other side of Jordan
they
were carried away
by the king of Assyria look what it says
in verse 26
it says and the God of Israel stirred
up the spirit of Pol king
of Assyria and the spirit of Tilgath
Pelezner king of Assyria
and he carried them away
even the Reubenites and
the Gadites and the half tribe
of Manasseh and brought them
unto Hala and Habor and
Hara and to the river Gozon
unto this day so this is in
the time of First Chronicles
you always say well what are you going to learn
out of First Chronicles the first 9 chapters
are just a bunch of names
well I mean this is in First Chronicles chapter 5
and it helps us to understand
you wouldn't know that Samuel
was able to be the
priest that he was
and to be able to do all the burnt sacrifices
that he was able to if he didn't read about
him in First Chronicles you wouldn't even know
that from just reading First Samuel
so anyway
there's a lot of good information in
the names as people would call them
or the genealogies
and things like that
but if you think about it so what is
the prophecy that Jacob says about
Gad a troop shall
overcome him right
a troop shall overcome him so what happened
to Gad well he was carried
away by a troop wasn't he
an army of people that were
led by the king of Assyria
and so they were taken out of the
land right by a troop
isn't that what the bible says isn't that what Jacob
said was going to happen a troop shall overcome
them so
now let's look at Joshua
chapter 13
and I know that I'm going back in time
compared to this scripture I just had you turn to
but I want to show you where the
tribe of Gad actually
inherited
so the tribe of Gad inherited
in a place and I know that I
showed you in my pretend
picture so if this
is the sea of Galilee
well let me go up here the sea
of Galilee is up here okay
and right here is the Jordan river comes
out of it and then it goes down into the dead sea
and then you know the tribes of
Israel they inherit on other
you know these other sides and so if you got
the sea of Galilee right here
Gad just gets a sliver
of that sea right there and then they get some
other land down against Jordan
so the children of Gad
and it'll explain that here in Joshua chapter
number 13 it says Moses gave inheritance
unto the tribe of Gad even
unto the children of Gad according to their
families and their coast was
Jezer and all the cities of
Gilead and half
the land of the children of Ammon
unto Erewar
that is before Rabbah now you probably don't
mentally picture these places you've probably never been
there it doesn't really matter the point is
is that it's explaining
to you where their borders are and it says
from Heshbon unto
Ramoth Mizpeh
and Betanim and from
Mahanim unto the border of
Deir and in the valley
Betharim and
Beth-Nimra
and Succoth
and Zaphon and the rest of the kingdom
of Sihon king of Heshbon
Jordan
and his border even unto
the edge of the sea of Chinerus
so I just explained to you
that's the Jordan river and
even unto the edge of the sea of
Chinerus you're like well that doesn't say the sea
of Galilee you're right
because it wasn't called the sea of Galilee at that time
it was called Chinerus the sea
of Chinerus on the other side
of Jordan eastward
so remember I said here's the
here's the sea of Galilee here's
the Jordan river and Gad
has butted up to the Jordan river here on the
east side and then a little
space right here on
the sea of Galilee I should have got
like a white board or something but
anyway that probably would have been a better long lasting picture
than my finger on something that doesn't look like a sea
but anyway
just work with it alright
so Chinerath on the other side
of Jordan eastward is the
same as the sea of Galilee
which is of course where Jesus and the
apostles spent a lot of time going back and forth
in boats and
things like that and it says this
is the inheritance of the children of Gad after
their families the cities
and their villages
so I wanted to explain that to you because
in the new testament
we have where Jesus
goes to a place called
the country of the Gadarenes
let's turn over to Mark chapter number 5
I think I've explained this before
but last week we were talking about this stuff
after church and
brother Robert and between brother Robert
and some other people you know
I just kind of had a little bit of an epiphany
how you can
you can actually
you can see the literal fulfillment
of the tribe of Gad being
taken over by a troop
which was the Assyrian empire
and then you can also see the spiritual aspect
of a troop overcoming
him in the new testament
and obviously from the old testament
to the new testament you have
people that are part Gadites
part whatever else has come in and
conquered the land over time
and about 2000 years ago you have this place
called the land of the Gadarenes
and if you look at your new testament maps
and again you can't always trust every map
that you see so that's why it's so important
that the bible gives you these borders
and things like that and maybe they don't know
we don't know where all that stuff is
but a lot of it's pretty
pretty well solidified
so it says and they came over
look at Mark chapter 5 verse 1
and they came over onto the other side of the sea
into the country of the Gadarenes
and so like I said this is probably like
a mixed multitude but it does have
Gad in the name you notice that?
