🎵Music🎵
Good evening everybody. Let's all stand and grab our hymnals and turn to page
four hundred and ninety five.
Page four nine five. Since Jesus came into my heart.
Page four hundred and ninety five.
Page four nine five. Let's sing it out on verse number one.
What a wonderful change and my life has been wrought
since Jesus came into my heart.
I have lied in my soul for which long I had sought
since Jesus came into my heart.
Since Jesus came into my heart.
Floods of joy o'er my soul like the sea billows roll.
Since Jesus came into my heart.
Now on verse number four.
I shall go there to dwell in that city I know
since Jesus came into my heart.
And I'm happy so happy as onward I go
since Jesus came into my heart.
Since Jesus came into my heart.
Floods of joy o'er my soul like the sea billows roll.
Since Jesus came into my heart.
Hey, God bless you. Thanks for being here tonight.
I'm certainly glad that you're here.
And it's good last night and it's been good all week.
So you listen very carefully and may God bless you today.
Let's bow heads in prayer.
Father, thank you for, Lord, the word of God.
Thank you, Father, that it's clear.
I pray, Lord, that we would have an open mind, open heart.
Pray that you speak to us.
Thank you, brother, for giving his time to come here this week.
Pray that you bless the teaching Lord tonight in Jesus' name.
And amen.
Any of the preachers slipped in since last night?
Your pastor full-time Christian work.
If you'll stand, please introduce yourself.
Anybody, if you would.
Preacher right here, if you would.
Thank you, my brother.
So good to see you again.
Wonderful.
Anybody else?
All righty.
Good.
Okay, brother.
You come on, man.
You're on right away.
Amen.
Good to be saved.
Amen.
Good to be in church.
Amen.
Good to see me.
Amen.
Okay, by this time tomorrow, Stephen Anderson will make a video of me saying that and
say something about it.
I am blessed.
And I'll tell you why I am blessed.
You know, let me tell you what you guys got to do.
All of you, all of us, get rid of your pride.
By pride cometh contention.
I am not sure that pride isn't the worst sin that there is because pride is what keeps
the lost man from getting saved.
Pride is what keeps a Christian from getting right.
Pride is what keeps somebody from saying, you're right, I'm wrong, isn't that true?
And I got a lot of problems.
I don't have a pride problem.
And that helps me.
Because then when somebody lies about me, I don't take it personal.
Some time ago, some guy lied about me, I'll tell you about it tomorrow night.
Some guy lied about me and I just, you know, I just, here's what a lie is.
I tell people a lie is a four-step process.
Somebody hates you.
They want to say something bad about you that is true.
They checked you out real good and can't find anything bad that's true.
So they made something up.
So if somebody lies about you, that's an honor.
They have actually, when somebody lies about you, they are actually confirming your honesty
and your purity.
And so, I guess Steven Anderson, I just saw for the thing, Stevie, keep watching,
we'll get you something tomorrow night.
Watch tomorrow night.
He put a thing on me and he's got a rapper and he's got me doing rap.
Think about this.
I've been here Sunday morning, Sunday night, Monday night, and he hasn't refuted
one scripture.
Now, there's two reasons why he hasn't done it.
Number one, it can't be refuted.
Number two, he doesn't do his own work.
He is in somebody's pocket.
I'll talk to you about that tomorrow night.
He's just a little boy.
He's a puppet.
They'll bring something out, try to refute scripture, in about a week when whoever his
masters are, they have the chain around his neck.
When they give him the stuff and say, hey boy, go say this in front of the camera,
he'll obey his masters and he'll say something.
But all they can do is put something to make me look bad.
Guys, look at this.
How can you make this look worse?
I told you, no pride.
He had a thing on here when he heard us come and he says, you know, Giff isn't very
intelligent.
I never said I was, but I'm smarter than a 12 year old.
And he's 12 years old.
Okay.
And I'll prove that tomorrow night.
Uh, tomorrow night, you know, guys notice this.
I have not, I've mentioned him.
I have not attacked him.
And like people say, well, you're not being very nice to him.
Well, he's not being very nice to me.
I never said he's going to hell.
Isn't that the worst thing you can say about somebody?
He didn't say I deserve hell.
I'll tell you I deserve hell.
So do you.
There's a person on this planet that doesn't deserve hell.
Okay.
But, um, when, when somebody's got grace with him and not with me, I know they don't
have grace when they defend him, but they won't defend the Bible.
He doesn't have, they don't have grace.
Nope.
Don't get sick.
Well, you just need to have some more grace.
Yeah.
That's kind of like, uh, did you ever hear how the, how the, how the, uh, Congress,
the Democrats always go, well, you Republicans, you just need to learn to compromise
a little.
You ever noticed Democrats never compromise.
All right.
Let me tell you tonight, um, uh, about the nation of Israel, uh, and, uh, and is God
done with Israel?
And give you the, I'll give you the answer now, if you want to leave, no, then that
saved you some time.
Um, but he is not done with Israel.
Uh, and there are some, there are going to be a lot of scripture.
Now in a little while, we'll have some guys pass this stuff out because these are
some scripture references.
What these sheets are is they are, uh, just a bunch of references in the Bible.
And we're just going to keep you from having to go back and forth and back and forth
and back and forth.
You'll have, and you can take the sheets home, uh, with you.
But one of the things about, uh, about Israel, uh, when you study Israel, you got
to understand the difference between, between covenants.
And there's two kinds of covenants in the Bible.
There's conditional covenants
and unconditional.
Now, if you just said, all God's covenants are unconditional, that's because you never
read your Bible.
And you think if you beat your chest loud enough, that makes a difference.
Okay.
You know, guys, the loud, the more, the more fearful somebody is, the louder they
yell.
The more scared they are, the more, the more they bellow.
