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Hello welcome to Bible believers Baptist Church, thank you for coming back this evening
For our afternoon service let's take our seats and open up our hymnals page 198 we're gonna sing there is power in the blood
Page 198 there is power in the blood
Page 198
On the first
Would you be free from the burden of sin
There's power in the blood
Power in the blood
Would you are evil a victory
Win there's wonderful power in the blood
There is power power
Wonder working power in the blood
Of the Lamb
There is power power
Wonder working power in the precious blood
Of the Lamb
Would you be free from your passion
From your passion in pride
There's power in the blood
Power in the blood
Come for a cleansing to Calvary's tide
There's wonderful power in the blood
There is power power
Wonder working power in the blood
Of the Lamb
There is power power
Wonder working power in the precious blood
Of the Lamb
Would you be wider much wider than snow
There's power in the blood
Power in the blood
Sin stains are lost in its life giving flow
There's wonderful power in the blood
There is power power
Wonder working power in the blood
Of the Lamb
There is power power
Wonder working power in the precious blood
Of the Lamb
On the last
Would you do service for Jesus your King
There's power in the blood
Power in the blood
Would you live daily his praises to sing
There's wonderful power in the blood
There is power power
Wonder working power in the blood
Of the Lamb
There is power power
Wonder working power in the precious blood
Of the Lamb
Amen. Great singing.
Brother Daniel, can you open us with a word of prayer?
Amen.
Amen. Page 195 will be our second song.
Look and Live, page 195.
Look and Live, page 195, on the first.
I've a message from the Lord, hallelujah
The message unto you I'll give
Tis 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
Tis recorded in his word, hallelujah
It is only that you look and live
I've a message full of love, hallelujah
A message, oh my friend, for you
Tis a message from above, hallelujah
Jesus said it and I know tis true
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
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 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
Good evening, welcome back to Bible Believers Baptist Church for the evening service
And I know it's probably already been a long day
Hopefully it's been a long good day, we had great service this morning
And I think we had 47 in church, I'm not sure how many we have so far
I think we have people still yet to come and I know that brother Robert was in an accident
So if you guys could keep him in prayer and him and Bella were in an accident
I think it was on the way back, so I think they're okay
I think they might be back now, but if you could just keep them in prayer
I know his car was a total loss
I know they got a ride home and everything is okay as far as that goes
I'm not sure how everything else is going
Did any of you guys get anybody?
Alright cool, so we'll get those numbers here in just a second
Does anybody need a bulletin right now? Anybody not get one this morning?
Alright the verses of the week are trust in the Lord with all thine heart
And lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways
Acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths
Of course that's proverbs 3, 5 and 6, awesome scriptures there
And let's see we had 56
In service on Friday night, 47 like I said this morning
The June tithes and offerings are in that middle bubble there about halfway down
The page and our salvation
Year to date are not accurate now
We had 15 saved on Saturday, yesterday
As we went out for about two hours, we had several soul winners
We went out for about two hours, we had four people go out for a little bit longer
Mostly just two hours, it's been kind of a heat wave around here
We have just the evening service to go tonight
We had Panda Express in between services so hopefully some of you got to go out there
And sweat that out and the wonderful cake and ice cream
So I hope you enjoyed the treats, kids, did you get all that
Energy worked off? Some of them are still
Looks like they're a little energized, some of them
Anyway, so the preaching schedule is there
We have all of our service times, 10.30am Sunday morning
3.30pm Sunday evening
Let's get those soul winning numbers, anybody saved today?
You had two, you had one, anybody else?
Okay, so
So two, you had one, and then who else?
Ryan?
Okay, so one, two, that's five?
Okay, I don't know about Robert or anybody else
Is there other people, did Josh go?
Did he get somebody? Okay, so we had
Five counted so far, if there's any else then we'll just make sure
We get that counted for today and
I think that's all we really have for announcements, of course again
It's my anniversary, so thanks to everybody that wished us a happy anniversary
We appreciate that, some of you just must have had it marked in your calendars or new somehow
I don't know how you knew, but you did
Anyway, that's all I have for announcements, let's go ahead and sing
Another song and then we'll receive the offer and I'll come up and grab Hannah
She's getting into all of her stuff over there
Alright
Let's go ahead and turn to page 124
For our third song, page 124
Lead me to Calvary
Page 124
Lead me to Calvary
On the first, king of my life
I crown thee now
Thine shall the glory be
Lest I forget thy thorn-crowned brow
Lead me to Calvary
Lest I forget Gethsemane
Lest I forget thy
Negony
Lest thy love for me
Lead me to Calvary
Show me the tomb where thou was slain
Tenderly mourned and wept
Angels and robes of light arrayed
Guarded thee whilst thou slept
Lest I forget Gethsemane
Lest I forget thy
Negony
Lest I forget thy love for me
Lead me to Calvary
Let me, like Mary, through the gloom
Come with a gift to thee
Show to me now the empty tomb
Lead me to Calvary
Lest I forget Gethsemane
Lest I forget thy
Negony
Lest I forget thy love for me
Lead me to Calvary
May I be willing, Lord, to bear
daily my cross for thee
Even thy cup of
greed to share, thou hast borne all
for me
Lest I forget Gethsemane
Lest I forget thy
Negony
Lead me to Calvary
Amen. Great singing, everyone. Thank you for singing
with us. At this time, we're going to receive our offering.
Brother Paul, could you please bless your offering for us?
Let us pray.
Thank you, Lord, for today, Lord. Thank you for using us, Father.
Thank you for the souls that have been saved today, Lord.
Just be at the preaching. Bless the offering, Lord.
And thank you for everything you do for us, Lord, for your love, grace, and mercy.
In Jesus' precious mighty name, I pray.
Amen.