and that's probably because
that's where Gad used to be
it's not exactly
there was Judah basically
the kingdom of Judah was all that was really left
and they were at this time
taken over by the Romans
and so they didn't rule their own
country at the time they were just under
subjection to the Roman government
so look at verse 2
it says and when he was come out of the ship
immediately there met him
out of the tombs a man
with an unclean spirit
who had his dwelling
among the tombs
and no man could bind him
no not with chains
because he had been often bound
with fetters and chains
and the chains had been plucked
asunder by him
and the fetters broken in pieces
neither could any man tame him
well this guy who comes out
and he's
dwelling in the tombs
he's often bound with fetters
and chains we're talking about things that are made out of
steel or brass
or some kind of hard metal
chains this guy literally is tied up with
chains because he's such a maniac
he's called the maniac of Gedera
usually in a
sermon or even if you find like
little headers in your bible at the top of
certain portions of scripture it'll say
the maniac of Gedera
so
it says
and the chains had been plucked asunder by him
so he's so strong because
he's possessed by multiple
devils we'll see that here in a minute
he's very strong
and he's able to break these chains and break
look it says and the fetters
broken in pieces
neither could any man tame him
nobody could get the mastery over him
he was unrestrainable
he's like the people over in Portland
that are just like
freaking out and just
doing all kinds of crazy stuff
because they're possessed by devils also
a lot of those people
so I'm not saying everybody is
some people are literally just out of their minds
but some people are possessed
by devils they still exist today folks
they didn't just disappear
so
we have this man
in this land called Gedera
or the land of the
Gadarenes
where Gad once was
as a nation basically
as one of the 12 tribes of Israel
and it says in verse 5
and always night and day
he was in the mountains and in the tombs
crying and cutting himself
with stones
and this is what a lot of people that are influenced
by devils or possessed by devils will do
all day and night they're acting
freaky
in the mountains and in the
tombs
these people are like devil worshippers
they like to hang around in graveyards
because they worship death
and so it says
crying he's not literally crying
like as in weeping tears he's crying
out and just like you know you've
seen the people that are on
these fentanyl rages and all these
crazy drugs that they're on
and they're screeching and making noises
like zombies this is what
he's doing
you know I mean that's what they do
and it says and cutting
themselves with stones they're trying to hurt themselves
you see in other parts of the scriptures where
you know this kid is possessed by a devil
and he's trying to throw himself into the water to drown
himself because the devils
the devil wants to kill you
his minions want to kill you the other devils
want to kill you and destroy you and destroy
your life and they're looking for a way
to get into people's lives
and obviously Christians cannot be possessed by devils
so I'm not saying that but people
anybody that's not saved
are able to be possessed by Satan himself
or the devils
and you know when people
do drugs that are into alcohol
and all kinds of really
wicked sins that is a
foothold for the devil to be able to come into
that person's life and
you know he'll come into your life when
you're at your weakest when you're
you know at rock bottom so to speak
and will try to possess
people and things
like that and so you know that's why
you don't play around with the occult kids
you don't play around with that kind of stuff
you know
all the stuff that's tied to witchcraft
just stay away from that garbage
there's a reason why God says not to get involved with it
you're like well God just doesn't want me to
have fun it's not fun
does it sound like this guy is having fun
it doesn't sound like it to me it sounds
like he's having a miserable life
here and these devils are controlling
him and making him hurt himself
and all kinds of other stuff you know
there's a lot of kids that cut themselves
today why do they do that
well it's an influence from the devil you think they
just learn it themselves no
there's something influencing them to do these
things and maybe it's just their
possessed friend at school or something
but look Christians ought not to ever get
involved in that kind of stuff
it's like I cut myself so
I can feel something that's weird
it's just you know but
kids like to mimic what other
kids do and that's why it's a good
reason to keep your kids
out of public school
in my opinion so
and you know the Bible says that it's up to
the parents to
train their children and to educate
them so anyway it says
when Jesus when he saw
Jesus afar off
he ran and worshipped him
and cried with a loud voice and
said what have I to do
with thee Jesus thou son of the most
high God see the devils
know who Jesus is
so like that verse in James when it says
the devils believe and tremble
they believe because they know who he is
they can see him they know him for what
he is the son of God
of the most high God it says I adjure
thee by God that thou torment me
not so he doesn't want
the son of God to torment
him this demon that's
talking to him out of this man's
body and it says and he said unto him
come out of the man
thou unclean spirit