But there are conditional covenants and there are, there are unconditional
covenants.
Uh, and we need to take a look at them.
Uh, go to, uh, first Kings chapter nine.
Do you know what a, do you know what a conditional covenant is?
Oh, you guys all know what a conditional covenant is.
How many of you have a job?
That's conditional covenant, doesn't really, isn't this basically
what your employer says?
If you will do this, I will give you this.
Okay.
So here's a guy, here's this guy, he's got money and some 20 year old kid gets
done mowing his grass and he walks up to him and the guy pulls out his wallet and
gives him money.
What is that?
You do the grass.
I give him money.
Then another 20 year old kid doesn't do a thing.
And he walks over and gives him money.
So why do you do that?
Because that's his son.
Son don't have to have it, right?
So keep that in mind, uh, in, um, uh, in, uh, first Kings chapter nine, this is
where the Lord is talking to Solomon and the big word, whatever you see, here's
how you can identify a conditional covenant.
If then, if then, if then, if you'll mow my grass, then I'll pay you.
If you'll paint my house, then I'll pay you.
If you'll work five days a week in the auto plant, then I'll pay you.
That's a conditional covenant.
You don't show up.
You don't have a job.
Look what he says to Solomon verse four.
And if there it is, if thou wilt walk before me as David, thy father walked in the integrity
of heart and in unrighteousness, uprighteousness, uh, to do according as to all that I
have commanded thee and will keep my statutes and my judgments.
Here's the second half of it.
I will establish thy throne over the, uh, of the, the, the throne of thy kingdom upon
Israel forever.
As I promised to David, thy father saying there shall not fail thee a man upon the throne
of Israel.
So, so Solomon had a conditional covenant, right?
Now here's an amazing thing about Solomon.
Solomon is, uh, Solomon is here because of God's unconditional covenant with his father,
David.
You'll see that in a minute.
There's an unconditional covenant.
You say, well then how could, how could God have a conditional covenant, uh, an unconditional
saying you're going to have a man always on the throne.
And yet, uh, Solomon didn't keep his covenant.
Solomon did not keep his covenant and Solomon doesn't get to keep a man on the throne.
Now let me ask you a question.
Who is the most famous?
And this is not a trick.
This is simple.
Who is the most famous son of David?
Solomon.
There is no doubt about it.
I have a, I have a message called the most important.
Keep that word in mind.
Not, not, not, not famous, but important.
I got a message called the most important son of David.
And then I go through here and I can't remember, I don't have the outline with me, but there
are, there are scores of scripture that refer to Solomon, Solomon, Solomon, Solomon,
because he is the most famous.
He is not the most important.
You know why?
Because his line comes through Joseph and dead ends.
But Solomon's son, Nathan, the line goes through him to Mary.
So he's the most important.
And that's why Solomon, he, he gets on the throne, but his, he didn't keep that
covenant.
So it won't be a son of Solomon that always sits on a throne.
It'll be, but it will be a son of David.
So that is a conditional covenant.
God says, Solomon, if you will do this, then I will do this.
Now you guys know what the Davidic covenant is?
The Davidic covenant is an amazing thing.
God says to David, I'm going to build you a house.
I'm going to give you somebody on the throne.
He says, I'll give you sure mercies, the sure mercies of David.
Isn't that true?
David has a very unique standing because he was a man after God's own heart, right?
Anybody else ever get that covenant?
You think of anybody else in the Bible that God said, I'll do for you what I did for
David, because there's another man.
There's another man that God said, now think about this.
I will do for you what I did for David.
So, oh, come on.
How can that be?
I'll, I'll show it to you.
Look at chapter 11, first Kings chapter 11 and a first Kings chapter 11.
And look at verse 38, you know who he's talking to?
He's talking to Jerobo.
Now let me help some of you, because guys, I don't like, I don't like Muslims hating
my country.
I don't like Democrats hating my country.
And I don't like Bible believers hating my country.
And you get some Bible believers, you know, it's like, it's like they believe the same
thing that the Muslims believe, America's the great Satan, and they won't be happy
until it falls.
You know, in case you guys don't know this, this is the boat we're on.
You know, if I had been on the Titanic and I heard that statement, even God couldn't
sink this ship, and it was starting to go down, contrary to the will of God, I'd
be bailing.
You say, why?
Because I'm on that boat, okay?
But I've heard these guys will say this, Bible believers will go, well, this country
started with a rebellion.
God never institutes or blesses a rebellion.
That is a wonderful statement, as long as you don't read your Bible.
Look at chapter 12, 1 Kings chapter 12, here's what the Lord says, he abides with the
man of God, stops Jeroboam, and he said, I'm going to split this kingdom.
That's the day that they all became Baptists.
And he said, I'm going to split this kingdom, and he said, I'm going to give you 10 tribes,
and I'm going to give the house of David, Jeroboam, I'm going to give him 2 tribes.
That wasn't a rebellion, really?
Then read your Bible, look what it says, 1 Kings chapter 12, verse 19.
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
Your Bible says it was a rebellion, and it was a rebellion instituted by God, initiated
by God.
Don't feel too bad about that, because he also has a record for breaking people out
of jail.
Which I tell folks, that encourages me for my future.
So here's Jeroboam, and he says, Abijah says, now look, Jeroboam is not doing right,
I'm going to split this kingdom, I'm going to give him 2 tribes, and you're going to
get 10.
But look at the promise that he gives to Jeroboam, look at verse 38.
And it shall be, there it is, if, that's conditional, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command
thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that that is right in my sight, to keep
my statutes and my commandments, as David thy servant, as David my servant did, that
I will be with thee, that's the then, and build thee a sure house, as I built
for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
Did he just not give him the same promise he gave David?
Can you imagine, that's only 2 people in the history of the world that God ever made
that promise to, and only one of them lived up to it.