Good afternoon. Go ahead and turn your Bibles to
Genesis 49. Genesis 49.
And here at Bible Believers Baptist Church, we read the entire
chapter before the preaching. Genesis
49, the Bible reads,
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel,
because thou winnest up to thy father's bed,
then defileth thou it. He went up to my
couch. Simeon and Levi are 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 brother 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 fowl unto the vine, and his asses
cult unto the choice 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 in haven of ships,
and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two
burdens, and he saw that the 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 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 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 bow, even a fruitful
bow 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. From thence 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 that was
separate from his brethren. 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 it is that their father
spake unto them, and blessed them. Everyone according
to his blessing he blessed them, and he charged them
and said unto them, 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, in 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 of
a burying place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah
his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah 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 Jason could you go ahead and pray for the
preaching please?
Amen, alright this evening I'm preaching a sermon called The Prophecy of Gad
and if you go to my church you might have already heard
some of the truths that I'm about to preach in this sermon, but this is the first time I've
ever preached a full length sermon about it, so I kind of
covered it a little bit. I'm going through the book of 1 Chronicles
which is nine chapters to start off with
genealogies. I don't know if anybody's been listening to that series, but I briefly
mentioned this last Thursday night, but I just sat down and I just
couldn't help myself but to write a whole sermon about it and
last night about, I don't know, nine o'clock I just got done with my first sermon
I was writing and I was just like this one's already done, so I'm just going to finish this one
up and preach it, so I hope it's a blessing.
So you have here in Genesis chapter 49 here, you have
in verse 19 the Bible says, Gad a troop shall overcome him
but he shall overcome at the last.
Now this is a prophecy given by Jacob, of course this is
Jacob prophesying unto all of his sons
and notice what it says at the very beginning of the
chapter, I'll just turn over there really quickly, and
it says, let's see, it
says in verse one it says, And Jacob called unto his sons
and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which may be
follow you in the last days. So in the last
days is, you know, technically really begins when
Jesus Christ begins to come upon the earth, right? The last days
start then and we are still in the last days, now of course we're not in
the last last days yet, but we're getting there, so
but, you know, these are things that are going to happen with them
also, you know, throughout their lifetimes but, you know, these tribes
aren't really in existence anymore, we don't know where
I mean, they exist, but we just don't know who they are, they don't know who they
are, there's no genealogies that tell us who they are, and
it's, and I just want to focus specifically on the prophecy of
Gad today, and it just, he just has one little line here from his
dad, that he, a troop shall overcome him,
but he shall overcome at the last. Let's have a word
of prayer, Heavenly Father, Lord, we just pray that you would watch over brother Robert and
Miss Bella, and Lord, I just got the news that they
are at the hospital, and that Bella's having some issues
with her leg going numb, and Lord I just pray that you would just be with them right now, Lord
that you would take care of her, and Lord
that you would be able to intervene with any health issues that are happening right
now, I pray that you would just be with them and bless them, and heal anything that's wrong,
and I pray that you would just help Robert
make great decisions, and I pray that you would be with Bella and comfort them,
we thank you for the brothers and sisters that are helping, Lord we pray for them,
and we know that you're the great physician and that you can heal all things, we ask you to do those
things tonight, Lord, Lord I pray that you fill me with your spirit as I preach, Lord
and I pray Lord that you would help the people to understand
the things that the Bible has to say to us in the spirit tonight,
in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Gad, a troop shall overcome him. Why does Jacob say this?
It's a very interesting statement in the Bible, and
I always try to tease people to, especially if they already have a lot of children,
that when they're about to have a new child that they name them Gad,
because it means something specific. Let's turn to Genesis chapter
30 verse number 9, Genesis chapter 30 verse number 9, now of course you know
Jacob had two wives, he had Leah and he had
Rachel, and he got tricked into taking Leah as the wife
and that's not the wife he wanted, but you know, kind of
you reap what you sow, and Jacob tricked his dad
out of blessing him instead of his brother, and he also
tricked his brother out of the birthright, and he basically just waited
until he was so weak he was about to die, and he was like, bowl of soup for your birthright, and he was just like
you know, I'm going to die, what good is the birthright to me? So Jacob
kind of was a little bit of a sheisty guy, you know,
and so he basically ended up with Leah, and
then he ended up with Rachel, he had to work seven years for each of them, and then
they were given, he was given their handmaids
to wife, so they were concubines, they were wives but
not wives on the same level as the wives that were
you know, they were basically, they didn't have a choice in the matter, they were servants unto
Leah and Rachel, so
Leah is kind of in a competition with her sister to try to
have the most kids, and this is kind of I guess the drama
that takes place in Old Testament Israel, so
who can have the most kids? Who's going to be the most blessed, you know?
I guess there's worse games that you could play, but I mean it does get pretty nasty between them all
I mean they're fighting over mandrakes to see who's going to lie with Jacob that night
and stuff like that, so verse 9, the Bible says when Leah saw
that she had left bearing, so she's done having children,
she took Zilpah her maid and gave her Jacob to wife
does it say to wife? Yes, it says to wife, so she is a concubine but she's also
a wife, it says in Zilpah Leah's maid bared Jacob a son
and Leah said a troop cometh and she
called his name Gad, so Leah gets
to name the child because Zilpah was given
by her but still yet her servant
so she doesn't really get to control necessarily the situation here
so she calls him Gad
because a troop cometh, now the Bible helps us to interpret things
sometimes it'll say a name of someone
then it'll say why that person's called that and that's usually what their name is so
it says a troop cometh and she called his name Gad, so what does
Gad's name mean? A troop, so that's why I tease people
and say call the next one Gad because a troop is coming
so Gad means a troop or a troop
so the neat thing about Jacob's prophecy is that
they're dark and cryptic and hard to figure out what
exactly they mean but they're pretty cool at the same time
I think that's the cool thing about Jacob's prophecies here in Genesis 49
and you have some major players in the prophecies
the sons that go on to do great things, of course Judah
is the line of Christ and then you have
the Levites from Levi
and Benjamin, there's lots of tribes that are more
well known and Gad isn't really one of the more well known tribes
but I believe that the prophecy of Gad had been pretty much
fulfilled beside the resurrection and
him coming into his lot, of course we know that the children of Israel that were saved
are going to come into their lot just like Daniel's going to come into his lot
in the 1300 and whatever day
just like God told Daniel that
in the book of Daniel, what is it, 1336 days or something like that
I don't know the exact date, I forgot what it was, is that right? Does anybody know? Can I get a witness
of that? Anybody? Are you guys awake?