and he asked him what is
thy name and he answered saying
my name is Legion
for we are many
now I just thought this was really
interesting and actually brother Robert kind of said
well that seems like it's a fulfillment
of what Jacob was saying
and you know what I think he's right
I think he was right because
if you look up the definition of Legion
so it's a unit of
three to six thousand men
in the ancient Roman
army so
a legion has a
some synonyms to it guess what
there's regiment
there's battalion
and what do you think the other one is
troop
yeah
so it's troop I thought that
was really interesting and I was just looking
it up and I wasn't trying to make a round
peg fit into a square
hole but I just looked up
legion and sure enough troop is one
of the synonyms so Legion is just another
word for troop it means the exact same
thing so
when it says a troop shall overcome
him it can
also be talking about
this spiritual aspect of
this remnant of the Gadites
where he is possessed
by a legion of devils
so he was
they were literally taken out for being
idolaters and devil
worshippers by the Assyrian
army years later
we come to Jesus time when
there's a remnant of these Gadites
called the Gadarenes in
the land of Gadara you got this
maniac of Gadara so
as a so-called who's possessed by devils
and he's possessed by a
legion of devils
he tells Jesus my name
is Legion for we are many it's not just
one devil that's possessing him it's
thousands of devils that's possessing him
so I mean
you're in the boat with Jesus
you're seeing all this stuff
play out you're one of his disciples
and then some demon
voice starts coming out of this person he
just looks like an insane guy
I think there's other places where it says
that he's actually naked
and that he
was I think it's the same guy if I'm
I hope I'm not mixing them up
but that he was clothed and in his right mind
later on so
but yeah
I think that that's very interesting that it's
that he's you know the demon's
called Legion and what Jacob
said was going to happen happened
not only physically but it also
happens spiritually now let's
skip down to verse number 18 so
he cast those
demons into a bunch of pigs and it's like
thousands of them and they all
run off the hill and are choked into the sea
that's the part I'm skipping so
look at verse 18 when it says
and when he was coming to the ship
he that had been possessed with the devil
prayed him that he might be
with him so he wants to go with
Jesus this man
and it says how be it Jesus suffered him not
but saith unto him go home
to thy friends
and tell them how great things
the Lord hath done for thee
and had and have had
compassion on thee
and he departed and began to publish
into capitalist how great things
Jesus had done for him
and all men did marvel
so
what did Jesus do here well
he freed him
didn't he he freed him from this
legion of devils that was controlling
him Genesis 49
19 says God a troop shall
overcome him but he shall
overcome at the last
that's a great scripture there
he shall overcome at
the last and so Jesus
did these great things for him he
had compassion on him he freed him
from these devils and then he sends
them off to do what to tell other
people what great things
the Lord had done for him
and he departed and began to publish it into
capitalist how great things Jesus had done
for him and so you know
I mean if you want to take the spiritual
application and maybe even the literal application
here is that in
the end dad turned it around
and maybe it was just a remnant of
the Gadites one man that came
in who's possessed of devils
he was bound he was chained
he was in fetters he was
unable to get
away from this devil until Jesus came and he
healed him and he said get out of them
you know get out of this man
and he
was released from his chains
his spiritual chains also
he was enslaved he was
imprisoned by this devil
now let's turn over to 1 John
chapter 5 verse number 4
1 John chapter 5
verse number 4
see God doesn't come
to the righteous but he comes
for the sinners that need salvation
they need repentance right
1 John chapter 5 verse number 4
the Bible says
for whatsoever is born of God
over cometh the world
and this is the victory
that over cometh the world
even our faith
so it's very interesting
how the wording of Jacob is
he shall overcome
at the last and how the Bible says
to overcome the world
is to what have faith right
it says what is the victory that over cometh
the world even our faith
and it says in verse number 5
who is he that over cometh the world
but he that believeth that Jesus
is the son of God
so this man in the end
this man named Gad doesn't say much about him
and what he's going to do
but one thing that we know for sure
is that he overcame in the end didn't he
and he went out and told all his friends
and the people around the other cities
what great things Jesus had done for him
and so
some application for us
well you know what you can count on the scriptures
and God's promises to come to pass
Jacob said this thousands of years ago
and it came to pass
and you know maybe
you have to do a little digging around to figure stuff out
and maybe have some help from your friends
to figure this stuff out but Robert
I mean that just kind of unlocked it for me right there
I was like wow that's really cool
I think that's a great find in the Bible
and
so another thing we can do
to apply it to our self here
is that
the Bible is an amazing book
you should read it
you should read the Bible