Because this guy no sooner takes office than he goes, oh man, I got 10 tribes, but
Rehoboam's got Jerusalem, and my people are Jews, and they're going to go down
to Jerusalem, they're going to worship, and then those guys down there are going
to go, why don't you guys get back together, and they're going to kill me.
So he said, I've got to give them someplace to worship.
So he went to Dan and Bethel, and he put up a golden calf, 2 golden calves for Israel,
and said, Israel, worship here.
I told you, Kathy and I were in Israel in September, I think, September of 2014, and
up in Dan, not in Bethel, but in Dan, the complex is still there, that he built.
It's just walls, just basically like the foundation, like he knocked the house down,
you can see where everything was.
The pedestal, where that golden calf was, that Rehoboam built, is still there.
So it was an if, but it didn't come to pass, because he didn't keep the conditions
of the covenant.
So guys, God has conditional covenants with some people.
Then he has unconditional covenants.
Take a look at 2 Samuel chapter 2.
In 2 Samuel chapter 2, or I'm sorry, chapter 7, 2 Samuel chapter 7.
Look what it says in verse 4.
And it came to pass that night that the word of the Lord came unto Nathan, saying, Go
and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shall thou build me a house for me
to dwell in?
You know, here's what's happened, David says, you know what I'm going to do?
God's living in a tent.
I'm going to live in a nice house, God's living in a tent, I'm going to build a house
for him.
And what God comes back with is, you know, I never asked anybody to do that.
I've always been dwelling in tents.
You're going to do this for me?
And it was just an amazing thing.
Some things I told the students this morning, you know what you ought to do?
You ought to do something for God.
Do you know I can reduce your prayer life to four words?
Most of your prayers I can reduce to these four words.
Tell me if this doesn't describe most of your prayers.
Lord, change my circumstances.
Change my financial circumstances, my health circumstances, my legal circumstances, my marriage
circumstances.
But isn't that really...
I know you're so old a preacher.
I'm going to give you an hour and a half and I cry, but that's all you said.
We always go to God.
We really don't want to talk to God.
We want to talk to Santa Claus or a good banker, right?
God give me this.
I wish you would give this to me.
What did you ever give him?
Don't please don't go, �I gave him me.� No wonder he's mad at you.
But the fact is, guys, really, have you ever given him anything?
You know, somebody is doing something here.
It might be sin.
It might be not.
It just isn't what a Christian ought to do.
Wouldn't it be nice if you went to the Lord and said, �You know, Lord, I'm going
to quit doing that.
I'm going to do that just for you.� I was telling him this morning, �I don't
know for sure.
I'm not trying to...� I got a question.
I will never, I'm never seeking the answer to this question.
I got saved in 1970, June 1970, and I quit drinking.
I was in a bar every night before I got saved.
After I got saved, I went back to the bar two times.
First time, I was telling my friends I got saved, didn't have a drink.
Second time, I was telling them I got called to preach.
You talk about putting a chill on a meat and that will do it.
And that was it.
And here's my statement.
Maybe I still like the taste of beer.
I don't know.
Because I didn't quit because I didn't like the taste.
It was a gift.
After what he gave me, I said, �You know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to change my jokes.
I'm going to change my language.
I'm going to change my hairstyle.
He even changed it more.
I'm going to change how I live.
I'm going to change how I dress.
I'm going to change my entertainment.
I'm going to quit my drinking.� You understand?
Have you given him anything?
And let's face it guys.
I mean give him something that you want.
You know when I was a Catholic and they'd have this thing called lint?
That's what you pick out of your navel.
You know what I used to give up every year for lint when I was a Catholic?
Peas.
Now I could have expanded to liver.
Yeah I'm hearing nothing about peas brother.
I was telling somebody the other day, I said, �I don't like peas.�
Somebody said, �You ever taste them?�
I said, �I have smelled them.
And my nose has told my stomach horror stories about peas.
And my stomach has believed every word my nose told them.�
But I'd give up peas.
Well, that was easy to give up.
Never liked them anyway.
Guys, what did you do?
You give up something you didn't care about anyway?
Wouldn't it be nice if you said, �Lord, let me do this for you.
Let me give this up.�
You could do something for God.
You could give him something one of two ways.
There's something in your life that you ought to just say, �Lord, I really like
that music.�
You ever hear these Christian theme parks?
They call them contemporary churches.
And they play rock Christian music.
And I've had guys say this, that rock music, I say, �Well, you listen to that Jesus
rock music.�
But I like that kind of music.
Can I ask you a question?
Here's what I asked those guys.
Who said you should be listening to music you like?
Guys, there's a lot of stuff you like that isn't good.
So you're going to sanctify what you like.
So maybe some of you just need to get rid of some CDs.
Maybe you just need to tell the Lord, �Lord, I'm going to get rid of this.
Maybe I got liberty to do this.
I think I'll just surrender my liberty to try to give you a gift.�
Or in this case, he gave him something positive.
Maybe you could give God something.
Maybe some advances come through and you could really bless him in some large financial
way.
I don't know.
But David says, �I'm going to build a house for God.�
Man, isn't that amazing?
No wonder he's a man after God's own heart.
I tell folks, I say, �We haven't had a house in 31 years.
If I get a mansion, if I have a mansion over the hilltop, if I got a mansion, you're
going to see me walking around the outside looking at it.�
Say, �What are you doing?�
�Making sure there's no wheels.
We've been on wheels for 31 years, we'll make sure there's no wheels.�
So look what it says.
Verse 5, �Go tell my servant David, �Thus saith the Lord, �Shall thou build me
a house for me to dwell in?�
Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of
Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel, spake I a word
with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, Israel, saying,
�Why built ye not me a house of cedar?� Now therefore, so shalt thou say unto my
servant David, �Thus saith the Lord of hosts, �I took thee from the sheepcoat,
from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel, and I was with
thee, whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy
sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men of
all that are in the earth.� Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel,
and will plant them, and they shall dwell in a place of their own, and move no more,
and neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as before time.