Are you dying here? You need a drink of water?
So anyhow, I won't depend on you for that
so I should know I'm the pastor, right? So anyway
so I believe that it's been pretty much
fulfilled, this prophecy, but
there is that time to come when they're going to get resurrected, they're going to come into their lot
and the fulfillments of these prophecies are going to be done
so Gad's not the most well known son
who knows anything about anybody in the tribe of Gad really?
Is there one person you can name, any man in here
is there any person in the Bible you can name that is one of the sons of Gad
that you know is a well known guy in the Bible? Anybody?
Yeah,
see what I mean?
But who knows, who can name somebody from Judah that's a famous guy in the Bible?
Anybody besides Jesus? Anybody?
Caleb? Anybody else?
Alright you guys are melted, you guys were out in the sun for too long. But anyway
you guys need some fat and some meat, right?
But Gad, I'm just trying to be interactive so you guys will wake up a little bit
but he had his small moments in the Bible where his
tribe is mentioned. Let's look at Deuteronomy 33 verse 20. Moses
is given some blessings and he mentions
Gad in his blessings towards the tribe in Deuteronomy 33
go ahead and turn to Deuteronomy 33 20
it says
Deuteronomy 33 20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad
he dwelleth as a lion and teareth the arm
with the crown of the head.
That's a pretty dubious
prophecy there. He dwelleth as a lion
and teareth the arm with the crown of his head. So the crown
of your head is what like right here or something? So he teareth the
arm. I mean at face value you don't really know
necessarily what that means do you? Now turn to Judges chapter 11
but we'll come back to that, okay? I'll connect that later on.
Judges chapter 11 verse 1. Like why are you preaching about this? Well
sometimes I just think that there's some cool things about Bible characters
and you know we can just dig in and find some interesting things about
the tribe. I'm specifically focusing on the prophecy of Gad
but I want to give some history about
him and maybe some cool aspects about the tribe. Look at Judges 11
1 it says, And Jephthah the Gileadite was
a mighty man of valor and he was the son of an harlot
and Gilead begat Jephthah. So Gilead
is the father of Jephthah. Who's heard
of the place called Gilead of the Bible? Well the place called
Gilead is named after a man named Gilead and
he begat Jephthah. Now Jephthah is very famous for being
a very powerful judge but he's also the son of a harlot so he's a
bastard isn't he? He's a bastard but he's also a mighty man of
valor so he's a tough you know valiant fighter
but he's also a bastard and
he also says a really dumb thing and he makes a
vow and his daughter ends up paying the price
because he says he'll sacrifice the first thing he sees if God will give him the victory
and he ends up having to sacrifice his own daughter which is of course
a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ but I mean not exactly something
that God asks people to do right? So look at verse 2 it says,
And Gilead's wife bare him sons, and his wife's
sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah and
said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit our father's
house, for thou art the son of a strange woman.
So now who
what tribe would he be from if he was the son
of Gilead? Well let's take a look at 1 Chronicles
chapter 5 take a look at 1 Chronicles chapter 5 verse 14
because the thing about Gilead
is that it's inherited not only by the Gadites but it's also
inherited by the tribe of Manasseh so you could be from the
town of Gilead and be from the tribe of Manasseh
so I don't want to get too complicated on you tonight here but
remember the name Gilead there's a man named Gilead
the town is named after him but
people inherited the land
from Gad and from Manasseh so you could be from the town
of Gilead and be
from the tribe of Manasseh or from the tribe of Gad. So look at what it says
though in verse 14, These are the children of Abbahel the son of
Hurri the son of Jeruah
should have spelled these out before Jeruah the son of Gilead
the son of Michael the son of Jesheshiah
the son of Jadoh the son of Buz. Ahi
the son of Abdiel the son of Guni the
chief of the house of their fathers and they dwelt in
Gilead in Bashan and in her towns and in all the
suburbs of Sharon upon their borders. So
Jephthah was a Gadite not
from Manasseh because
he's a son of Gilead and Gilead
is of the tribe of the Gadites.
It says in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagar
verse 10 I'm sorry go back up to verse 10 I'm sorry
in the same chapter though. It says in the days of Saul they made
war with the Hagarites who fell by their hand and they dwelt
in the tents throughout all the east land of Gilead and the children of
Gad dwelt over against them in the land of Bashan
and Salcha. Now skip to verse 8 go back to verse 18
in the same chapter it says the sons of Reuben and the Gadites
in the half tribe of Manasseh of valiant men
men able to bear buckler and sword to shoot with
bow and skillful in war were four
and forty thousand seven hundred and three score
that went out to war. So this is
fast forwarding you to a time when these Gadites
these valiant men were skillful
in war and able to bear buckler and sword
these are mighty men of valor and they made war with the Hagarites
and Jeter and Nefesh and
Zodab and they were
helped against them and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand
and all that were with them for they cried to God in the battle
and he was entreated of them because they put their trust in him. So the
Gadites and you know a lot of times they're mentioned with these other tribes because they were
close in proximity to them but they had
times when they had valiant men valiant warriors
men that loved God they put their trust, see right there it says they put
their trust in him. What does that mean? Well it means that they were saved doesn't it?
