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Jeremiah 18

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Stumbling in there. She's stumbling all over. She's got the munchies. Okay. What? It's done. Alright. We're live. It's Monday night here in Bremerton. Welcome to Monday night bible study at Rob and Vicky's. Let's pray. Father, we come before you and we thank you for another opportunity to gather together in your name, to share a meal together, to pray, to fellowship, to minister one to another, to worship you in songs tonight, Lord, and to study your word, Jeremiah 18. We commit this time into your hands, and Lord, we ask for your blessing. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Just as you are just as you are before your god sing with me again just as you are before your god your god one day every tongue will confess you are god God sent his son. Because because I know oh yes I know he holds the future because I know yes I know because because know, yes, I know the future and life is worth I was blind but now I see Amen. Kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things And no distractions shall stop me from You got one more? No. That's it. You're Alright. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Brandon. Welcome to you. Do better. Jim and Marlene just met him, and he's got a good testimony what Jesus is doing in his life. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, everybody. The camera's right there. Everyone out there too. How you doing? It's like thousands of people that tune in. Yeah. Well, thank you, Jesus. You're gonna be an Internet star now, man. So a little bit about me. You wanna sit on my lap? I can if you like. I want to. We're gonna be Jesus is gonna be a star. Right? But, no, anyhow, for me, I just got saved probably two years ago. But anyhow, I'll just try to keep brief. So even from birth, my mom only had one ovary, one fallopian tube, and she went to have surgery, and she ended up having me. I always heard miracle, baby miracle, but but, you know, any of that. And then, you know, I lived in San Diego growing up. You know, the seed of the Lord has been planted. I live with my uncle them. They serve the Lord faithfully. You know? I've been around church. I knew Jesus, god, the holy spirit were real, but I didn't know the power. Right? I said prayers, but still live for the live for the world, right, and for myself. So fast forward, you know, divorced, everything. I had kids. And then after I got divorced, you know, I ended up meeting a woman, my fiance, and she passed away. Excuse me. She passed away. And when she passed away, I chose to be selfish. Right? And go back in the world and do drugs, lose my kids, lose everything. They say when you see a white light that's near death. Right? That happened two times. It happened at work, you know, and I overdosed and I was doing drugs and nothing to glorify anything of that, but everything that I'm saying is gonna glorify the Lord. Right? You know, the drugs that I were was was really hard. You know, heroin, fentanyl, all that. You're gonna be a sinner. Be the best you can. So that's what I did. Right? You know, I'm not gonna be half in and say I love Jesus. I love that and be a hypocrite. Right? You know? Because where I came from and how I grew up, even in the street, it's it's don't talk about it, be about it. And, you know, be real about whatever it is you believe in or what you stand for. So I didn't know what I stood for. Right? But I I drugs and just a lot of evil. I've been around a lot of evil, you know, but I've been around a lot of good people as well. So, like I said, two times you see the white light that's near death. That was from overdosing up here, you know, when my lady was, alive at the time and she had lupus. So we're living in and of the hospitals. You know? And then after that, I chose to leave and take my daughter to California. Right? And, you know, and go down there, try to surround myself with family, and maybe that might help. I don't know. But I'm around places. Our houses are getting raided and whatnot. And, you know, I'm around all that stuff. And so two years ago, August 26, and I was all explaining with you two. Right? Only reason I know the date is because they call for the bill still. Right? Right? So August 26, I flatlined and stood out of my body for twenty, thirty minutes. My cousin and my buddy tried doing CPR on me. I overdosed on fentanyl and heroin, you know, at that time. And I probably stood probably from here to your gazebo right there and watched the paramedics work on my body and shove a tube down my nose, a green transparent tube. And the most purest white silhouette I've ever seen in my life, more pure white than any cloud you could see out here, stood next to me and put his arm out and said, are you ready to go home or are you ready to go back to that? And all I screamed out that time was just, no, my kids. And instantly, there was nothing said after that, but what went through that tube was a black shadow. And after that shadow went through the tube, then I come up. Bam. And then the paramedics are all running around like chicken with their head cut off. Right? And, you know what happened? You know what happened? And I was like, no, bro. I was like, you just woke me up from a nap. Please hold on because I'm getting bombarded with questions and whatnot. And, you know, again, it's spiritual warfare, you know, that we're in, and your eyes and your ears are portals to your soul. And what you allow in is what you're gonna welcome, You know? And those spirits are gonna root if you allow it to. You're gonna water water it. It's gonna it's gonna grow roots. And the the same thing for me is is that's what I did because that's what I was around. And some knowing, some unknowing. You know? And, again, I'm Hawaiian. We grew up spiritual, you know, in our culture and stuff like that, you know, worship, know, all these other gods and all this and that, and and we brought curses upon ourselves, generational curses. You know? So after that happened, you know, I ended up you know, I'll make it brief. I ended up going to the hospital. I left before I got dope sick. And so fast forward real quick. You know, December is later on a couple months and stuff happened and all kinds of stuff's going on. But I needed peace. Right? And so I used to attend church up here before I left with my lady and my kids, but I used to go high every day, every service. I need to get so high that I have to get so high that I didn't get dope sick before service would be over. So I wasn't in the bathroom getting high or something. Right? And my you know, I'm here, and I'm a hypocrite and this and that for my sister and my lady at the time. And I said, look. Something I need to be here. I need to be here. If I don't go, then I'm not gonna hear whatever it is I need to hear. And but if I I'm gonna get high here or I'm gonna get high on the street. Right? And so I kept going. Right? But there was a song, William McDowell, I give myself away. And at the time when I was in San Diego, I thought it was a song that brought me peace, but it was it was the presence of the Lord at my church there that brought that peace that I needed. And I just needed to to feel that when you're around evil like I was. You need anything to not feel that. And it's it's tough, you know. And so I put that song on. And mind you, my cousin's house is active. This place is active all day. People coming up. I put that song on, and I just start crying and crying. And then I look up at the clouds in the sky, and I see my name written in the sky in the clouds saying, Brandon, go home. I love you. And and I'm like, alright. And I'm just balling like I am now. Right? But it was a good thing because every tear shed at that moment was part of the world I would felt like I carried. And everything that I was just holding that was holding me bound, falling off of me. And then and then the next song that comes on was I surrender by William McDowell. And when that came on, I go like this. Oh, you're good. Oh, you're good. So if I say no, then I go back to dealing with life the way I haven't been dealing with it, hon. You take your hand off me. And if I say yes, then all these drugs comes out of my pocket and I live for you. Right? Oh, you're good. Just like that. Just like that. And neighbors around whatever. I don't know. Something's happening in me and I don't know what it is. Right? It's different. And then all of a sudden, I'm hearing like this because, you know, I've been every house I was at, we're getting raided. We're really getting raided by cops, FBI, all this. So we're on drugs, we're on paranoia. Right? And all that stuff. K? So I hear, he's gonna do it. Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. And I look over in the bush. I said, what am I gonna do? Right? And then all of a sudden, I just sit there and I start crying, and then I pull the drugs out of my pocket and I wrap them in a bandana. And to me, living on the streets and spending that money on those drugs, that's I'm holding tight to that because I I relied on these drugs. I needed this daily. I needed it. Every moment. I felt like, right, being prisoner and a slave to something. And so I rolled it up and I crushed it. And I just kept hearing, oh my gosh. He's gonna do it. I'm so excited. What am I gonna do? Just like this. Right? I don't know where this is coming from. So I take it and I walk over to the trash can and I dump it and it sounds like the most biggest party I've ever heard in my life. Cymbals and yelling and string. He did it. Yay. He did it. I'm so excited. And I just like, I don't know what I did, but yeah. Okay. And I'm like, god. You know I wanna grab this. Right? And then so I walk away and the song's still playing. I surrender. And I said, gotta work with me here. I'm a smoke a cigarette. So I go and I smoke two cigarettes and sit there because whatever's happening is something different. And I don't know. I'm smoking and smoking. And then as I'm doing that, just the most softest loving touch that any of you can imagine comes behind me and just lays it their hand on my back. And I thought it was my cousin. And I looked back. I said, what are you doing? And no one's behind me and just guides me and guides me like this slowly. So loving and so gentle and guides me down to my knees. And I'm just balling out and balling out. And that same loving touch grabs my hand and throws my hand out like that. And then this hand, and I continue to look up and just shed tear and every tear and every tear and every tear I shed felt like just everything falling off of me that was just holding me and holding me and holding me. And so now I know I was being set free. Right? I was being set free. Yeah. And so so that happens. And I don't know how long I'm down just looking at the sky just crying and shedding tears and feeling light, light, light, like like I could float almost, you know. And it felt good. And then after that, I end up getting up and I'm just like something. I'm wiping my face and this and that. And my cousin comes out, b, what are you doing, bro? And I said, I'm leaving. I'm going home. I gotta go. He said, okay. Well, what car are you taking? I said, I'm walking. I gotta go. I have to go. He said, you're lying. I said no. So I dumped out my backpack at the time and had my car title and my car keys, jewelry, you know, all this stuff that didn't mean nothing. But to me at that time, I felt like it did before. Right? I dump it out, and I grab a stolen bike that I had. And I grab a guitar, and I take the bike and go walk on the street. I don't know where I'm going. And then after I do that, I hear again, oh my gosh. He's gonna do that. He's gonna do it. And I'm like I'm looking like, what am I gonna do? And then again so I go and find where I the bike got stolen and knocked on the door. And I look at the lady and just in tears. And she looks at me and just goes like this. It's okay. And I just did that and walked away. And then I go to a buddy's house where I would stay off and on and get high and and I stayed there smoking a cigarette and stuff and it just felt different. Things felt different for me. And then after that, I just got up. Was like, alright, bro. I gotta go. He's like, where are you going? I said, I don't know. I just gotta go. So I left. And after I left, I went and just stayed on the streets and just mind you, I didn't get high this whole time. So, again, supernaturally delivered. Right? And to me, I I needed it. I needed it all the time, I thought. So that right there, you know, is is is anyone that knows about that, that's to us a miracle here on Earth. Right? But it's normal in heaven. Right? You know? So so I do that. I sleep on the streets. The next day, I call my uncle. My uncle been serving the lord, and and he, you know, he knows what I was going through. And he told me anytime anytime that deal stands. And the deal was that he was gonna buy a ticket, a plane ticket for me. Right? That whenever I wanted to go home. So I go like this and, like, oh, I wasn't this, you know, but I was like, does that deal still stand? And he said, where are you? And I told him where and he came, came, and he got me in, an hour and, grabbed some of my stuff out of storage at the time, left everything else. He took me to his house. I stayed there for a couple of days. And then, one of the days he calls his buddy over that's been serving the Lord for quite some time. Right? And, you know, talk and I was telling him about what happened. And when I had CPR done to me, it felt like there was something in my chest. Right? It felt like a centipede in my chest. K? And I knew what people were around and whatever happened. Right? And I tried regurgitating this before, but when I felt it come up, got scared and I stopped because I thought I was gonna fall on the ground dead and no one was gonna find me. So there's a spirit behind everything. May it have been the spirit of death, whatever is right. So I tell my uncle them about that and tell them, you know, what I was going through and what a little bit what happened. And all they do I'm sitting at the table right here. My uncle's right here. His brother's right here, and my auntie's right here. They look at me. They look at each other, and they just go like this. Oh, we're gonna pray for you. And then put their hands out on me and just whatever they said, they locked in their faith and pulled down every authority of heaven that they had in them and just and I don't know what happened or what they were saying, but if I go like this, my neck went like that, and I breathed out the longest breath I ever could breathe out, longer than I could ever breathe out now, just going like this. And then I've seen a haze come out. And then when I seen that haze come out, they still whatevers. And then after that, it was gone. That thing was gone. Yeah. Right? And then so that was 2021 Christmas Eve because they wrote it in my bible. Right? So with that being said, after that, I flew back here and got pressed in and just stayed around godly council and serving the lord. And here I am. Alright. Thanks, Brandon. Thank you. We're pretty Pentecostal here too. Yep. Alright. Hallelujah. Thank you very much. Okay. Anybody can outdo that one? Anybody? No. No? Alright. Pretty amazing testimony. Oh, like your son, Brandon. Couple of Brandons. Yeah. Being set free from the strong Amen. Yep. Yeah. That's pretty scary for a parent. If the devil plays like that permission, he's gonna let it go. Alright. We're in Jeremiah chapter 18. Oh, our Facebook is lighting up, man. K. Alright. Jeremiah 18. Father, we come before you, Lord, and we thank you for the testimony of Brandon that he was dead. Now he's alive. He was blind. Now he can see. He's got ears that he can hear, and he wants to use his life, his testimony for your kingdom and for your glory. We pray the undergird and strengthen him and give him a great understanding of your word, give him ears to hear, and to be used of you, Lord, for your kingdom and glory. Lord, we ask that you'd be with Jason who's in the hospital. We pray that you'd heal his body. We thank you for him and pray that he would improve daily. Thank you for all the people that you've healed this past year. It's so amazing. And, Lord, we pray now that as we study in chapter 18 here that you'd be our teacher, that you'd open the scriptures to our understanding, that you'd minister to us, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Alright. Jeremiah. He the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying, arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. And so when God tells you to do something, you don't ask him 10 questions. You have one area of direction that is go down to the potter's house. Right? So we talk about progressive revelation. A lot of times, we want to know the next 10 things God's going to do in our lives. So I'll pick on Sean and Shannon. They're gonna move to Texas. So they're waiting on the Lord. If you if you wait, you put a fleece out there, you're waiting for the Lord to show you that's his will, That's good to wait. But some people will take and say, well, these 10 things need to happen before I'll go. And the Lord may be giving you one thing to do. The Lord may be saying to Philip, leave the revival in Jerusalem and go down to Gaza, which is desert. And if you don't go down to Gaza, which is desert, then you don't ever meet the Ethiopian eunuch. You never see him up on the camel reading Isaiah 53. You'll never be able to share the gospel with him and baptize him nor be raptured. But if you obey the Lord with what he's told you to do, then he will steer a ship that's moving, that's left the port, that's got some wind in its sails, and he'll start to direct that ship and move that ship in such a way. And so the importance of obedience of that which you hear, be obedient in the small things and allow the Lord to close doors and open doors. Paul, the first time he wanted to go to Asia, the Lord hindered him, wouldn't allow him to go to Asia. Then later, Asia opened up to him. So be sensitive, lead and guide in the spirit. It's pretty clear here what the Lord wants Jeremiah to do, go down to the potter's house. And then I went down to the potter's house and behold, he wrought a work on the wheel. So when we're looking at the potter's house, the potter is God. He is the potter. The wheel are the circumstances in our life. The clay is me. And God, as we saw in Romans nine twenty and twenty one, He's sovereign. He's on the throne. He's in control. And He knows what manner of vessel He's making of you, a vessel of honor, right, that is going to bring Him glory and honor, a work of art, His Ephesians two verse 20. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus on the good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. And so so he's watching this and he says, And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter. So he made it again, another vessel as seemed good to the potter to make it. And so the vessel was marred. The vessel had imperfections. The vessel had problems. And but the potter didn't give up. I took a pottery class and if you have a big bulge on the side of it, I was no good at it, but I met a lot of pretty girls. So they like to go to pottery class. And there's some reason they like to take pottery. So you got to have your priorities. Right? And so anyway, you'd you'd run that thing and the water and you'd work it. And then you got to take your thumb or your side of your hand and you got to kind of push on the part that's protruding that's kind of, you know, not cooperating or whatever. And in some cases, you might have to start all over. You might have to take the clay, squish it all back together, add some water, get the consistency right, put it down and knead it like dough. Evie makes bread. She makes all sorts of things. You got to get the dough and you got to knead it. So God might take his very powerful strong hands and he might have to start kneading you, start pressuring you, start bringing circumstances in your life that is severe pressure and you think think you're going to die and you think it's over. But all we can do is the clay is yield. We have to yield. We can't anybody know the story of the gingerbread man? Marlene wants to tell the gingerbread man story. Okay. She knows the real version. Tell the can she have the microphone? Can she have the microphone? Now this is not the clay. This is baking of the gingerbread man. And it's the emphasis upon yielding, upon creation, the potter where the clay is creating something. And then the importance of yieldedness that I'm twice his. I'm created by him and I'm redeemed by him in the sending of his son. So Marlene, Marlene's got a good version. Can she have the microphone? She taught Sunday school for many years. This will really bless you. Write this down. Take notes. Something you can teach your kids and your grandkids. My grandkids never heard this. Have you ever heard about the gingerbread man? See, they know it. They don't know it? Alright. Tell me it. Alright. Go ahead. I think everybody know well, most people know it that the gingerbread man ran away and they he just kept saying, you can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man. And the wolf wanted to or he gingerbread man wanted to go across the river, and the wolf said, I'll take you. And so he got on his back and then he kept having the gingerbread man move up. And then, yeah, he never made it to the other side. The wolf ate him. Oh, that's a bad version. I got a bad version. That's what I know. I I I don't know where she heard that from. My Sunday school class would be crying right now. Alright. So the baker was making at Slice Bakery a gingerbread man and had an idea in his head of what he wanted to fashion that would be bring glory and honor to the establishment and people would enjoy and and and that sort of thing. And so making this gingerbread man and then the gingerbread man came to life, breathed into the gingerbread and came to life. And the gingerbread man could have yielded to the creator, yielded to the baker, and been set out in the window and been a vessel of honor and other people would want to buy a gingerbread man and all. But in exercising this free will, the gingerbread man decided, you know what, I'm out of here. And and ran away. And a little boy wound up catching the little gingerbread man. And and he didn't eat them. Let's see here. And so anyway, the gingerbread man wound up being in possession of the little boy or excuse me, of the baker. Really, it was the kid and his mom made the gingerbread man. Gingerbread man ran away. And then the baker wound up with him and it was in the window and the little boy comes and sees him in the window and goes in and tells the baker, hey, that's my gingerbread man. Me and my mom made him. And he says, no. Sorry. You're gonna have to purchase him. And so, so the little guy had to give the baker some money to purchase some. The little boy held the gingerbread man close said, you're twice mine. I made you. I bought you. You're twice mine. Then he ate it? Then he ate I don't think he ate them. I think he guess I guess they got married and lived happily ever after. So I mean you guys can make up any version you want, but the picture is that the Lord has made each of us unique and He has a plan and a purpose for each of our lives. Some are made as vessels of dishonor, some are made as vessels of honor. A vessel of dishonor, now remember we are made from the clay, we are made from the dirt. Dirt is worthless. Dirt has no intrinsic value. But that dirt mixed with water and the right consistency and put in the hand of an artist, can be made into a vessel that can, be extremely valuable. And so that's what's the Lord's fashioning with you and I. The value in that of creation, but also the greater value in that He's purchased us with the blood of His dear son. So there's great, great value in you and I as vessels. And He wants us to be vessels of honor that bring glory and honor unto him. And so sometimes when the circumstances come along, we're not inclined to yield to the potter, yield to what he's doing. The nation of Israel here is not yielding to God, not yielding to him. The nation of Israel are his people, but they have rebelled against him, and they're going their own way. And he's trying to bring an illustration under the people of how obstinate they are and how wrong it is. In Isaiah 60 four:eight, it says, O Lord, thou art our father, we are the clay, and thou art the potter, and we are the work of your hands. And so, there are so many times in our lives that we resist the circumstances that God has allowed in our life. Sometimes, life can go along kind of easy, things are falling into place And then at other times, life can become very, very difficult. And we don't have the advantage of seeing up ahead or knowing all things, but that's where faith comes in. We have to trust God that he knows what he's doing, that he's the master potter, he doesn't make junk. And then I have a promise in Roman eight twenty eight, being confident is the very thing that he that has begun a good work in you. All things are working together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose. But Philippians one six, being confident in this very thing, that he that has begun a good work in you, that he will perform it or he will complete it in your life. So that comes with faith. I have trust him. Sometimes the circumstances in my life, as I look at them since I was a Christian, not not before. I don't I don't care about what happened before. But as a Christian, I had preconceived ideas. I had ideas and and based upon other pastors and Christians and people, I, you know, observe their walking relationship with the Lord. And so you impose some of these things upon your walk with the Lord and you say, delight yourself in the Lord and he'll give you the desires of your heart. And you know, you got a lot of verses that seem to indicate that, hey, this is how I'm gonna get into the Bless Me Club. God's gonna bless my life. And part of the Bless Me Club has to do with, you know, not doing drugs, not doing alcohol, not smoking, not chewing tobacco or running with girls that do. You know, it's you kind of kind of clean yourself up and and then Paul told Timothy, he said they they because they think that godliness is a means of gain. So you come to a place in your walk with the Lord where you're finding out that the cross is involved. If any man come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. That death is a part of it. That death itself is a part of it. That self denial is part of it. And in many churches, many messages, you're not taught that. But it follows all through the bible. I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I live yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. The life that I now live, I live by the faith of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. And so no longer I live in, but Christ living through me. And so you're you're wanting the Lord to live through you and and for you to work out your own salvation with fear and trembling for it is God who is at work in you putting in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. So there's that yieldedness to the hand of the of the potter. It could be that you're, you know, young in your marriage and your wife dies. And she gets sick and she dies. And you're you know, what did you do? You know, what did you do wrong? Did that happen to you because you were evil because you did something wrong? No. It was God's sovereign will. It was something he decided before the foundation of the earth that this lovely woman that you married, that she would get cancer and that God would take her home at 28 years of age, you know. Nothing you can do about it. Nothing you can do. But you have a choice. You can continue to trust the Lord, or you can be embittered and angry, and begin to fight against God's hand upon your life and what he's wanting to do. And you're gonna you're gonna lose. You're gonna lose if you fight against the potter. You're gonna lose if you harden your heart against him. But you'll win if you allow that breaking to change you from within, allow you to walk by faith. So there are times in our lives where things happen like with Job that are inexplicable. There's no way to explain what happened. And Christy was trying to explain to somebody recently about our church, you know, years ago, what we went through as a church. And I told her, said, there's no way she can understand it. It is you're better off not even trying to explain it. And then I also let her