I mean it's an amazing book
and it's going to teach you how to
act it's going to teach you what God
expects from you it's going to teach you
how to raise your children it's going to teach you how to be a good
spouse or a good husband or a good wife
it's going to teach you how to be a good grandparent
it's going to teach you how to
behave yourself in this world
and what the Lord is going
to do for you when you keep his
commandments the blessings that you're going to get
in this life and you know what's going to help you figure out
what the Bible you know the different layers
of the Bible and the things that you can find
the nuggets of truth that you can find
as you study this book you should study
this book because it's awesome
it's great it's an amazing book
and then the other thing that
you should think about also is that
one saved individual
can change
and make a difference in this world
so this is one man
right but where's he from
he's from this
this area of Gad
this one man who
Jesus helps see Jesus has to
fix us Jesus has to make us whole
but once Jesus does that
one individual can make such a difference
in this world that like this
scripture is fulfilled
through this one man
that Jesus saves and Jesus
frees from these devils and he goes off
and tells other people how to
be saved now what happened where's the
tribe of Gad now
I don't know
but I'll tell you what they overcame at the last
that's what the Bible says
and maybe they're lost to the annals of history now
and everybody's mixed together
and what not and according to the
black Hebrew Israelites is probably
somebody from another country that's
brown okay
but you know what we know
we don't know anything we don't
know what happened to them genealogies mean nothing
to us anymore avoid genealogies
is what the Bible says
but God is still going to keep his promises
and even though it was just some
remnants some devil possessed
man I mean do you think that that was like a chance
encounter or something
do you think that Jesus just happened to go to
that point at that time
when that man who was possessed with
devils just happened to be right there
I don't think so
I think Jesus probably knew that that man was there
and I think he probably knew that that man
of course he's the Lord right
he knows everything
so this man comes and Jesus
is there to meet him there
it's what you call a divine
appointment you know we have
those things all the time when we're out
soul winning and we might not even
think about it afterwards for more than a few
minutes but maybe that I mean
if we sit down and think about some of the people we got
saved sometimes those things are divine
appointments like you know
what it's so weird I was just thinking
that I needed to get back into church
and then you showed up at my door
do you think that's a coincidence
God would you please send
somebody to show me how
to be saved you know it's so
weird I was just thinking the other day
that I need to know how to
be saved and then like you're at their door
it's not a coincidence folks
God is going to make sure
that we're set up for our divine appointments
and he was there when he was
supposed to be wasn't he and he made
that change in that man's life and his
life was never the same and he was freed
you know what and what when you get saved
it's freedom it's freedom
in Christ where the spirit of
liberty is or where the
spirit of the excuse me where the
spirit of God is there is liberty
so very cool story
about Gad Asher
you know
this one's not as cool but
anyway number nine the ninth
son that I want to talk about is Asher
we'll move on
Asher is in Genesis chapter 49 verse 20
he was kind of a foodie
out of
Asher his
bread shall be fat and
he shall yield royal dainties
I mean there
could be worse things said about you
I mean I read
this and I was like well what am I going to do with this
really
so
it sounds like you know food's a big thing for him
you know the bread's
going to be fat bro
fat bread and yield royal
dainties and dainties is kind of like
a really special kind of
dish or something
it could be like really good meat
you know like a ribeye or something with shrimp
I don't know I don't know you know
dainties is like you know
special kinds of foods and things like that
so but it says
yield royal dainties so I don't know if
maybe they came became the cooks for like
the Judah the tribes of Judah or
something I don't know it doesn't really say
what that exactly means
and maybe I just need to study
a little harder but let's look over at Genesis
chapter 30 verse 13 and
we'll get a little bit of
who he was
who his mommy was
Genesis 30 verse 13 just keep
your finger in Genesis 49
we're going to be turning to a couple of different scriptures
here but Genesis chapter 30
verse 13 says
Leah said happy am I
for the daughters will call me
blessed and she called
his name Asher
so Asher is the son
of Leah and so
you know he had
his so his real brother was Judah
and some
some of the other I think Levi and Simeon
but anyway he
was you know he's not like a
super well known tribe
you know you don't like if you think about tribes
in the Bible like does Asher
is he one of the first ones you think about
no he's really not
but there is a cool story about
some of the remnant of Asher
so I'll be turning over to 2 Chronicles chapter
30 verse 5
so out of Asher his
bread shall be fat and he
shall yield royal dainties
so again
I mean this is a tough one so
but 2 Chronicles
chapter 30 verse 5
now what's happening
here is Hezekiah