That has to be prophetic.
Is Israel in a place right now?
Are they dwelling safely?
Are there people that are afflicting them right now?
Then those two halves have not come true.
He has put them in the land, but they are not dwelling safely, and there are people
afflicting them, then this verse has not yet been fulfilled.
If God is replacing Israel, He is not keeping that word.
Verse 11.
�And since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and caused
thee to rest from all thine enemies, also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee
in house.
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy
seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his
kingdom.
Question, did anybody see in anything that I just read the word �if�?
There is no �if�.
He said, �I�m going to do this for you,� right?
Do you know what that is?
That is an unconditional covenant.
Verse 14.
I will be his father, and he shall be my son.
If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes
of the children of men, but my mercy shall not depart away from
him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee, thy throne
shall be established forever.
So the Davidic Covenant is an unconditional covenant.
God said, He doesn�t say, �If you�ll do this, I�ll do this.� He said, �I�m
going to do this.
I�m going to do this for you.�
Now that brings us to another covenant.
And this is the one that we�re talking about tonight, the Abrahamic Covenant.
Look at Genesis chapter 12.
Look what the Lord says.
Verse 1.
Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,
and from thy father�s house, unto a land that I will show thee.
Now you say, �Well that�s an if, isn�t it?� No, He�s telling them to get out
of there.
A condition is throughout the covenant.
In other words, when you get hired and you go to work for a week, you get paid
for a week, right?
But if next week you don�t go, you don�t get paid.
You have to continually fulfill your side of the covenant.
So a conditional covenant is, whoever God makes that covenant with, they have to keep
doing this, then God will do this.
Remember He told them to get out of the land and go down there, but He didn�t say,
�If, there�s no if.� He said, �Go on down and do this.� Look at verse
2.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name
great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee, and in thee
shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
There is no condition to that covenant.
God just says, Abraham, here�s what I�m going to do.
By the way, did you notice that we are in the Abrahamic covenant?
Say how?
�Be good to the Jew, and God is good to you.�
Yeah, I love these people.
These guys, they get spectacular reactionary.
You ever have anybody say this, �But the Jews run the banks.� I had a guy call
me one time, and he was reading my newsletter, one of my essays or something, and he goes,
�I like your letters.� I said, �Okay, good.�
And I�m like, �Good, usually I know there�s �but�.� And he goes, �But,� I thought
that was coming.
And he goes, �But, you know, you talk about Israel like they�re good.�
I said, �Well, they�re God�s chosen people.� I�m going to say this again.
I do not believe that Israel was God�s chosen people.
I believe they still are.
Now, Steven Anderson, when he takes the soundbite out of that, he�ll take me out
saying, �I don�t believe Israel was God�s chosen people,� and then he�ll have
me saying that.
But that�s okay, because he�s dishonest.
And if you have to be dishonest, that shows that what you�re teaching is not honest
and is not real.
So the fact that the guy is playing video games with me doesn�t bother me at all.
It honors me.
You know, every time you see him making fun of me, you know, just say this, �Look,
Anderson can�t answer the Scripture again.� And so, anyway, I get this.
I said, �They�re God�s chosen people,� and he goes, �They run the banks!�
I said, �Yes, they do!� I said, �That�s the way God plans it!�
�Hey, if you don�t like Jews running the banks, I�m with you.
Let�s take them Jews away from them.
Let�s take them banks away from them Jews.
Let�s give those banks to the Catholic Church.� I bet they�ll be fair and square.
�No, you guys act like you don�t trust the Catholic Church.� Okay, then you�re
such bigots.
Let�s just give it, �Let the Muslims run the church.� We saw what happened
when the Hindus ran the motels if they ran the banks.
And so, guys, think about this, I had somebody here say this, �The Jews run Hollywood!�
To which I say, �Yes, they do!� And they do the worst job in the world.
You know what people are?
Traditionally, everybody is their own little self-promoter.
That�s what Facebook has done.
People get to show how wonderful they are.
Their favorite hymn is, �How great I am, how great I am!� And you promote yourself.
So the Jews run Hollywood.
Now, would somebody explain to me if the Jews have been run Hollywood from day one?
And they have.
That the religion that they exalt isn�t Judaism, it�s Roman Catholicism.
Why did you have, who was it, Bing Crosby?
Pat O�Brien?
Do you remember all the guys that played some kind of a Catholic priest, some heart-wrenching
Roman Catholic?
Why didn�t the Jews make the guy that everybody loved a rabbi?
Wouldn�t it have been to their advantage to make people like Jews?
Maybe no one will kill them.
And so, yeah, they run Hollywood, they just didn�t do a very good job of it because
when they got done with Hollywood, everybody thought we were a Catholic country.
So if you want your country blessed, let them run it.
That�s what he said.
He said, �All the nations of the earth will be blessed through you.� And you
know our history, that where we bless Israel, God blesses us.
So this Abrahamic Covenant, God says, �If you do this, that�s it.� Or He didn�t
say that.
If the Abrahamic Covenant, He said, �I am going to bless you.� And that�s
it.
There�s no condition on that.
Now, what happens to this Covenant?
Look at chapter 17.
Obviously Abraham has got to pass off the scene.
And the Covenant�s got to go to somebody.
And it goes to Isaac.
You say, �How do you know?
I read my Bible.� Now, you know the story.
You know how Abraham had Isaac, his wife said, �Going under my handmaid Hagar and
have a child because I can�t have a child?� And so he has Isaac.
And the Lord, He�s not going to bless Isaac, or Ishmael, He has Ishmael.