know, I don't understand it. I can't understand what happened and why it happened. So I have to continue to walk by faith. There are times in your life things happen, you just don't understand. So trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he'll direct your path. So you learn to live life day by day following the Lord's leading and guiding for just this day. You get tripped up if you look to the back, the past, and you get tripped up if you project too far into the future. So you take just this day, and you seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, trusting him that everything is working according to his will. And that's called the walk of faith. We don't walk by sight, we walk by faith. And the Lord throws a lot of curve balls. There's a lot of things that come into our life that we didn't see coming, that he didn't tell me ahead of time, you know, was gonna happen. I heard guys say before that if God told you ahead of time what he was gonna do, you'd have never stepped out in faith to serve him. You know? You it's it's while you're in motion. It's while you're walking. Cathy tells me all the time that Rick, if I'd have known what we were gonna go through, I'd never married you. You know? And I say, honey, do you regret marrying me? Yeah. Big time. Big time. It's a prison sentence. Yes. So anyway, so I got a lot of verses here, but I'll just read this. Second Timothy two verse 20. In a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also wood and of earth and some to honor and some to dishonor. If a man therefore shall purge himself of these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified meat for the master's use, and prepared under every good work. So you purge yourself of the impurities, the things that are going to pull you down. Writer of Hebrews talks about every sin and the weight that so easily besets us. When you're running the race, don't want to be weighted down by sin. You want to take the weight off, you know. Get rid of the weight. You want be as lean and mean as possible to run this race. But sin has a way of bogging us down. And so we're not we don't lose our salvation, but we lose our witness. We lose our witness of being a vessel of honor and we cause shame and dishonor. When David sinned with Bathsheba, what did Nathan the prophet tell him? But he went on to say, what else? You've given great occasion for the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme his name. So when we sin, David, you're the man, you're not gonna die, but the sword's not gonna depart from your family. There's consequences, David, for your adultery. There's consequences for your lying. There's consequences for your murdering of Uriah. And David, God's forgiven you but there are consequences. And David, if you needed another woman, another wife, why didn't you just ask? You had a harem of women. Why did you steal this one ewe lamb from your neighbor, you know, who was one of your mighty men? And then he said, you've given great occasion for the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme God's name. Isn't that the worst thing that could happen to us? That we would shame God? That we'd live a life that brings shame and dishonor on him? That all these people that we've been trying to witness to and share Christ with and all that, that, you know, that we do something like David did that brings reproach, tremendous reproach to God's name. The good news is all that reproach and all that failure, all that stuff winds up on the shoulders of Jesus as he's hanging on the cross, and God pours out his wrath upon him. Jesus is the only hero. You see David, you know, Saul has killed his thousands, David has tens of thousands. Whether it's Moses or Abraham or David, we all fail. They all fail. When you get into Hebrews 11, the Holy Spirit edits out all their failures. Abraham is called the father of our faith. But twice, God tested him with a famine, a financial reversal and he lied. That's not much faith. That's fear, right? So his faith muscle is growing and it's the trials of things we go through that help us to grow as we learn to yield. And God is preparing us for heaven. He's preparing us to mature and be perfected in Him. And so in Matthew chapter 27 verses three through 10, go ahead and turn there. It says verse three. Then Pence, who had betrayed him when he saw that he was condemned, repented and brought again the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying I have sinned and that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, what is that to us? See that to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed and went and hanged himself. Now Joseph was betrayed by his brothers for 20 pieces of silver. The religious leaders paid Judas Pence 30 pieces of silver, which is the price of a slave. All they value Jesus' life, this carpenter from Nazareth, is a redemption price of according to Exodus twenty one thirty two, it's just $30 or excuse me, 30 pieces of silver. And Zechariah eleven, twelve and thirteen prophesied that this would happen, Jesus would be betrayed. And I'll read that for you because I like that one. Zechariah. Zechariah. I should have a grandson named Zechariah. Do I have one named Zechariah? I can't remember all the grandsons I got. How many I got? Oh, okay. Sometimes I go, I I can't remember their name. Alright. So eleven, twelve, and 13. And he said unto them, if you think good, give me my price. If not, forbear. So they weighed for my price, 30 pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, cast it under the potter, a lordly price that I was prized out of them. And I took the 30 pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord. Then I cut asunder my other staff, even bands, and I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. And so prophesied over five hundred years ahead of time of what was going to happen to Jesus. So the silver in the temple departed and went and hanged himself, and the chief priests boy, wish they'd do that. Why won't one of them go hang themselves, these betrayers? And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said it is not lawful to put them in the treasury because it is the price of blood. They're admitting it. They're admitting that they paid a price, you know, to kill Jesus. And they took counsel and bought with them the Potter's Field to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called the field of blood unto this day, then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet saying, and they took the 30 pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value. And they gave them to the potter's field as the Lord appointed me. And so, now, in that picture, you have God the Father as the potter, You have you and I as the clay and the wheel as the circumstances. Here in the potter's field, you have a picture of a field that's worthless, seemingly worthless because when the potter would make a mistake when he put the clay into the kiln and fire for the vase or whatever, if there were imperfections in the clay, the kiln, the firing going through the fiery trial, the fiery trial we're going through is to purify us. But the fiery trial for many exposes them, exposes them with the, you know, things in their life that need to be dealt with. And maybe there isn't even the faith there. Maybe they aren't even a believer. But they take those broken pots and they throw them into this field, and this field is strewn with broken pots everywhere, so the field becomes basically worthless. They buy the potter's field to bury strangers in. They're not going to bury Israelites there. And we're going to see when we get over to as we're going through chapter eighteen, nineteen in the Valley Of Hinnom. The Valley Of Hinnom is Gehenna. It's outside the city of Jerusalem where it was a perpetual burning. So a dump of a perpetual burning, and that's where the religious leaders wanted to take Jesus and throw him into that Valley Of Gehenna where we get hell, the the Lake Of Fire. And but Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus grabbed hold of the body, and Joseph allowed him to use his his tomb for the weekend. So that was yeah. And so that's that's what happened there. But but Jesus looks at at this field, and he goes and he sells all that he has to purchase the field. It's a worthless field. The world is worthless. He's got so many planets out there, planets everywhere, galaxies. He could start all over wherever he wants. In Genesis six, he did start over. It repentest me that I made man because the thoughts and intents of man's heart is only evil continually. So it says, and Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Right? And Noah was perfect in his generations. Noah was not polluted in his DNA with any of the fallen angels cohabitating with him and such. So God says, I'll take with Noah, these eight people, and I'll put them in Christ. And I'll I'll have them come through the time of judgment. So a type of the nation of Israel coming through the fire, coming through the judgment. And that Enoch walked with God and was not. Enoch's a type of the church, the rapture of the church before that. So the Lord Jesus, he went and spent all that he had to purchase that field. Why? Because he considered you a treasure. He considered your life worthwhile even though the devil and others would look at your life as just a broken potsherd, good for nothing but to be trodden into the foot of men. So God wants to make us vessels of honor. The nation of Israel is obstinate. They're fighting. They're not giving in to the Lord. Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, oh, of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter, saith the Lord? Peeled as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, oh, house of Israel, the sovereignty of God. Doesn't matter what family you came through. Doesn't matter what trials, what difficulty you came through. If you yield to God, God can take what the enemy meant for evil, Joseph, and he can turn it around for good to save many people. Right? That's Joseph's perspective. You guys sold me for 20 pieces of silver when I was 17 years old. I spent thirteen years being unjustly accused, but God did raise me up to be in command of second to that of only pharaoh. And then now, the 70 come down into Egypt. God's used me prepositioning me with all that heartache, with all that injustice, all that wicked stuff that happened to me. I can look back on my life now. God did it for good. You guys did it for evil and your jealousy of me, but God meant it for good to save, you know, the nation, basically. Verse seven, at what instant I shall speak concerning the nation and concerning the kingdom to pluck up and to pull down to destroy. So God's in control. Every nation has a shelf life, and we don't know what the shelf life of America is. But he says, can take a nation, whether it's Babylon, whether it's the Medo Persians, whether it's the Greeks, whether it's the Romans, Russia. I can put a hook in Russia's jaw with a coalition of nations, five nations, and entice them to come into Israel for the spoil, and I can wipe out five out of every six of that invading force, and the whole world is gonna glorify me and declare that the true and living God is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. That's what's going to happen. And they're going to say, uh-oh. And God's going to be glorified. And at what instant I shall speak concerning the nation, concerning the kingdom to build up and to plant it. If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them. And so you have a free moral agency. And if you're Nineveh and God sends Jonah the prophet, Jonah the prophet has free will, and Jonah the prophet is told, go down to Nineveh. Go to Nineveh and preach to them. Preach and it's the biggest revival in the Bible besides what we see in Revelation six and seven. So and when they asked when Jesus asked his disciples, who do men say that I am? Nobody said you remind us of Jonah. Jonah was an angry prophet. Right? He's angry. Right. And Jonah went there and told him, forty days and you're going perish. But before that, Jonah was unwilling to go because he knew that God was merciful. And so with America, I don't go to second Chronicles seven fourteen. I don't do that. You know that verse? Somebody say it. God's not an American. Did you know that? He's not an American. We're not His people. We're not His people. We apply that to the nation of Israel. Yes, certainly. Promise for them. In a general way, maybe any nation that turns back toward them. But Nineveh, Nineveh are the hated Assyrians. And these hated Assyrians, when Jonas says, no way, I'm not going. He has free will. He has free will. And he says, I'm not going. I'm going to Tarshish. I'm going the opposite way that you're telling me to go. Yeah. Now can God make you willing? Yeah. You're talking about free will. Right? So God, the potter, you, the clay, God prepares a boat for you to ride in that's 98.6 degrees. It's hot inside that whale. And the description that Jonah gives is he took me down to hell. It was hell. Sometimes the circumstances that God allows in our life are like going to hell. But Jonah cried out in that crucible of trial. He cried out to God and says, alright, I'm willing. I'm willing. Now I'm willing. And the whale spit him out on the shore and the gastric juices on the belly of the whale made him like Bad Bob the albino and he's just looking And really he's coming to shore. The prophet that's the albino prophet. And he comes into the city and he's like, you know, seaweed in his hair and all that other stuff. Forty days and you're going to perish, and they've never seen a guy like Jonah. And from the king all the way down to all the animals, they all repented. And it says, and the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time. God's the God of the second chances. God's the God of the third chances. Samson's hair grew back. Right? His hair began to grow back. Even when we fail, even when we're obstinate, even when we fight against God's will for our life, he says, alright. I was gonna take you the easy way. Now I'm gonna take you the hard way. I'm gonna take you by way of the woodshed, and whom the Lord loves, he chastens and he scourges every son. Gonna take you out and I'm gonna spank you. I'm gonna apply pain. I'm going to dislodge your hip, Jacob. I'm gonna make you a cripple. I'm gonna make you a limp from this way day forward. But in doing that, I'm gonna change your heart. I'm gonna change you from the inside because the problem in your heart, you're selfish in your heart, and I need to bring you to that place of brokenness where you'll finally trust me, where you'll surrender unto me because I'm the potter and you're the clay. And so any of these nations, like the nation of Nineveh, God gave the nation of Nineveh, the city of Nineveh, the Assyrians, a hundred and fifty year, almost a hundred and fifty year reprieve. Would you like a reprieve? Would you like America to be able to get back to normal and we have another fifty years, sixty years of how life used to be before COVID? Yes. Right. What's it gonna take? Repentance. Repentance. It's gonna take the church recognizing judgment begins in the house of God and for the pastors all the way down to call the nation under repentance. And part of that has to do letting go of the idols, letting go of all the stuff that that we've propped our lives up with and seek Jesus for who he is, not what we can get from him. So we see the free moral agency, and God's intention is to benefit you. God's intention is to bless your life. God wants to bless your life. Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, thus saith the Lord, behold, I frame evil against you. Boy, that's a bad place to be to get on the side where God's framing evil against you. And devise a plan against you. Return now everyone from his evil way and make your ways and your doings good. So Deuteronomy 2nine 29, the secret is to obey. Narrow is the way that leads to life eternal and few there be that find it. Broad is the way that leads to destruction and many go in there at. So follow the Lord Jesus. Come into that place, that narrow way of obedience unto him. And they said, there is no hope. Look at this verse. This is the day in which we're living right here. And they said, there is no hope. What's hope? Last week, we told you the definition of hope. Hope. A confident expectation of coming good. So let me illustrate it like I did the gingerbread man. Are you ready? So these scientists, they had some rats, mice. And they put the mice into a basin of water, bucket of water. And the rats could swim in that basin of water and they would drown within like seven minutes. They're just done. It's about how and you can change the number if you want. It's my illustration. So then they put another 10 mice into this basin. And right at the six minute fifty mark, they reached in there and grabbed them and pulled them out of the water and took a blow dryer and blow dried their hair and gave them a pedicure and gave them something to eat and comb their hair and just just warmed them up with an incubator and everything real warm and cozy. And and then once they're feeling all nice and warm and cozy, put them back in the bucket. Put them back in the water. And those mice lasted like seventeen hours because they had hope. They didn't give up. That's what hope will do. We can persevere. We can go so much further in our walking relationship with the Lord when we have hope knowing that God is good and that He is working everything together for good. And presently, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and savior, we can endure a whole lot knowing that Jesus is on the throne, that he's in control, and that he's not a cruel evil master that just wants to laugh while we're drowning, that he's going to rescue us, that he's going to return. He said, except those days be short, no flesh should be saved. But for the elect's sake for Israel, the Lord Jesus is gonna intervene. He's not gonna allow them to be ultimately wiped out, nor is he gonna allow you. Another one for hope, his overcoming power or presence every day. I heard that one somewhere. I like it. That's good. I like that. His overcoming power or presence every day. Praise the Lord. With if if we know if we sense his presence, we can go through anything. So I would tie that in with Psalm 23, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for thou art with me. We can go through anything when we sense God's presence. If I'm Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and I'm in a fiery furnace, why aren't I freaking out? I've just eaten like 12 of Robbie's marijuana brownies. That might be part of it. But, you know, why aren't I freaking out in the midst of that fiery trial? People are freaking out. People are losing hope in our culture because their lives were propped up with drugs and alcohol and porn and money and things. When that starts to be taken away and they're feeling the pressure, how are they going to cope? How are they going to not freak out? The Xanax, all the different