is proclaiming a Passover
the children of Israel are super
backslidden they're pretty much
you know the 10 tribes
are pretty much just you know remnants of
what was there in times
past you know they're kind of intermingled
with other people they're still a
remnant though and not all those remnant
are good people look at verse 5
it says so they establish
a decree to make proclamation throughout
all Israel from Beersheba
even to Dan and that's like another
way of saying like all of Israel
was told about this Passover that Hezekiah was
going to keep and it says
that they should come to keep
the Passover unto the Lord God of
Israel at Jerusalem
for they had not done it
of a long time in such sort
as it is written
so basically I mean they're so backslidden that the Passover
isn't being kept and
it's not being kept right at least
and verse 6 says so the post
went from the
letters from the king and his princes
throughout all Israel and Judah
and according to the commandment of the king
saying he children of Israel
turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham Isaac
and Israel and he will return
to the remnant of you
that are escaped out of the hand
of the kings of Assyria
so there are people that escaped
that's what the Bible is saying here right
but he said hey if you'll turn back
to God the God of Abraham
Isaac and Israel he'll return
to the remnant of you
so these tribes are still
in existence to a certain extent
because it actually
says some of the names of the tribes
that are going to
respond to this letter now look what it says
in verse 7 it says and be not
ye like your fathers and like
your brethren which trespassed against the
Lord God of their fathers who therefore gave
them up to desolation as
ye see now be not
stiff necked as your fathers were
but yield yourselves unto the Lord
and enter into a sanctuary
which he has sanctified forever
and serve the Lord your God
and the fierceness of his wrath
may turn away from you
for if you turn again
unto the Lord your brethren
and your children shall find
compassion before them
that lead them captive so that
they shall come again into this land
for the Lord your God is gracious
and merciful
and will not turn away his face
from you if
you return unto him
so I mean just really quickly
the place that's called
Israel over there right now did they do this
they didn't do this
they're stuck in their
Judaism and the
religion of Judaism they have
not returned unto the
Lord with their heart
so look at verse 10 it says
so the post
passed from city to city
through the country of Ephraim
and Manasseh even unto
Zebulun but they
laughed them to scorn
and mocked them so these
people that are the remnants that are left
in the land it's like God's given
them one more chance here
to not just totally smoke them
beyond
being able to come back from
but the children of Ephraim and
Manasseh those are the sons of Joseph
and Joseph was such a great
man in the book of Genesis
it's hard for me to wrap my mind around
the fact that his sons end up so bad
the way that they are and Ephraim
is like a huge huge tribe
it's one of the biggest tribes in
Israel if not the biggest and
Manasseh and
it says they even went up to Zebulun
it says but they laughed them to scorn
and mocked them so here's God trying
to stretch out his hand one more time and say
hey come back to me
and I'll bless you I'll take care of you
I'll let you come back into the land
and won't totally destroy you
and they're laughing at them and mocking them
and that's what people do with the Bible a lot of times
don't they?
and even if you apply this
spiritually to people that are
saved but won't come back
sometimes God
he has to
at some point be done with you
not to say that he's done with you
that you're going to hell as a Christian
but you're still going to go to heaven
but God if you're just going to turn away
from God and just not do anything he says
he's going to smite you
and spank you and
he might end up even killing you
because God expects you
to serve him
not to be saved but because
he wants us to keep his commandments
we have a mission here
is there a race that we're running?
well the mission is
get people saved
and guess what it's mission possible
because with God all things are possible
aren't they?
so it's mission possible
but you know what makes it hard?
do nothing Christians that don't want to go out
and serve the Lord
that's what makes it mission impossible sometimes
and sometimes it feels like we're the only ones
we're not the only ones that are doing things
but sometimes it feels that way
isn't it?
but you know hey be faithful
don't be one of the people that are counted like these people
that laugh and mock at the people of God
when they're preaching the Bible
I mean how far back do you have to actually be
that you're going to mock some
preacher that's preaching
the word of God to you
or inviting you to come back
and be a part of something
like there's people that have left here
and I'd love to have some of these people come back
not all of them
there's people I would love to have come back
I would love for them to just say
hey you know what I was backslidden
for a while but I'm back
and I'd be like here come on in
and I would hope that everybody in our church would treat them right
but of course there's some people
that I wouldn't want to have come back
well that's another sermon for a different time right?
but now look at what it says in verse number 11 here
it says
nevertheless the verse of
who?