And He�s not going to bless Ishmael.
And look what Abraham says in verse 18.
Chapter 17, verse 18.
He is 99 and she�s 90, and Abraham said unto God, verse 18, �Oh, that Ishmael would
live before thee.� He�s saying, �I wish you would take this covenant you�ve
given me.
I wish you would acknowledge Ishmael as my son.
I wish you would give this covenant and pass it on to Ishmael.� Look what the
Lord says.
And God said, �Sarah thy wife shall bear a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name
Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with
his seed after him.
As for Ishmael, I have heard thee, behold, I have blessed him, and I will make him
fruitful, and he will multiply him exceedingly, and he will cut off a lot of people�s
head.
Oh, oh, and I will make him a great nation, look at verse 21, �But my covenant will
I establish.� Does anybody see an �if�?
Does anybody see an �if then?� No.
Because this is an unconditional covenant.
�But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at
this set time in the year.� So that covenant goes from Abraham to Isaac.
Now there�s something you better pay close attention to.
There is a word there in verse 19 that really, really interests you.
Your salvation hangs on this word.
Look at verse 19, �But God said, �Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed,
and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for
a what?� �For God so loved the world, and gave
his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should have everlasting life.�
He gave you everlasting life.
He gave Israel an everlasting covenant.
If God takes that covenant away from them, then what makes you think your everlasting
covenant is any good?
Did you ever stop and think about this?
Our salvation is an unconditional covenant.
Oh yeah, you have to pray.
But it�s not this.
If you�ll pray and then keep the Ten Commandments and get baptized and speak
in tongues and do this and try to be good all your life, then I�ll do this.
There�s no conditions other than asking for eternal life, right?
We have an unconditional everlasting covenant with God.
Now, you say, �Well, it�s still an everlasting covenant.
God just took it away from them and gave it to us as New Testament Jews.�
Really?
OK, then, can�t he take your everlasting life away from you and give it to somebody
else?
If he can do it with them, if that�s the precedent, don�t tell him he can�t
do it with you.
You know, we�ve been on the road for 31 years.
One of the things we always, always, always have with us, we�ll only need him two times,
fire extinguisher.
Oh man, when you live on the road, you�re going to keep a fire extinguisher.
First time I used my fire extinguisher, it wasn�t even for me.
It was for some trucker.
I walked out, pulled into this parking lot there in front of his trucks on fire, grabbed
my fire extinguisher, went out there and hosed it down.
You know what I did?
The very next day, I bought a fire extinguisher.
The second time, my truck caught fire.
You say, I walked out of this office, I pulled into this RV park, and it was kind of a circular
driveway.
I pulled up, walked in there, and got settled in.
As I walked out, I can�t even see my truck, but behind my RV, I see black smoke
going up.
I go, why is my RV smoking?
I walked around there, the front tires on my pickup truck were on fire.
And you say, well, you got a fire extinguisher.
You better believe I do.
And I don�t trust that fire extinguisher any farther than I can throw it.
I can probably throw it away.
I trust the Lord.
And when I saw that fire, you know what I said?
I said, God, I got a fire extinguisher, but that don�t mean� I mean, instantaneously
I said, God, if I�ve got a fire extinguisher, that doesn�t mean I�m going to be
able to put this fire out.
And if I don�t put this fire out, this whole rig has gone up.
So I said, it�s not the fire extinguisher that I�m trusting, it is you that
I�m trusting.
And I ran, I grabbed that fire extinguisher, and I put that fire out.
And while I was doing it, what I was trying to figure out was how to pull the pin, drop
the chains, and yank that RV out from underneath that truck if I had to.
But guys always had a fire extinguisher.
Now think about this.
If you have everlasting life, do you have it?
Okay, think about this.
You never used it.
It's like a fire extinguisher you never used.
You're still running on what you got when the doctor held you upside down and slapped
you on the backside.
You won�t use your everlasting life until you breathe your last, isn�t that true?
So isn�t that amazing?
Some of you have been saved over 40 years.
Okay, you�ve been saved over 40 years, would it be something if God took it away
now?
It's like you have this fire extinguisher for 40 years and never use it, and one day
somebody says, yeah, you don�t need this anymore, we�re taking it to somebody
else.
Guys, it�s nice to have everlasting life, but we�re going to use it when we die.
So this is an everlasting covenant.
If the word everlasting, the covenant with Israel, if the covenant with Israel, with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, if that covenant, that�s not with New Testament Christians
who became Jews somehow, if that covenant, if everlasting does not mean everlasting,
then you can�t prove that everlasting means everlasting about your eternal life.
So the covenant unconditionally goes from Abraham to Isaac.
Who�s next?
Now you know the things I tell guys, I told them this morning, and I know this is
going to sound simplistic, but I believe truth is simple.
Play fair.
Don�t cheat.
You know, you kind of hedge your bet, you cheat, you find some way to cheat.
Take a look at Genesis chapter 27.
Now in Genesis chapter 27, here�s what Isaac says.
Isaac says to Esau, I want you to go kill me some venison.
Go kill me some venison and feed me.
You do that, I will bless you.
Now some of you might be saying, see, he�s going to give away the Abrahamic covenant
to the wrong son.
Mind your own business.
Who are you?
Just let the man alone.
He wants to bless his son.
Now I do point this out.
You know the Bible says that what Jacob did is he killed a lamb and then they, you
know, your pastor here, he goes out and shoots him and guts him immediately.
Could you imagine, you just killed this lamb and you skin it and take the skins and slap
them on your arm.
That is gross to me.
But that�s what, can you imagine Jacob going, eww, eww.
And it really tells you something about Esau, because when Isaac said, yep, that�s Esau,
I killed that lamb and put it on my head.
And so what happens?