I mean if you put your trust in God does that mean you're saved? Of course it does
Look at verse 21 it says and they took their, took away their cattle
and their camels fifty thousand and of sheep
two hundred and fifty thousand of asses two thousand
and of men one hundred thousand. For there fell down
many slain because the war was of God and they dwelt
in their steads until the captivity. So this is kind of
you know just highlighting for us these men these Gadite men
that were pretty bossed they were pretty yoked
they were pretty valiant men and God because they trusted in God
he allowed them to take these men over and take away their places
where they were at and let the Gadites dwell in their place instead
of them. So now let's think
remember the prophecy in Deuteronomy 33 20 was
go ahead and turn to 1 Chronicles 12 8 the prophecy
in Deuteronomy 33 20 was and of Gad he
said blessed be he that enlargeth Gad he dwelleth as
a lion and teareth the arm with the crown of his head
look what the Bible says about them in
1 Chronicles 12 8 it says and of the Gadites there separated
themselves unto David into the hold of the wilderness
men of might men of war fit for the battle
that could handle shield and buckler whose faces
were like the faces of lions. So you see how that
goes with Deuteronomy 33 verse 20 it says that he dwelleth as a lion
and then here in 1 Chronicles 12 verse 8 it says whose faces
were as the faces of lions. I don't know what that means exactly
that their faces were the faces of lions maybe they had some pretty cool beards
you know I don't know I'm not saying they had long hair but maybe
they kind of looked lion like I don't know they had some pretty boss
beards but their faces it says like were the
faces of lions and they were swift as the rose upon the mountains. So these guys
are you know great men of God but the cool thing about it is that
God that the Gadites separated themselves
unto David remember David before he became the king of all Israel
he was hiding in different places because Saul was trying
to kill him but it says that they came unto him in the hold in the wilderness
and they came to bolster David
and to have his back because remember David just kind of started
building these armies he built his mighty men people came
to him from all over the place and you know David's might
grew and Saul waxed weaker and weaker and David grew in might
because God you know he was going to
bring David as the king eventually as
Saul lost everything. So these guys were
pretty you know lion like and their features
apparently as swift as rose they were able to
battle mighty men of value. Look at verse 9 it says
Ezer the first Obadiah the second Eliab the third
Mishmanah the fourth Jeremiah the fifth
Attai the sixth Eliel the seventh Johanan the eighth
Elzebad the ninth Jeremiah the tenth
Bani the eleventh these were of the sons of Gad
the captains of the host one of the least was over a hundred
and the greatest over a thousand. These are they
that went over Jordan the first month when it had over flown
all his banks and they put to flight
all them of the valleys both toward the east and toward
the west. So these are like David's you know aside from
David's mighty men these are like David's greatest warriors the Gadites
I mean who knew that before you know we started studying this
I mean maybe you'd read it in the Bible before I'm sure if you've read the Bible before you've probably read this
but when you kind of start to highlight things it's pretty cool that you see
they did have an influence in the kingdom of God they weren't just nobodies in the
kingdom of God we just don't really know so Jephthah
you probably didn't realize that Jephthah was one of the Gadites
you know he's the son of Gilead who was a Gadite
and so you know he was a great
warrior also made some mistakes just like all men do
a big mistake but he did he was a man of God
who loved the Lord obviously look at verse 37
it says and on the other side of Jordan of the
Reubenites and the Gadites of the half tribe of Manasseh with all manner
of instruments of the war for the battle and
20,000 all these men of war that could keep rank
came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king
over all Israel and all the rest also of Israel
were of one heart to make David king but notice
how it's talking about the Gadites specifically
they led the charge they were the first main tribe it seems
that came and said hey we're going to put our best guys
and David said hey you know what I'm going to make them captains of hundreds
I'm going to make them captains of thousands and even starts mentioning
the top ranked ones that he had leading his armies
and it says that they were all men of war
they could keep rank and came with a perfect heart to Hebron
that's some great men that you could count on isn't it
and you know just even being able to keep rank I mean there's a lot of battles
that led them to loss because men can't keep rank what is keeping rank
whether they can all be in the battle and know how to
listen to the commands and carry out the commands of the commanders
and the generals of the armies so now turn to 2 Samuel
chapter 23 verse 36 another
man of the tribe of Gad that was
you know he had a great name in the Bible
and in this chapter 2 Samuel chapter 23
it lists off for us David's mighty men
37 men that it mentions in this chapter here
and one of them is of the tribe of Gad
of the greatest fighting force that this world has ever seen
the greatest military force that the world's ever seen
and yeah they didn't have machine guns and things like that but some of these guys could kill
seven hundred people by themselves at one time and you know
they're ranked in these orders now he wasn't ranked in the top
three or the top five but look at verse 36 it says
Egal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Banai the Gadite
so Banai the Gadite was one of
David's mighty men so he probably came with this posse and
was the top of all that military force of the Gadites
and he became one of David's mighty men
now look at 2 Kings chapter 10 verse 32
2 Kings chapter 10 verse 32 the Bible says
in those days the Lord began to cut Israel short
and Hazel smote them in all the coast of Israel
so this is much further much deeper after David
it says from Jordan eastward all the land of Gilead
the Reubenites and the Manassehites from Arroyer
which is by the river Arnon even Gilead and
Bashan so as you go deeper
into the book of Kings you have less good kings and more
bad kings start to kind of pop up and
the ten tribes in the north they don't really have any great leadership
and they all pretty much go to the devil and then you have God
just smoking them and beating them down
and so you have this Syrian king here who was actually
he was ordained as the king I think by Elisha
and he began to cut he wasn't ordained by Elisha
but I think he killed the king he smothered him to death
I think Elisha looked at him
and he was like am I like a dead dog that I would do these things remember
do you know what I'm talking about and cause he said
I know what you're going to do because the king was sick
and the king was sick but the reason why he said the king was going to live but
in reality the king was going to die because he kills the king
he smothers him to death later on so the guy is pretty wicked
but God takes and uses wicked people to carry out his will
sometimes and that's what God does