Asher the food guy
Asher and Manasseh
and of Zebulun
what did they do? they humbled themselves
and came to Jerusalem
even though their friends were probably
making fun of them saying are you kidding me
you're really going to go to Jerusalem?
what's wrong with you?
they didn't care
they humbled themselves
and they obeyed the word of the Lord
also in Judah the hand of God
was to give them one heart
to do the commandment of the king
Jesus by the word of the Lord
you know what they said you know what
I don't care if you laugh at me
I don't care what anybody says
I'm going to do what the word of the Lord says
and I'm going to go back to Jerusalem
and I'm going to keep the feast of the Passover
like the Lord commanded us to do
and it says in verse 13
and they're assembled at Jerusalem much people
to keep the feast of unleavened bread
in the second month
a very great congregation
as a matter of fact if you read the whole story
it's one of the best Passovers that's ever happened
in the history of Israel
so
Asher does have a pretty good story there
but I mean
for the most part
there's not a lot about the tribe of Asher
about
you know anything that means anything
but think about this
what is the Passover here?
what are they eating?
they're eating unleavened bread
I just thought it was kind of interesting
it says you know that
out of Asher his bread shall be fat
and shall yield royal dainties
so I don't know
I don't know if this is
maybe I'm stretching it here a little bit
but the fact that they came to eat bread
you know with this great congregation
you know maybe there's something to tie in there
I don't know
it's probably a stretch but
it is talking about bread isn't it?
it says bread
you know but it's skinny bread that they came to eat
and what's the lesson here?
well you can make a comeback
even when you're backslidden
I probably mentioned that last week
but let me mention it again
because what is the state of all the sons here?
they all get backslidden
they all get away from God
and let that be a lesson to us
we're not above that happening to us
take heed lest you fall
you can get to a point where you're so
backslidden that all of a sudden
next thing you know you're out of church
don't ever get there folks
it's a sad state to live in
as a Christian because it's never the same
that glimmer of the world
that you used to love
and you used to love all that stuff
it's not going to be so
dazzling to you anymore
when God just sits there and chastens you
hard for the things that you're
trying to go back to
He saved you out of that life
and then to go back to all that stuff
is just a slap in God's face
look at it that way you're slapping God in the face
you're spitting back in Jesus' face
just like all the people
that put Him upon the cross
you're spitting in His face
He saved you and then you're just going to go back to that?
you know I mean just
maybe let that be in your mind
next time you want to just say you know what I'm done with this
this is just too much I can't handle this
all this stuff is happening in my life
and you know what it's going to be a lot worse
going back to that old life I'll tell you that right now
so
you know if Asher
and Manasseh and Zebulun
can do it you can do it too
so if you're backsliding in your heart
come back to the Lord
there's always a righteous remnant
isn't that what it said?
let me get back to that verse
it says in verse 6
ye children of Israel turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham Isaac and Israel
and He will return to the remnant of you
so isn't that what the Bible says
that you know you draw nigh unto God
and He'll draw nigh unto you
in the book of James
so if we get close to God
He's going to move close to us
so you know it's not too late for you
if you're still alive if your heart is still beating
and you're a Christian
you want to humble yourself and come back to the Lord
He's going to accept you with open arms
and God will save those
that humble themselves
and God will forgive you
and He'll show you favor again
He's going to bless you
but He's going to show favor to you again
it's not like you have to just hide under a stool
for the rest of your life
because you got backslidden and you came back
some people in this room
are saved and have been backslidden before
and we probably go through
little tremors of backsliding
all the time
but you don't tell anybody about it
it's not something you like to share with people
oh I felt backslidden today
or I felt like giving it up
I felt like going back
nobody likes to admit that
but you know in your heart
that we have little backsliding tremors
that we get into sometimes
maybe it's weeks
maybe it's months
because a lot of times when people leave churches
it takes them a long time
you can see the signs of it happening
I can see the signs of it happening to people
and so I like to warn people
about those things
it seems like sometimes people just don't listen
no matter what you say
and obviously people can make up their own minds
I'm not your daddy
so I'm your pastor
and I'm going to try to push you in the right direction
I'm going to try to lead you in a way
that you should go
but ultimately you all make your own decisions
on what you're going to do in life
let's go to the last one, Naphtali
well the last one for the night
number 10, Naphtali
the Bible says in Genesis chapter 49 verse 21
Naphtali is a hind let loose
he giveth goodly words
one sentence for him
and really he's not a big player
in the game of the tribes of Israel
he's not really mentioned a lot
there is a story in Judges about
one of his descendants though
but a hind let loose would be like a deer
that's like maybe trapped in a pen or something
is what I think of
and you let it loose and it just takes off or whatever
but he giveth goodly words
there's nothing wrong with that
that's a good thing to give people goodly words
well let's turn to Judges chapter 4
and we'll look at
a man of Naphtali
and some of this is a little bit negative
but it's also positive at the same time
to a certain extent
the children of Israel at this point are so backslidden
that a woman is leading them