prescription drugs to deal with anxiety and depression and all those things. How are they going to get those drugs? How are they going to be given these things that they're so credited to just to try and cope in a time of prosperity? What's going to happen when dissipates? What's going to happen at that point? And so for us as Christians, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are a good example of how to get through it. How did they get through it? The only thing that was burned was what? That which bound them. You can be freed up in a trial. There's a fourth person in that trial. Jesus, right? You can go through anything if Jesus is there with you, right? So hope is what, Jim? His overcoming power of presence every day. So the Lord Jesus is there with him in the fiery trial. Jesus promised you and I will never leave you nor forsake you. So he's there with us. He's tempted in all points like we and yet without sin. He understands the feeling of our infirmity. He is a human being and he suffered far more than we're ever going to suffer. And he and he was acquainted with that suffering. And so he has empathy for you and I of what it's like to be in this clay pot, in this body, this human body. And his good thoughts concerning you and I are numbered more than all the grains of sand of what he's wanting to do, who he's fashioning us into to be like his son. And so they said there is no hope. So maybe no hope in that the jigs up. I hoped in the economy. I hoped in Bill Gates. I hoped in Claus Schwab. I hoped in the Antichrist. I hoped in I could be as God. And then the Lord opens up the abyss, and these demons come out in Revelation nine, and they're stinging men. And they're tormenting the men of the earth, the earth dwellers. And these people can't even die. They can't even escape judgment through dying. God keeps them from dying. That's real torture. I'm gonna keep you alive so you feel this, you know. But it's his wrath being poured out upon a Christ rejecting world. I mean, they throw a party in chapter 11 when the two witnesses are slain. They're so obstinate, they're so angry, they're so in love with themselves and with Lucifer that they throw a party, rejoicing that the Antichrist is more powerful than the two witnesses who lay in the street three and a half days and then boom, they're raptured up. And then they're like, uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. And so and they said there's no hope, we will walk, notice, after our own plans. Yeah. Are you trying to walk after your own plans? And we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart. So Jeremiah seventeen:nine last week, what's that say about the heart? If you're trying to follow Oprah's heart, well, let's read it. What's it mean? What's it say? So if you're following your heart, you think you can be deceived? You think you can be deceived by your own heart? So how do you want to walk? According to truth. Yeah. You wanna check everything and compare it to the word of God. Lord, what's your word say about this? Yeah. And then you wanna pray and and ask the Lord to give you ears to hear of what the Holy Spirit is saying. We sang the song tonight, man shall not live by bread alone. Bread means the devil comes along and says, hey, if you're the son of God, command these stones to be made bread. Give in to your physical desires. Give in to your physical appetites. And many people construe that that's God's blessings because look, God's prospered me. Look at the bread I have. Look at the abundance I have. And Jesus says no to that. No shortcuts. I'm gonna go by way of the cross. He can offer me the kingdom right now, but I'm gonna go by way of the cross. Right? And and so he's he's tempting us to take a shortcut. He's tempting us to lean on our own understanding, the devil is. And Jesus says, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. So I have the written word, the logos, the bible, but individually, presently in my life, I don't know their circumstances. I don't know your circumstances. I don't know you you ask me, hey, what should I do? I say, well, let's eat a rib eye. Let's talk about it, you know? But I don't know. I can't I can't give you advice. How would I know? Now if you're going to do something that's contrary to God's word, I got you. You you God's words explicitly says, you're not to be unequally yoked together with an unbeliever. Right? Not God's will. No. But, oh, we're in love. We're in love. No. You're in lust. You're in lust. Not going work. Do it God's way. No. I'm going do it my own way. I'm going do it my way. We're in love. No. Do it God's way. And then there's other times where you're not violating God's word. I mean, Jesus is God. If he wants to, he can cause the stones to be made bread and eat. Right? He could jump off the pinnacle of the temple and his angels give his angels charge over thee, lest you dash your foot against the stone. Right? But Jesus comes back to the scripture and said it is written, thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God, him only shall thou serve. And then the devil shows him all the kingdoms of the world. I give you these kingdoms if you bow down and worship me. And Jesus looks to the Logos, the word of God, and the word of God says, thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou serve. Begone, Satan. But there are times where man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. That's the rhema. It's the spoken word of God that he speaks to your heart. So when I asked Kathy to marry me forty two years ago, we were married tomorrow, She had to pray about it. She had to think about it. She had to hear from the Lord, is this God's will or not? And once the Lord spoke to her heart and knit our hearts together, the two come together and become one, there's no confusion the rest of your marriage of whether you did the right thing or not. Right? Because his spirit bears witness with your spirit that you're a child of God that you're in his will. Right? And so you hear these idiots say stuff like, well, you know, we got married when we were 20. We were too young, you know. Oh, God made a mistake then, Because what? Now your now your career is successful and you're tired of your wife, and so now you want to throw her away and have a trophy wife and a girl twenty, thirty years younger than you. Yeah, right. And so you can justify anything you want really. But as a Christian, can't do that. We hold to a higher standard, and we hold to God's word and what pleases him. We want to live lives that please him. So after your own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart. So now I bring you two places. One, bring you to Psalm two. Oh, how the heathen rage. Imagine, imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his anointing. What's Klaus Schwab and these guys doing? They're saying that they're gods and that they're going to be gods and that anybody that doesn't follow what they're edictine, you're gonna die. They're threatening to kill the masses of people, population in a reduction. And these guys are filthy dreamers, just dreamers. And it says that God laughs at them. They're actually going to try and stop Jesus from returning. The Antichrist and his armies. How delusional are these guys? The Lord Jesus is simply setting the stage to come and give them their due. And the whole world, the angels are going to look in on it. The blood is going to be as high as the horse's bridle. He's going to trample out, you know, the vintage. And so we we understand the how delusional. God's going to give the world over to a strong delusion because they reject the truth in second Thessalonians two. The imagination of their hearts, they're gonna follow. The devil is going to deceive them and put ideas, you know, within their hearts. And and they're gonna follow these lying spirits and doctrines of demons and be seduced by demons and follow the antichrist. Jesus said, I come in my father's name and you receive me not. Another shall come in his own name. In him, you will receive. And so when we're thinking in terms of direction for our life, we're to take every thought captive. We've talked about this many times. We're to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. You sow a thought, you're going to reap an action. You sow an action, you're going to reap a habit. You sow a habit, you're going to reap a character. You sow a character, you're going to reap a destiny. The battle is with the mind. The battle is in the heart. Proverbs 2six 14 says, there is a way that seems right unto man but the end thereof are the ways of death. You are leaning on your own understanding, it seems okay. In the book of Judges, it says that every man did that which was right in his own eyes. There was no leadership. There was no standard. They rejected the true living God. They told Samuel, we want to have a king like all the other nations. Samuel was bummed. God told Samuel, Samuel, they haven't rejected you. They've rejected me. God was there with the children of Israel out of Egypt over those four hundred and thirty years leading and guiding them with a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day to shield them from the heat and directing their lives. And so Paul tells us that we're to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and every imagination and high thing that exalts itself. Let me find it here. You guys see it? First it's first Corinthians 10. There's no temptation that's taken you but such is common to man, but God is faithful who will not permit me to be tempted about that which you are able, but will with the temptation make the way to escape, that you may be able to bear it. Flee from idolatry. Why aren't I finding it here? Well, I got it memorized. So take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and every high thing and imagination that exalts itself above the knowledge of God. And so there's thoughts, there's imagination, high thoughts that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God, bring all of that into captivity to the sovereignty, to the obedience of Christ. Right? You guys want to find that for me? Second Corinthians five ten. You guys will find it. I didn't make it up. It's in the bible. Second Corinthians ten five. There it is. I was there. I just couldn't see it. Okay. So go ahead and read it, Vicky. Make sure I'm not a heretic. Okay. So that ties in with what we're seeing here. Every man following the imagination of his own heart. We hear more and more people talking about follow your heart, follow your heart, follow and even the Mormons, they direct people to follow that burning in your bosom. Burning in your bosom. Well, what if you have antacid problems, you know? How do you know that's the Lord, you know? Had too much pizza. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, you can never have too much pizza, I'll tell you that. Therefore, thus saith the Lord, ask now among the nations, who has heard such things? The Virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. And so she had such promise, such incredible promise. You're a parent, and you've been through a horrific childhood and you get married and you want to do things right and you've got a Christian home and you have these two sons, these two daughters and you have such high hopes, high hopes for them. You're going to shield them from all wickedness and all the evil and all the bad stuff that you were exposed to. You don't want them to even go there. You watch everything. Make sure they don't see anything bad on television and music, everything is shielded from such promise, such potential. And it just breaks your heart when they exercise their free will and they run toward the pigpen. It just breaks your heart. Breaks your heart. And that's the nation of Israel. The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing. Paul said, I've espoused you to one husband, even to Christ, but I fear lest as the serpent beguiled Eve, so you could be seduced be seduced from the simplicity that's in Christ by false prophets come along that bring a different gospel, a different Jesus, and a different spirit. Don't do it. Don't be seduced by these false prophets, you know. Jesus said, take heed that no man deceive you. It's the deception. The devil will send deceptive people into the lives of your children to deceive and seduce them. Man, you gotta look them going to school if they were to go to school. I saw some horrific pictures the other day, horrible pictures of little girls with scars across their chest. That's horrible. There's no going back. Not just the hormonal changes, but surgery to take away, you know, their womanhood. Just horrible. Who who's doing this, you know? And they they're not even old enough to decide for themselves, you know? People imposing this, it just breaks my heart. Will a man leave this the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? And so, you know, the faithful ministry of the Lord in your life, the refreshing water, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink, Jesus said, as the scripture has said, he that believes in me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of, you know, torrents of living water. As the deer pants after the water brook, so pants my soul after thee, oh God. Why would you hew out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water? You know? The thirst that God gives us, that God shaped hole within our heart only he can fill. And he says, I'm not giving you the water that people in Hawaii are getting from FEMA that makes them sick. You know, did you hear about the director there in Maui that shut off the water and would allow them to have water for five hours? You know, they they needed water to fight the fires. They almost had the upper hand. But this idiot this idiot from the Obama administration, he he said, well, submit submit the paperwork to see if this what kind of what kind of impact the use of this water is gonna have on Hawaii and on the environment. Yep. That's the idiocy. They moved this guy to a federal position away from there now. But I mean, that's that's the wokeism. That's the and and he tried to cite being a Hawaiian. He tried to cite that, you know, water is as a god. And we need to treat the water as a god. You can't just waste the water. So the water is more important than people and infrastructure, especially if BlackRock is going to buy it all and make a smart city there. So their false religious system, the idiocy of these guys. And because my people have forgotten me, they have burned so you forget the Lord. You start out with the Lord, now you've forgotten them. This is due in remembrance of me. Every week, we're doing communion. And I used to do communion at the church once a month. And then there was a time when we were in crisis. We did it every Sunday night so that we could pray and ask the Lord for a miracle. And we'd worship and do communion every Sunday night at the Roxy, crying out to God to help us. And then when we transitioned into the Seventh day Adventist Church, we followed the pattern that my pastor had. You know, every Thursday night, they would do it. So we do it once a month, one Sunday a month. But when the government said that we can't worship and we can't partake in communion, it pissed me off. And so, alright, we're going do it every week. We're going to do communion every week. And we're going to sing louder. And so but the emphasis upon this do in remembrance of me. Don't forget the cross. Don't ever forget the cross. No matter what you're going through, do not forget God's definite proof of His love for you and that He sent His son to die on the cross of Calvary. So once known, now forgotten. Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity. So they're into idolatry now and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient past to walk in the past in a way not cast up. So Solomon reminds us that there's nothing new under the sun. Absolutely nothing new under the sun. But these guys are coming along presently with a whole new doctrine, a whole new teaching that is supposedly new. It's nothing more than apostasy. It's falling away from the faith, falling away from Christ. They got to remove Jesus Christ from the public consciousness. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. But notice it says the ancient past. Murder is going to always be wrong. When Moses went up Mount Sinai and got the Decalogue, the 10 commandments, God made it clear what's acceptable, what's unacceptable. The murdering of children in the womb is unacceptable. The human trafficking of children is unacceptable. It's never going to be right. Pedophilia is never going to be right in the eyes of God no matter how much these guys twist things, going away from the ancient paths. It's not even the Mosaic Law. It's written in the hearts of men, of parents, in your conscience. You have to violate your conscience to go to that degree. Even the Koran, you know, these the guys with a false religious system recognize that this is wrong to pray upon children, you know, even though they do a lot of it. But And so, they're falling away from the ancient past. Jeremiah six sixteen, my advice would be to go back to the foundation, go back to the basics, go back to the 10 commandments, put them back in the school. In Jeremiah six sixteen, we read, Thus saith the Lord, stand in the ways and see and ask for the old Pass, where is the good way and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk in it. So one of the things that pastor Jack Hibbs and others are doing is they're holding civics classes and trying to teach Americans the foundation of this country, the constitution, bill of rights, the black regiment pastors that were part of the revolution, 1776, the revolution, and why we fought it, and teaching on Romans 13 that we don't need to be passive toward evil. The higher power, the highest power in the land is God. And then underneath God is the constitution in this form of government. The globalist would love us to think with their mandates and the usurpation different treaties and such that they're above the constitution, but they're not. And they're not above God. Worship is essential. So we're going to obey God rather than men. So the tier, the chain of command is number one, God. Number two, in a constitutional republic, it's the constitution. I have no intention of violating the constitution. I'm not a I'm not a, you know, I'm not a rebel against my government. It's my government that's chained to the constitution unless they become tyrannical. So underneath those laws that protect all of us, these God given inalienable rights, natural law. And so Jack Hibbs and others are trying to teach people to understand that you don't need to be passive toward evil. You stand up for the truth. Go back to the ancient past. Go back to what our founders established based upon the Mosaic Law, a Judeo Christian ethic, the old and the new testament, that our culture was founded upon. It wasn't founded upon atheism. It wasn't founded upon, you know, Masonic, although there's a whole lot of Masonic dudes are mixed in there, Luciferians and