he uses the more wicked nation to destroy a wicked nation and then someone else
to destroy that one but remember what the prophecy
was what was the prophecy a troop
shall overcome him but he shall overcome
at the end so Gad his name
means troop his name means a troop
so a troop is a great fighting force of men right
and so we see through the Bible here in all these different instances
where they are known for being men of war
there's instances of great mighty men of God that Gad
has put out as great men of God and so when Jacob uses
this prophecy and says a troop shall overcome him
he's being kind of you know he's using his name
in a mocking type of way
his name is a troop but really a troop is going to overcome him
but he shall overcome in the end so
now let's look at Joshua chapter 13 let's look at the bounds
of the tribe of Gad where do these guys
live because sometimes it's hard for us to know like where do the tribes of Israel live
and I don't even know that I could actually probably point out every single spot
where they live there's 12 tribes and if you're not really familiar
with the geography of the land it might be hard for you to
kind of pinpoint where everything is I don't know who kind of has a good
knowledge of what it looks like in the
holy land or the promised land anybody? You know you got the Sea of Galilee
well you probably can't see this
because I can barely see it but it kind of looks like this here
and this would be the Sea of Galilee up here this is where Jesus
lived right up here and down here you know the river Jordan comes down here
and goes into the Dead Sea and then you have all these different tribes
well Manasseh would be up here in this big giant chunk here
Gad underneath him and then of course again you have the Sea of Galilee
Galilee which is right here you have Asher and
good night I can't read that Neftali next door Dan just has this
little tiny circle here Zebulun's here that's where
Jesus lived after being born in Bethlehem you have Manasseh
right here then you have Ephraim they had a pretty good
sized area then the other spot that Dan had and then you
had Judah Simeon and Judah here
you had Reuben here Benjamin was right next to Judah
and let's see yeah so then
Edomites, Moabites here I don't know you probably can't see that but
Gad had a pretty good spot right here and remember they picked
the spot that was on the east side of Jordan
and they wanted to settle because they had a lot of cattle
and with Manasseh and Reuben on the
east side of Jordan remember Moses is the one that conquered
Sihon king of or Og king of Sihon
remember Og of Bashan that's the land that Manasseh, Gad
and Reuben all took over look at Joshua 13 24 it says
and Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad
even unto the children of Gad according to their families
and their coast was Jezer and I don't expect you know where all these places are
all the cities of Gilead and the half the land of the children
of Ammon unto Aror that is before
Rabbah and from Heshbon and unto
Ramoth Mizpah and
Betanim and Mahanim unto the border of
Deir and in the valley of Betharim and
Bethanimra and Succoth and Zaphon
and the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon
so it mentions that area there Jordan and his border
now look what it says there this is important even unto the
edge of the Sea of Chinnereth on the other side of Jordan
eastward that's important for the rest of this story
now Chinnereth is the Sea of Galilee
in the Old Testament it was called Chinnereth the Sea of Chinnereth but in the New Testament
it's called the Sea of Galilee so again
this is a very you probably can't see this from here but this is the Sea of Galilee
and so Gad is right here and its border comes
right to the tip of the bottom of the Sea of Galilee and then
comes down on the edge of the Jordan River so
it just has like a little tip of the sea shore right there
it's actually what we would call a lake in the United States
right so it just has that little tip and so
that's when it says there even unto the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth on the
other side of Jordan eastward so it's on the east side of Jordan
River and so that's why I wanted to show you
that map you can look at it after the service and see exactly what I'm talking
about you can probably actually flip to the back of your Bible
if you have a Bible that has maps in it you can probably look
and see maybe the Old Testament
view I don't know does anybody you guys have maps in your Bibles there
are you looking at them right now so you might be able to look at a better view
maybe of the 12 tribes and sometimes they
get where the locations are wrong so but if you have one
that butts up Gad at the very tip of the bottom of the Sea of Chinnereth
or the Sea of Galilee that's correct because that's what it says right
so then it says this is the inheritance of the children of Gad
after their families the cities and their villages
now look at back at 1 Chronicles
chapter number 5 go back to 1 Chronicles chapter number 5
now I know this has been a lot of like
homework style stuff and you're like
what is the point of all this we'll get there
1 Chronicles chapter 5 verse 23 the Bible says
and the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land
and they increased from Bashan unto Baal-Herman and
Senor and unto Mount Hermon and these were
the heads of the house of their fathers even Ephir
and Eshi and Eliel and Asriel
and Jeremiah and Hodoviah and Jadiel
mighty men of valor famous men and heads of the house
of their fathers and they transgressed against the god
of their fathers and went a whoring after the gods
of the people of the land whom God destroyed before them
this is what the children of Israel always end up doing and this is
unfortunately a lot of times what modern day Christians do
they might not be going after necessarily gods but they go after other things
instead of going after God and the god of Israel stirred up
the spirit of Pul king of Assyria and the
spirit of Tilgath-Pulisner king of Assyria and
he carried them away even the Reubenites and the
Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh and brought them unto
Hela and Hebor and Hera and to
the river Gozen unto this day
so this is and this is basically kind of the end
telling us what happens to all these tribes what happened to
all these tribes right here were taken away by the kingdom
of Assyria before the rest of the ten tribes got taken away
by the Assyrians they were kind of the first three tribes to go and
it's because what they went whoring after other gods
and God put an end to them and He took them away as He
saw fit right so what becomes of them well
Gad means a troop God
said a troop shall overcome them what ultimately happened to them well
a troop overcame them didn't it and they were taken away
they're overcome by the Assyrians and in the end
you know they're done the end
so where's the part where they overcome though where's the
part in the end where they overcome surely there must be a fulfilling of the prophecy
somewhere in the scriptures but where's it at
where does overcome in the end what
does overcome in the end even mean what does that mean well
if you're talking about a physical thing then physically
they're going to overcome in the end of course but
you know when they go back you know the save people because remember it mentioned
some of them trusted in the Lord some of them were great men of valor some of them came