and the Bible actually says that that's a curse
it's a curse but obviously Deborah was a blessing
because at least she stepped up
where no other man would
she even has a husband
Deborah prophetess a wife of Lapidoth
she judged Israel at that time
and so she was more manly as far as being able to be a leader than her own husband
I mean that's a place of woe
when the women are dominating and leading here
it's not a good thing
the Bible is not saying this is a good thing
it's just saying what the facts are
and she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah
between Ramah and Bethel
in Mount Ephraim
and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment
she sent and called Barak
the son of Abinoham
out of Kadesh-Nephthali
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
and of the children of Zebulun
so I'm guessing here that Barak
since he is
he's
out of the city of
what does it say
Kadesh-Nephthali
and that he's supposed to take ten thousand children
of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun
that he's of that tribe
and says and I will draw unto thee
to the river Kishon-Sisera
the captain of Jabin's army
and with his chariots
and his multitude and I will deliver him
into thine hand
and Barak said unto her
if thou will go with me
then I will go
but if thou will not go with me
then I will not go
this kind of shows the state of Israel
at this time
you know she's like trying to get this man
to be a leader
you know and so
this is the good story of Naphtali
that a man who needs
to have a woman go with him
in order for him to go
I mean there's positive things about this story
nothing wrong
God gave them a great victory
but it wouldn't have been done
without Deborah
and Barak at least he went
I mean that's a positive thing
at least he went
and he gathered those people together to fight
but to say that he won't go to fight
unless a woman goes with him
I mean that's kind of weak isn't it
so I mean there's some negatives
like I said there's some positives to this part of the story
but it says in
one more chapter
so they end up defeating them
and Deborah goes with them
they win the war
a woman actually kills the king
Sisera and puts a spike
a tent spike between his temple
she brings him
milk and some butter
and a lordly dish
and she
spikes him through the head
so
she like puts a blanket on him
treats him all in the eyes
he's just thinking
just like the
spike goes through his head
I think that she cuts his head off too
we can talk about that later
but anyway
it says in Judges 5 18
Zebulun and Naphtali
were a people that
jeopardized their lives
unto the death in the high places
of the field
so this is a positive part
of Naphtali that they at least
were willing to go
and jeopardize their lives
unto the death to fight
for what was right
and so I mean
again not a lot of positive stuff
about this tribe but
there's a few other mentions here
I've got a few more minutes here
so let's turn over to 1 Kings 7 verse 13
1 Kings 7 verse 13
there's another man
of Naphtali
got a little bit of fame
it says
and King Solomon
set and fetched Hiram out of Tyre
he was a widow's son
of the tribe of Naphtali
his father was a man
of Tyre, a worker in brass
and he was filled with wisdom
and understanding and cunning
to work all works in brass
and he came to King Solomon
and wrought all his work
so this man who's of the tribe of Naphtali
a widow's son
and his dad
is a man of Tyre
a worker in brass
but this man was filled with all skill
and he was able to do a lot of great things
and build things for the house of the Lord
and he's also the inspiration
for the Freemasons
you know they use Hiram
as like
they obviously bastardize him
and try to make it seem like
you know
that's one of the things that the Freemasons say
I was a widow's son or whatever
and you know
they base a lot of their stuff off of King Solomon
and this Hiram
they say his name is Hiram of Biff
but the Bible doesn't say that
and that he was stabbed to death or something
I don't know, I don't want to get too deep into that
but they use this guy
as some bad thing
but the Bible talks about him being a good man
at least
working for King Solomon
to do something great for the Lord
2 Kings 15, verse 29
says, in the days of Pekah
Pikachu, king of Israel
just kidding
in the days of Pekah, king of Israel
came Tilgath-Pulisar
king of Assyria and took I John
and
Abel-Beth-Makkah
and Genoa
and Kadesh
and Hazor and Gilead
and Galilee
and the land of Naphtali and carried
them captive to
Assyria
so we see here that
another
this man here, Tilgath-Pulisar
he also took
other tribes
but it talks about him taking the land of Naphtali
carrying them away captive
it says, nevertheless, the dimness shall not be
such as was in her vexation
when at the first he lightly afflicted
the land of Zebulun in the land of Naphtali
and afterward, did more grievously
afflict her by the way of the sea
beyond Jordan in Galilee
of the nations and we've talked about
this before but
that was when I was mentioning Zebulun
so it's also
the land of Naphtali so
that area where Jesus Christ did a lot of his work
is in the area of Galilee
in the nations
and so why is it called Galilee in the nations?
well it once belonged to Israel
but now it belongs to
the nations which is in the
New Testament called
what?
the Gentiles, yeah
so nations means Gentiles
so I don't want to turn over to Matthew
because I've already done that in the previous sermon before
but basically this is a prediction
of the fact that there's going to be this great light
and that light is Jesus
and so
in the land of Naphtali at least
people are still getting saved
kind of like the nation of Gad
I mean there's probably still people that were remnants of this tribe
Zebulun and also
Naphtali that got saved
and there was some mixed reviews of Jesus in those areas
in the place of Nazareth where he was born
he was rejected
and they tried to throw him off a cliff and kill him
the first time he ever preached a sermon
I think you had a bad day as your first time preaching
you know
he gets up and
goes to preach and then they're like
kill him!