Jacob steals that blessing from his brother Esau, correct?
Don�t you dare, don�t you dare say, well he had to do it because Abraham was
going to give the covenant to Esau.
All right, let me ask you this.
Esau said, or Isaac said to Esau, feed me and I�ll give you a blessing and Jacob
did that and got the blessing and deceived his father, right?
But it wasn�t the Abrahamic blessing.
You think there might have been a little tension, I mean once Isaac realized what
Jacob had done, had fooled him, deceived him, what do you think the next time they
saw each other was like, uh huh, yeah, let me touch your arm here Isaac, let me
touch your arm here Jacob.
Yeah, oh yeah, that doesn�t feel like Esau anymore, I think there might have been a little
tension.
Well look what happens next time they come in contact, chapter 28.
In Genesis chapter 28, look what it says, verse 1, �And Isaac called Jacob and
blessed him and charged him and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters
of Canaan.
Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel, thy mother�s father, and take
thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban, thy mother�s brother, and God
Almighty bless thee.� Didn�t he just bless him?
Wouldn�t you think this, remember Esau said don�t you have some kind of blessing
left for me and he did give him a blessing.
He had another one in the holster he never told Esau about.
He had one in the family safe.
He never told Esau about, because it wasn�t for Esau.
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest
be a multitude of people, watch, and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and
to thy seed with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger,
which God gave unto Abraham.
So in Genesis chapter 28, that passes, in verses 3 and 4, that Abrahamic covenant passes
on to Jacob.
Now somebody�s going to go, �Yeah, but that�s to Jacob the man.
It�s not guaranteed to Israel.� Okay, you say so.
Just don�t read your Bible.
Bible�s a dangerous book if you believe too much.
Because you�ll read that book and you�ll find out it doesn�t back you.
Look at Isaiah chapter 55.
You know what I love?
Can I give you a statement that you may have made and I�ll tell you, never make
it.
Never say this.
You ever hear somebody say this, �You showed me where I�m wrong from the Bible, I�ll
change what I believe.� Have you ever said that?
You lying through your teeth.
If some Pentecostal guy came and showed you a verse and said, �See, that shows you
can lose your salvation,� you wouldn�t go, �Well, there he is, and during the
end, I guess that I can lose my salvation.� You know what you�re going to say?
You go find five or ten more verses that back your side, right?
And so people always go, �Well, you just showed me from the Bible.� You don�t
have that much character.
Haven�t you ever deal with somebody and you ask them before you witness to them,
you say, �Before you show them anything in the Bible, you go, �Do you believe
the Bible?� Oh, yeah.
�Do you believe this is God�s book?� I sure do.
You believe everything it says?
I sure do.
Show them salvation by grace.
I don�t care what you say, I don�t believe that.
And Christians are just the same.
Let me tell you what this is a problem.
This problem that not just Stephen Anderson, but all of the mid-tribbers, and all of
the replacement theology guys, the problem they have, and so too the modern version
people, it is not a head problem, it�s a heart problem.
Because they will see this scripture, look, I wish you could see that video, I�m still
watching it in my head, it�s the funniest thing I ever saw.
But the fact is, I am so blessed because the guy, scripture after scripture after scripture
last night, and you know what he did?
He didn�t touch one scripture.
Isn�t it funny, the bozo, his little puppet the other day had to say, �Gip didn�t
use much scripture when he couldn�t answer what I gave, had about three times that
much last night, I�ll have about four times that much tonight, and that much
again tomorrow.� So, and he will come back with something.
After his masters, who write the script and pull the strings on him, they�ll say, �Here,
Stevie, read this, be a good boy, we�ll treat you good, we�ll make you famous,
because I�ll show you the deal he made with the devil.
I will show you the deal that Stephen Anderson made with the devil.� And he can�t
refute it, so all he can do is get a � I told you, we�ve come to the point now
where good video work sends the message.
So he wants people to think Sam Gibson is a fool, �Hey, I might be a fool, but I�m
better than him.� That�s what he said, �I might not be very intelligent.�
Well then, Steve, if you call a guy not intelligent, and he puts you in a box,
do you know what that makes you look like?
So now you�ve got Isaiah chapter 55, now let me just show you something,
you�ve seen this verse, look at verse 11, �So shall my word be that goeth forth
out of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sin it.�
That verse is one of the famous verses that we Bible believers go to about God honoring
his Bible, correct?
And that his word will come to pass, yes.
But that interpretation of that verse is very much like, �Behold, I stand at the
door and knock and want to come in and save you.�
Because in Revelation chapter 3 verse 20, �Behold, I stand at the door and knock,�
that�s not the Lord knocking on the heart�s door of a lost man trying to save
the man, that�s the Lord trying to knock on your door while you�re watching Dancing
with the Stars, and he�s trying to have some fellowship, okay?
The secondary meaning of this is what we use it for, the Word of God.
But do you know what this is a promise of, when he said, �My word, it shall accomplish
my purpose,� you know what�s right before this?
God promising to keep Israel, that�s what that verse is talking about.
He�s not only saying, �I�m going to keep Israel,� but he said, �My word, I�m going
to tell you I�m going to take care of Israel, and so shall my word be that goeth forth out
of my mouth, it shall not return unto me void, I will take care of Israel, and it
shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto
I sin.�
So how do you know?
Look at verse 4.
And if you notice, that�s only seven verses away from what we just read.
Look what it says.
Verse 3, �Incline your ear and come unto me, here and your soul shall live, and
I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.�
You know, he�s talking to, he�s talking to the nation of Israel.
Which means, that that covenant, it was given to Abraham, unconditionally, it was
given to Isaac, to Isaac unconditionally.
Don�t you think it would have been good, Isaac, to say this to Jacob, �You know what,
bud?