to David they fought with him but eventually they were overcome
this tribe that the name originates
as a troop cometh the prophecy of Jacob
is that that tribe called the troop
would be overcome by a troop right we see
that happen here it's fulfilled in scripture right there now we
know in the New Testament when Paul came
did Paul know what tribe he was from he did he knew he was from the tribe of Benjamin
and then it mentions some people in the New Testament
you know and this was after the Babylonian captivity after the Assyrian
captivity some people did still know what tribe they were from
they did at that time didn't they there was people from Simeon
there was you know obviously we knew that Jesus came from Judah
and lots of different people you know there was still the Levites were still there
they still had their ancestry intact and all that stuff right
so we probably know that
other people came back to those areas now a lot of those areas
were taken over by the Gentiles and they were kind of Gentile lands
but there was still Jews that lived there there was still people
from the ten lost tribes that kind of filtered back into those areas
but you know to what extent we don't really know
but now we know that there you know there's probably
more you know ethnic Palestinians there
than there are actually Jews there but you know people would freak out
over you saying that so and they do
but so what does overcome mean well it means
to succeed in dealing with a problem or difficulty
it means to defeat an opponent or prevail
or of an emotion it means to overpower or
overwhelm but in the Bible it does have a specific
meaning we're going to come back to that but I just want you to think about that
as we move through this story so the assimilation of the lost tribes
into the Assyrian empire made them into a mixed people
and remember the Assyrians took them out of the land and brought Assyrians back in
they didn't know the manner of the god of the land and then he sent lions among
them and all that stuff right so but the
land they inherited and retained the name somewhat stayed the
same so when you know we go into the New Testament
the name of Gad still remains in the place
where that tribe was originally had that land
and at the time of Christ they are scattered but
the name is somewhat still interwoven with the people
that are still in that land so I'm sure some of the
Adites like I said made their way home at some point from Assyria
you know if not you know then why would their other
tribes know who they were they did know who they were some of them knew
but Jesus if you'll remember
what did he say who was he supposed to go to while he was here
who did he say he was going to was he going to the Gentiles
yeah in Matthew chapter 10 go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter
15 I'll just read from you Matthew chapter 10
Matthew chapter 10 verse 5 says these 12 Jesus sent forth
which is interesting that it's 12 because there's 12 tribes of Israel right
these 12 Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying
go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city
of the Samaritans enter ye not but go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel so if there
wasn't still lost sheep of the house of Israel
then how then you know they knew that some of them
were still around right and so who would the lost sheep of the house
of Israel be the 12 tribes right there were still
in existence at this time Matthew 15 24 says
but he answered and said I am not sent but unto the lost sheep
of the house of Israel this is who Jesus was trying to reach now did he
reach Gentiles yes he did you know they would just
insist on being saved which showed how great a faith they had
right so you know it's like it's not like Jesus didn't want to save people of course
he wanted to save people and he's like I haven't seen such great faith no not in Israel
so now turn to Mark chapter 5 Mark chapter
number 5 now this is the account
of the maniac of Gadara or of the
chains and there's three different tellings of this story in the
New Testament you have the story where it actually talks about two demon
possessed men it is the same story it's just
the two other accounts don't mention the second person for whatever reason
I don't know they just want to focus on the one person that's
actually speaking I guess but it's kind of a freaky
story and you know it's a very popular story a lot of
people even in pop culture it's known who Legion is
right and there's even like movies
called Legion there's whole you know
subcultures about this specific demonic presence here
look at Mark 5 one it says and they came over to the side of the sea
into the country of what does it say there
the Gadarenes so notice the first three letters right there what is
that word Gad right so there is some
semblance of the name there now why do I
think that they came into the same place where Gad once held
that place where that tribe once was well
because when you look at a map and you try to find where I just looked
last night and you can I forget what the other name of it is it's like
Knesserit but in the Old Testament or the New Testament
in the other where it has the two I think where it has the two
demoniacs in there it's called Geneserit right have you seen
that so today it's still called Knesserit
and it's in the exact spot on this
map right here that is right at the very tip
where Gad would have been so I don't
know call that what you will but that's where the Bible says the Gadites
lived and their border was right there so
now it says and they came over to the other side of the sea because if you go back to the last
chapter he says we got to go over to the other side of the sea so
when they get there it says so they go into the country of the
Gadarenes right and when he came out when he was come out
of the ship immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an
unclean spirit this guy is possessed with devils who had
his dwelling among the tombs and no man could bind him no not
with chains so this guy could not be bound with chains think about
that for a second chains are pretty strong you're not going to get out of
chains as a normal human being so it says
he could not be bound no man could bind him
so physically this man could not be bound
not with chains so he couldn't be bound with men
but he was bound wasn't he what was he bound by he was bound by devils
wasn't he was it one devil no the Bible tells us
it says because that he had been often bound with fetters
and chains by men right and the chains had been plucked
asunder by him it's like when Samson just like broke
things and it's like it was just nothing just like this guy
had supernatural strength because he had thousands
of demons in him so it says they've been plucked
asunder by him and the fetters broken in pieces
neither could any man tame him so mankind
at this point could not tame this man right here
and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying
not weeping like we would think crying like
you know what people do like in downtown areas when they're just like screeching in the middle of the street and walking
down the street for no reason
just wanted to wake you up
you've heard it
before haven't you I mean I've worked around it a lot and these screechers
just come out of nowhere there's like
you know exactly what I'm talking about
and isn't it weird how they just always want to walk in traffic