I mean immediately
nobody tried to kill me the first time I preached
so anyway
let's turn back to Genesis chapter number 49
we'll finish here
it says
Naphtali is a hind let loose
he giveth goodly words
so I showed you a couple of instances
where Naphtali is mentioned
not a lot written about him
of course Jesus chose
that area to
work out of as his headquarters
and a lot of different times he went through there
in his earthly ministry
but
the nice thing
that's said about him is that he giveth goodly words
and so
how can we apply that to our own lives
well you know
as one of the children of Israel
the spiritual Israel
we could be like Naphtali in the way that we
also give goodly words
we treat people
right and say
right things to other people
goodly things instead of
always being harsh, always being upset
we should be
a people that
uses our tongue for kindness to people
obviously everybody has bad days
I'll say that
even though I had a great weekend
I was a little grouchy on the way home yesterday
I didn't throw anybody out of the car
I'll just get quiet
when I'm kind of grumpy
because I know that if I'm not
I'm going to say something I regret
so
I wasn't mad at anybody I was just tired
so but
hey everybody has bad days right
everybody has a day where they're just like not on
the top of their game when it comes to being
nice and things like that
or in a great mood all the time
but nobody can possibly
be in a good mood every single day
but we should try our best to be
that way and when we speak
with people especially our own brethren
you know just like our
verse of the week says
be kindly affectioned one to another
with brotherly love in
honor preferring
one another I mean that's a great
scripture there
kindly affection
giveth goodly words
that's a good testimony of something
nice to say about something
you know didn't your parents ever say
if you can't say something nice don't say something at all
Jacob didn't really take that application
there were some things that he said
about some of his sons that were pretty negative
but I mean this isn't really
a negative thing to say
a few words were spoken
the Bible says in Proverbs 25
11 a word fitly spoken
is like apples of gold and pictures
of silver
so sometimes you know
just saying something nice to someone
brightening their day
is a good thing to do
maybe someone's having a bad day and you don't know whether you
lifted that person up
and made them feel better about something
you know you don't always know when people are having a bad day
you know so
we should be careful how we treat other people
because they might be having the worst day
they've ever had and they hold it
inside well
but maybe something you say that's goodly to that person
can help them
in some way shape or form
as Christians you know we should be willing
to go the extra mile with people
do good unto people
do good unto our neighbors
and of course treat our brothers and sisters
in Christ very well
be very kindly
be kindly affection to one another
preferring one another
love one another
there's a novel idea for Christians to love each other
so anyway that is
part 3 of Genesis
49 or
sermon C let's pray
Lord we thank you Lord so much for the scriptures
and Lord for the lessons that we can learn
through the lives of other men long
dead but Lord we
we thank you Lord for the lessons
that we can get in scripture and the things
that we can learn as we go through the Bible
like this
very slowly sometimes but Lord
it's good for us to study
and to show ourselves approved Lord I pray that you'd help us
this week as we go our separate ways
Lord that you'd be with us that your Spirit
would be indwelling us
and filling us Lord and helping us to
be kindly affection to one another
to speak goodly words to other people
Lord to care about people
and Lord help us to
have our light shine before men
that they can see our good works and glorify
you Father which are in heaven
we thank you for
all the blessings of this weekend the people that got
saved and baptized Lord the people that got saved today
we just thank you for that
we thank you for the laborers in our church
that are willing to go
to all these different places
just in order to preach the gospel
and to fulfill the great commission
we thank you for them Lord all the people that do
all the hard work around here
just want to thank you for them too Lord
and of course in Jesus name we pray Amen
page 118 near to the heart of God
sing it out on the first
there is a place of quiet rest
near to the heart of God
a place where sin cannot molest
near to the heart of God
oh Jesus blessed Redeemer
sent from the heart of God
hold us who reign before thee
near to the heart of God
there is a place of comfort sweet
near to the heart of God
a place where we are Savior meet
near to the heart of God
oh Jesus blessed Redeemer
sent from the heart of God
hold us who reign before thee
near to the heart of God
there is a place of full release
near to the heart of God
a place where all is joy and peace
near to the heart of God
oh Jesus blessed Redeemer
sent from the heart of God
hold us who reign before thee
near to the heart of God
great singing, good to see you all today
we'd like to see you next week
brother Ramon can you ask us a word of prayer?
you