I was going to give you the Abrahamic covenant, but you fooled me, and just for that I�m
going to give it to Esau.� But he still didn�t do it.
It still went to Jacob.
So that Abrahamic covenant came from God.
It was given to him unconditionally.
It went to Isaac.
It�s unconditional.
It went to Jacob.
It�s unconditional.
And just in case you don�t think that�s the whole nation of Israel, he said to Israel
himself, �It is yours.
No ifs, ands, or buts.� No thens, �No, if you do this, I�ll bless you.� He
said, �You�ve got the covenant.� Now, he has never taken that covenant from
Israel.
Anybody that says he has, they better watch their self, because they�re lying.
They might lose their everlasting life.
They just may lose their salvation.
You say, �You don�t think they can lose their salvation.� Well, maybe they
can.
Now, you say, �Here�s the thing about Israel.
Israel did do bad, did they not?� You say, �Yeah, they�re doing bad.� Yeah.
I�m not sure they ever had abortion.
I am not sure they let men marry men.
Okay.
So we�re kind of lining up for something.
And God punishes.
What parent here has not punished their child?
If you haven�t punished your kid, you�ve got a monster.
So he punished them.
So how did he do it?
How many times do you read in the Old Testament a nation comes in and beats up on Israel
and beats up on Israel?
In fact, here�s what you see.
Israel wanders from God, a nation comes in and beats up on them, they run back
to God.
Then they wander from God, a nation beats up on them, and God even says, �I sent
them there to do that to you.� You know what I tell parents when our oldest
son turned 18 and he flew off to Bible college.
We happen to be in Philadelphia.
That�s the airport that he flew out of.
And I still remember this.
I�m watching his Southwest jet take off, you know.
And I did not have this remorse.
I did not watch my 18-year-old son leave and they thought, �Man, I should have
spent more time with him.� We went on the road when he was 10.
I was always close to my boys.
And the last 10 years, man, we lived in the same�I mean, we lived in a trailer.
You understand?
If you live in a trailer, if you do push-ups, you�re in three rooms.
I used to walk in and say, �John, get to your room.� He goes, �Okay.�
We had lived, the five of us, in a 31-foot box, okay?
And it wasn�t I have remorse because I didn�t spend time with him and should.
I spent as much quality time, quality of anything you want.
My remorse was I didn�t realize how fast 18 years went.
Then my wife and I were kind of in shock for the next four years because the next one
down was 14.
We were thinking, �He�s going to leave in four years.� And then after he left,
we thought, �And how soon about you?� But here�s what I tell people.
If you have a little baby, set him on your lap.
Those little kids right there, set them on your lap, brother.
Set them on your lap as much as you can.
You know why?
Because they all get big enough where they go, �I don�t want to sit on your lap
anymore.� But here�s the thing.
See if this isn�t true.
Your kid, he�ll turn eight, nine, �I�m going to sit on my dad�s lap.
I�m going to sit on my mom�s lap anymore, until he gets hurt.� And all of a sudden
he wants to be three again.
I mean, he�s out there fighting, you know, I don�t know what they fight now.
They can�t fight Indians.
They�re not allowed.
They can�t even fight Muslims.
So he�s out there hugging trees and fighting, you know, some blight for the elm tree or
people that don�t love whales.
And he falls down and hurts himself.
And buddy, you know what?
When they get hurt, they forget all about that and don�t sit on their lap anymore.
And so, you know what the nation of Israel did?
They get away from God and they get hurt and they run back home.
And they�d get away from God and they got hurt.
It got so bad, he put them in captivity for 70 years.
You say that�s very severe.
He�s the father.
He�d do what he wants.
And so he let countries walk on them.
He put them in captivity for seven years.
In 70 AD, he tore that house down and it was his house.
It was his.
In Romans chapter 11, here�s what he says now.
Verse 28, �As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes.�
Now notice that?
See these guys, you know what, here�s what I can�t understand about the replacement
theology.
Now I don�t buy into it, don�t believe any of it.
I told you I think Israel not just was God�s chosen people, but they still are.
But why couldn�t a guy say this?
They buy into the first half of the replacement theology.
I think God has replaced Israel with us Christians and I think we, when God talks about the Jews,
that�s us.
That�s what these guys say.
Why can�t they do that without buying into the second half, which is everybody
that gets into the first half, the second half is, they absolutely hate the Jews.
Would you go soul winning with a black t-shirt on, with a Palestinian flag that
says �Free Palestine?� You say who did that?
Stephen Anderson and all of his thugs.
Well that�s balancing the approach.
Really?
That�s balancing the approach?
Well, then why don�t we say something good about the devil?
We need to balance our approach.
Why don�t we say something good about homosexuality?
We�re just too negative about homosexuality.
Don�t you have to balance it?
Hey, can I tell you something?
God doesn�t believe in balance.
You can�t find God believes in moderation.
He believes in temperance.
I love these people that go, �Well, God believes in balance.�
If God believes in balance, then you�ve got to go out and get as many rapists, homosexuals,
and perverts in this church as you have people who aren�t.
I can prove from scripture that God doesn�t believe in balance.
The Bible, Final Authority, you remember when he made that temple?
And you ever go into a theater and they have a big curtain that goes from that wall
to that wall and it comes together?
From that wall to the center, it took five panels.
That�s ten panels, right?
Ten curtains?
Eleven.
Five and five would have brought the curtain together and the seam would have been dead
center and that would have been balance.
But God said, �I want one side to have five and one to have six so that when
they close, this one closes over that, it�s off center.�
But that way, because a curtain that comes together, doesn�t it sometimes part and
you can see past it?
God didn�t want anybody looking into the Holy of Holies.
In the name of holiness, God will forego balance.
Keep that in mind.
When you say balance, balance, balance, there�s no balance.
God says this is how it is and that�s how it is.