it's almost like you know because all the times when you see demons they're like
throwing people in the water throwing them in the like he'll often cast
himself in the fire they cast himself in the river it's almost
like they're trying to get these people that they possess to get ran over by cars
that's like the modern version of it right they always just walk out in the middle of traffic
they don't even look they're just like
and it's just like why are they doing that
because that demon wants to kill them that's why
and it's sad but it is freaky too
at the same time right so
but it says neither could any man tame him and always night and day he was in the mountains
in the tombs crying
not weeping and cutting himself with stones
now look this is demonic activity this is what demons when they possess people
like if you see people doing this kind of stuff they're probably possessed
right but 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 I adjure thee by God
that thou torment me not and he said unto him
come out of the man thou unclean spirit
and asked him what is thy name and he answered and said
my name is legion for we are many
so here's some word definition for you
he said my name is legion for we are many so he's defining
what he is it's not just one devil
it's many multiple devils
so now a legion in
terms like a legion of soldiers is about three to six thousand
roman soldiers at a time but this
isn't necessarily just you know this is a modern term
you know for the new testament to tell us that this is just a lot of
devils not necessarily a roman legion but it
could be meaning that but
now let's just keep that in mind though and look at verse ten
it says and he besought him much that he would not send him
out of the country and there was
there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding
and all the devils besought him saying send us into the swine that we may
enter into them and forthwith Jesus gave them
leave and the unclean spirits went out and entered into the
swine and the herd ran violently down a steep place
into the sea they were about two thousand
so this is probably the actual number of devils that were actually
in this man is two thousand that's what I'm guessing just because
it gives us that little parenthesis there and tells us how many pigs there were
so they're asking to go into the pigs they go into the pigs and they were
choked in the sea so again
pointing out the fact that Jesus cares a lot more about this one man
than he does about two thousand pigs and Peter wasn't there
to challenge him on this one so it says and they
fed the swine fled and told it in the city and in the country
and they went out to see what it was that was done
and they come to Jesus and see him that was possessed with
the devil and had the legion sitting
and clothed in his right mind and they were afraid
and they that saw it told them how
it befell to him that was possessed of the devil and also
concerning the swine and they began to pray
him to depart from their coast so they don't like Jesus
they're upset because
they're probably superstitious or I don't know they're afraid
instead of just saying hey save us too they're like hey get out of here we don't want you around here
you killed all of our pigs you know these are the people
that are mad about they care more about the pigs than they do about
people but it says and he was coming to the ship
he that had them possessed by the devil prayed him that he might
be with him so the guy that was possessed wants
to go with Jesus he wants to serve with Jesus how be it Jesus
suffered him not but sayeth unto him go home to thy friends
and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee
and hath had compassion on
thee so Jesus doesn't allow him to come with them and normally he allows
people to follow him and go with him but not this time he said you
need to go and tell other people about what
God's done for you and he departed and began to publish in Decapolis
how great things Jesus had done for him in all men
did marvel you're like well why are you telling this story
pastor well I want you I want who has smartphones right here
men that have smartphones google this term
legion synonym legion
synonym and raise your hand when you get there when it's pulled up on your
on your smartphone legion
synonym when you get there just raise your hand
alright Noah
what's just start reading them
what
stop right there what'd you say say that louder the last one what
say it louder troop troop troop okay
so a synonym
is this a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly
the same as another word or phrase in the same language for example
shut is a synonym of clothes shut
is a synonym of clothes a person or things so closely
associated with a particular quality or idea that the mention
of their name calls it to mind flamboyant
calls to mind fag right so
my point I'm making here I asked
him to read the synonyms and he said brigade and some other ones and he said what
troop so a synonym of legion is
troop so they mean the same thing don't they
so Jesus Christ comes he's like we need to cross right
here and go to this spot they go to the spot called
Gennesaret or it's also called
Gadara or you know that so like
it's exactly the place where the children of Gad used to live
and he says I'm not called but to the lost sheep
of the twelve tribes of Israel he goes specifically to that place that guy
comes running he has what's called a legion he has a spiritual
troop that has overcome him and taken over him
spiritually and then Jesus Christ
casts that devil out and sends them packing and this guy
is clothed in his right mind and then he
says hey go tell other people what the Lord's done for you
and so I believe and this is just you know maybe
just a wild theory of mine but I believe that this is
a prophecy fulfilled that Jacob was talking about
because where else do you see it in the Bible besides
you know of course them you know overcoming in the latter days of course
when they get their you know their plot of land and you know they get
you know their resurrected bodies and all that but I'm talking about
you know I mean you can't miss this once you see it you can't
unsee it in the same exact place I mean they go
they go in a boat to the place this guy
comes he's got a literal legion in him which means troop
I mean he's got a spiritual legion you know men can't
take he was they were taken you know the Gadites were taken out by men
and then this particular guy is taken on
by devils and the only person that can free him is the Lord Jesus Christ
so a troop shall overtake him but he shall overcome in the end
I believe that that's what it's talking about because if
that's true which I believe it is think about this
we'll go to Revelation let's define what overcome means in the Bible
that's what I want to do and then I'll have a couple things to apply and
then we'll be done so the Bible says in our in our in
our text today Gad a troop shall overcome
him but he shall overcome at the last and remember he said these are the
things that are going to happen in the last days
so Revelation 21 verse 6 says and he said unto me it is done I am
alpha and omega the beginning and the end I will give
unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life
freely he that overcometh shall inherit
all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son
you're like well what does that mean does that mean you have to
overcome all your sins you have to you know repent of all your sins what does
that mean exactly well turn to John 1 John chapter 5
verse 4 the Bible explains what that means
because John's the same writer of Revelation chapter 21
as 1 John chapter 5 verse 4 1 John chapter 5 verse 4 defines for us
what overcoming the world means it says for
whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world and this is the
victory that overcometh the world even our faith so what
helps what what is it that overcomes the world our faith
who is he that overcometh the world but he to believe it that
Jesus is the son of God so when this man
meets Jesus and he's the these devils are cast out of him
do you think this guy gets saved of course he does
he's like go tell people what great things and then everybody marvels
at the story and so in the end you know Jesus did find some Gadites
to get saved and those Gadites do overcome don't they
and he tells other people about them he goes home and tells his friends
he tells his family and these people you know and
you know we don't know where the Gadites are anymore but you know some
of them got saved Jacob's you know Jacob's prophecy
prophecy comes true just like the Bible says I mean
otherwise you know you tell me where where where else it comes true at
tell me where else it comes true because there's still things about
about Jesus's prophecy that from Jacob that have not happened yet
but they they're going to happen you know he's going to have a vesture
dipped in blood you know he's going to have the
flame you know the eyes as a flame of fire
we've seen that in Revelation you know we see we're going to see Jesus come
back not as you know peaceful Jesus but a man
of war he's going to come back and he's going to destroy the wicked
and he's going to set up his thousand year reign on this earth and we're going
to rule and reign with him for a thousand years
but what's really cool about that story is that
you know you just wouldn't think sometimes you just have to dive deep
into the Bible and like I don't I think God just kind of just gave
this to me one time when I was this isn't the first time I've taught
about this but it is it's just such a cool truth in
the Bible it's a cool story and I'm not saying
that the maniac of Gadara is the only fulfillment of
Jacob's prophecy I think that there is other men of Gad that are
you know saved they overcame I get that but in the end times
like I'm talking about the New Testament
where do you see that happening that's the only story that I can think of
in the New Testament where that happens so
the spiritual picture of a man that's trapped in literal
with literal devils a troop of devils no man binding him only the son of God
can save him and free him and that's the truth about anybody
only the son of God can set us free from the spiritual darkness
that we're in and just a little application for us
to dig deep into scriptures love the Bible
you don't have to be some theologian or a pastor
to draw out these types of truth you just have to study and read
the word of God and he'll show you great truths you know it's
the more you read the more you're going to see
the more layers you're going to uncover and
there's more than one interpretation of scripture in a lot of cases and
multiple layers of truth so you can draw a lot of things out
of one scripture the Bible is truly a living document
it's the only living document that we have it's not the Constitution
it's not the bill of rights it's not you know
any other document besides the Bible the Bible is the one that's actually
alive it's self-evident every time you pick it up
with the intent that you're going to find something
in God's eternal word I'll just I'll just leave you with this one last
scripture in Psalm chapter 119 verse 18 it says
open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law if you
have that mentality every time you go to the Bible
instead of just treating it like it's a chore that you have to check off
every time if you just look at the Bible and
before you start to read just say Lord open my eyes that I may behold
wondrous things out of thy law God's going to show you
great and mighty things but you know God knows whether you love his law
he knows whether you're ready to step into another
lot you know into another layer of the Bible that you don't know yet
he wants you to learn the stuff you need to know now
and then the cool stuff you find later you know
so he's going to let you see things as he deems fit
not as you know we're digging for it sometimes you just see stuff and you're
just like wow that's really cool but that's just how deep the Bible can
be and it's a great book and we should just love it we're
Bible believers Baptist church here amen
we should believe the Bible we should love it and let's bow our heads
and have a word of prayer heavenly father we thank you lord so much for this
great church I pray that you'd help this church as we
go forward in another year and lord that
you would help us to love the Bible to love prayer to love
souls to love coming to church and lord that
you just help this church to grow help it to
grow spiritually and not just monetarily not
voluntarily or numerically but spiritually more importantly we'd
have great people that would come and make this church a
great church and lord we thank you for all the
faithful people here today and going out in the hot weather
pray that you just once again bless brother robert miss bella
and protect them and guide them as they go home everybody as we go home
tonight and jesus then we pray amen
amen great great sermon pastor thank you for that
page 470 will be our last song this evening before we head
all head home page 470 jesus is all the world to me
page 470
jesus is all the world to me on the first
jesus is all the world to me my life
my joy my all he is my strength from day
to day without him i would fall
when i am sad to him i'll go no other
one can cheer me so when i am sad
he makes me glad he's my friend
jesus is all the world to me
my friend in trials or
i go to him for blessings and he gives
them more and more
he sends the sunshine and the rain he
sends the harvest golden grain sunshine
and rain harvest of grain he's
my friend jesus is all the world to me
and true to him i'll be
oh how could i this friendly night when he's so
true to me
following him i know i'm right he watches
or me day and night following him
by day and night he's my friend
on the last jesus is all the world to me
i want no better friend
i trust him now i'll trust him when life's fleeting
day shall end beautiful life with such a friend
beautiful life that has no end eternal
life eternal joy he's my friend
amen thank you for visiting this weekend and coming to hear our pastor
preach for us thank you pastor for everything
setting up the soul winning times and keeping us lodged
and getting all the food and thank you for the sermons as well we really
appreciate everything that you do for us
um i guess let's end with the word of prayer
dear heavenly father thank you for bible believers baptist church
and i pray lord that you would um just send us forth
into your harvest back home and edified from this weekend
and that you would just bless us as we go our ways
and keep us safe as we travel back to our homes
and that you would just uh keep your hand over this church and the people
here in yakima and continue to bless the ministry
here all the men and women who are serving in jesus name i pray amen