I want to get my say in, �You don�t count.�
And over history, nations have shown Israel no mercy whatsoever.
Isn�t that true?
Now, hold on, hold on, hold on.
This isn�t this list, this is another list.
I tell people again, I tell you guys all the time, �Read your Bible, read your
Bible, read your Bible.�
The only reason I tell you that really is, �Why don�t you read your Bible?�
And if you read your Bible, sometimes you just see stuff that stands out and have
no idea why it stands out.
I really don�t.
I don�t understand why it stands out.
I�ll show you something.
Look at Matthew chapter 28.
Matthew chapter 27.
There's just an odd thing that happens in Matthew chapter 27.
I see this nowhere else in another chapter in Scripture.
And when I get done showing this, do you know what I�m going to say?
Yawn.
So what�s that about?
To which I�m going to say, �Oh no.� But we�re not talking about anything deep
theological.
But it�s this.
You look at verse 1, and starting there we�re going to go through, not every verse,
watch the words that for some reason start with the letter �S.�
Okay, look at verse 3.
Toward the end of it, it says, �Brought again the thirty pieces of silver.�
Verse 4, �Saying, I have sinned.� Verse 11, �And Jesus stood.�
Verse 19, the very end of it, �For I have suffered many things this day in a
dream because of him.� Look at verse 26, �And he scourged Jesus.�
Verse 27, �And then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus.�
Verse 28, �And they stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe.�
And they spit upon him and took the reed and smote him on the head.
Verse 32, �A man of Cyrene, Simon by name.�
Last word in verse 33, �Place of a skull.� 35, toward the end, �That which was spoken
by the prophet.� 36, �And sitting down they watched him
there.� 37, �And set up over his head.�
42, �He saved others.� 43, �I am the son of God.�
44, the very end of it, �Cast the same in his teeth.�
45, �Now from the sixth hour,� 47, �Some of them that stood.�
48, �And straightway one of them ran and took a sponge.�
49, end of it, �See if Elias will come to save him.�
52, �Many bodies of the saints which slept.�
Verse 54, very last words of it, �Son of God.�
60, �Roll a great stone to the door of the sepulchre.�
61, �Mary sitting over against the sepulchre.� Talk about the angels.
63, �Saying, sir.� 64, �Made sure until the third day lest
his disciples come by night and steal him.� And watch the very, look at the very
last verse, �So they went and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone and setting
a watch.� They say, �What does that mean?�
�I don�t know.� �I don�t know, I don�t know what
means anything.� But you know if you read your Bible, sometimes
you just find something. Maybe that is a prophecy for you people to be aware and for you to
look out that maybe God is going to send you some great preacher whose name begins
with �S.� Well, I was just supposing. Anyway, that�s what I�m saying guys.
If you just read your Bible, I don�t know what that means anything. And it may mean
nothing to you, but I sure liked it. I�ll show you something. Look at Ruth chapter
4. Ruth chapter 4. I tell people, I said, �I can�t take
a hint.� You ever have somebody say something over and over, and then you get
away and you say, �Oh, they were trying to tell us to leave.�
And let�s see if you can find out the hint that God is trying to get across here.
You know the story. Ruth�s husband died. She goes back to Judah with her mother-in-law,
Naomi. Boaz, the rich old guy, falls in love with this young girl and says this.
Then went Boaz up to the gate. He wants to marry her. But the protocols of Israel
make him second in line behind another kinsman. This guy�s got first dibs. And if he says,
�I want Ruth,� Boaz is out. So he�s got to check with this guy to see what his
intentions are. Are you going to marry Ruth? Yes. Okay. If he says no, Boaz is
the next guy up. Then went Boaz up to the gate and sat him down there. And behold,
the kinsman of whom Boaz�s fate came by, unto whom he said, �Lo, such a wan,
turn aside, sit down here.� And he turned aside and sat down. And he took ten men of
the elders of the city and said, �Sit ye down here,� and they sat down. And he
said unto the kinsman, �Naomi, that is coming again, and out of the country
of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother, Alimelech, and I thought
to advertise thee.� Hey guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, 400 year old book.
Out of date with the times. And anybody here, you guys go on to eBay and you
go onto the internet and you want to sell something, what do you do? King James
Word. From that day to this, when we want to sell something, we say, �I�m going
to advertise it.� My, how out of date your King James Bible is. And I thought
to advertise thee, saying, �Buy it.� Now watch, see if you can pick up the hint
that God is trying to get across here. �Buy it before the inhabitants and before
the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it, and if thou wilt not redeem
it, then tell me that I may know, for there be none to redeem it beside thee, and I am
after thee.� And he said, �I will redeem it.� �Redeem it, redeem it, redeem
it, redeem how I love to proclaim it.� Isn�t that something? Look at verse 6,
�And the kinsman said, �I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own
inheritance. Redeem thou my right to thyself, for I cannot redeem it.� Now this was
the manner in former times in Israel concerning redeeming. I mean redeem,
redeem, redeem. You think God is trying to get something across?
You know, I was telling him this morning, and I am glad, if you�re saved, I�m glad.
I hope you�re redeemed. Now I am not starting a new doctrine. Steve,
not starting a new doctrine. You got redeemed when you got saved. But here�s what I
mean when I talk about it. I say this, it�s good to be saved, it�s better
to be ruined. I was talking to this guy that got saved, you know, sometimes you
get saved and somebody shows up right after that with a list that says, �Now
that you�re saved, you can�t do this, can�t do this, no more happiness,
no more smiling, no more fun, no more laughter, you�re a Christian now and a Baptist.�
I was talking to this guy and he said, he said, �I got saved, but I�m not saved.�
Folks, like he did every Monday night. But he�s
not saved. This guy steals a grocery cart, comes by, picks it up, says, � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