Illuminati mixed in there. But they are always held at bay because there was such a dominant emphasis upon following Jesus. In God, we trust in our coin and all. So the root cause of our falling away as Americans is the apostasy, falling away from the truth. The church not teaching the word, the people unable to understand what's right and what's wrong. So go back to the ancient past pastors, teach the word of God. Teach the word of God and give people the tools, equip them so that they understand their left hand, their right hand. They don't even know what a boy or girl is anymore. They don't even know what marriage is anymore. It's pretty basic. Go back to the Garden of Eden. In the beginning, God made them male and female. Genesis one twenty seven, right? It's pretty simple. But we've gone so far from the ancient past, from the foundation. You And get away from the foundation of it, Jesus being that rock that our whole culture is built upon, and then you're going to be in that place of sinking sand. So they walk in the past to walk in the past in a way not cast up. And so, the Lord wants to bless the nation. To make their land desolate in a perpetual hissing, everyone that passes by it shall be appalled and wag his head. And so when we'd finish our service at Calvary Costa Mesa on Thursday nights, Sunday nights, pastor Chuck would sing number six twenty four through 26. Do you remember that? The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee. And be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace. That's how we'd end the service. I ended saying, see, here they are in the air. But you get me, right? Yeah. If I could sing, I'd sing it every week. Christie tried to help me do it one time, reminding us that God wants to bless your life. God does want to bless our lives. Even though we go through trials, He wants to bless our lives. And it's just who He is. Nobody has to work me to want to bless my grandkids. You know, it's in my heart. It's it's it's just there. And that's how it is in God's heart. He wants to bless your life. To make their land desolate in a perpetual hissing, everyone that passes by it shall be appalled and wag his head. So America is in the ash heaps. The countries around us are going to just be amazed at the destruction, the fires that are taking place all over Canada, all over America, all the destruction with the chemtrails and the food supply and water supply and just everything being destroyed. I will scatter them as with a cast wind before the enemy. I will show them the back and not the face in the day of their calamity. And so, he's going to turn his back on them. I was told recently by a person that I trust, he vets his information, that our military, our generals, our entire military staff that's left over after Obama removed the 400 senior level officers. And basically, they're asked the question of, would you ever fire on American people? And there are so many patriots in through our military, this is no way. Well, you're gone. They remove you. So you got to be a globalist to stay in. And one of the things that was told me the other day, and you can bet this to see if it's true, is that each of our generals, our military staff has a Copart Chinese person that they are subjected to. That everything they do goes for a person that shadows them that, you know, that basically, it's a Chinese coup. We've been taken over already. And they're basically going through the steps of subjugating our federal government to the whim of the globalist. And so China is the vehicle. China is the communist entity that is basically going to colonize America. They're going to want the water and all the natural resources and their people to come here to colonize. And that's why the Daigle report are bringing down to 90,000,000 people. We're at three thirty million people in America. That's two forty million people that are going abide by before 2025. So it means that you've got the weaponry to defeat anybody, but you don't have the will because you've been treason, traitor. You've been taken over by globalist entities, nongovernmental organizations and such and bankers. They'll build up the Chinese military with our technology, and they'll basically deplete our natural resources, our oil reserves in the event of war. They'll deplete our weaponry with Ukraine and Afghanistan and such. And they'll put us in a position where we where they just walk in. So so you don't have leadership. You don't you don't have the leadership because we've turned our backs upon God. Then said they, come and let us and here's one other note. We have the uni party. Once you understand it's a uni party, that politicians are scripted, the media is scripted, that everybody is scripted and gives their part to distract and keep kicking the can down the road till it finally collapses, till it finally crashes. So whether it's Trump or Pence or Obama or Biden, you have nobody fighting for you. It's globalism. And the bible says that. The bible says we're moving in that direction of a one world government, one world monetary system. The dollar, our economy, everything's being looted, being raped and pillaged before it crashes. So there's there's no way back except King Jesus do a miracle. Then said they come and let us devise plots against Jeremiah. So now they're angry at Jeremiah. They're angry at the messenger. So this would be like me telling the truth right here and people listen to this saying, no way. No way. We've got representative government. We're we're gonna vote Trump in. We're gonna get our country back. Right? Do you know the fastest growing religion in America, listen to Jan Markel today, is a new apostolic reformation. It's been around since the forties, but NER. But they're moving in a direction of kingdom now. Kingdom now. And they have the seven if you listen to Jan Markel's presentation, the seven mountains, the seven pillars are like control of the media. And what else? The media, the schools, the the banks, everything. So so you wanna put Christians in these positions, and then they're gonna get rid of, the corruption, and we're going to usher Jesus in once we do that. So that's the new apostolic reformation. Bethel is their headquarters. Then said they come and let us devise plots against Jeremiah. Oh, you're mad at Jeremiah. For the law shall not perish from the priest, nor the counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his word. So those that are teaching the truth are going to face artificial intelligence. They're going to face the false prophets of AI rewriting bibles, rewriting themes and philosophies. And basically, it's you can be as God. That's the lie that people are going be fed is that you can be as God. They're going to be given over to a strong delusion that they believe the lie, and so they're going to be intoxicated with a huge amount of pride that we don't need the true living God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We don't need Jesus. He's going to be the ash heap of history. And we're gods. And so it's Luciferian. The worshiping of the devil is basically what's happening. And so the you know, we have our prophets, they're saying. We have our wise men, and we don't need to listen to Jeremiah. And so there's slandering Jeremiah. When you lose the argument, when they're with the truth, they'll slander the messenger. They'll try and attack the person that's bringing the truth. So Jesus said, if they've hated me, they're going to hate you. So get ready for hatred. It's not a popularity contest. I'm not in the ministry in Kitsap County to be the most popular guy in Kitsap County. There's only one person that I want my life to be pleasing there too, and that's Jesus. That's it. And the chips will fall where they are. People can decide where they want to go. If I say something wrong, you confront me. Show me biblically where it's wrong. But typically what happens is people are angry because biblically speaking, it's not what they want to hear. They're looking for teachers with itching ears that will tickle them and tell them what they want to hear. And Jeremiah is not doing that. He's letting them know you need to repent. So the rebellion of these people. Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of those who contend with me. So we're to earnestly contend for the faith. We can't be passive. We're vigilant. We fight. We move forward. We storm the gates of hell with the truth. And our weapon our weapon is truth. The devil's weapon is deception. And we counteract the darkness with the truth. That's why the fact checkers and the censorship and even in Hawaii today, the government in Hawaii is telling their people, don't listen to the influencers. Don't listen to those on your phone, on Facebook and Instagram and all them. Why? Because they have videos. They have information. They're catching the government in their lives. They don't like that. So I anticipate the crashing the Internet when things get really dicey so that nobody can refute what they're doing. They're just going to take the Internet down and people aren't going to be able to communicate what's happening. You're only going to have the official government lie to go by. So give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of those who contend with me. It's a fight. You're going to be in a fight. You're going to be hated. It's a battle. It's a battle for Kathy and I to be here. It's a joyous, wonderful blessing on Sundays and Mondays. It's a blessing when we have people, you know, in attendance that love Jesus and love his word and want to worship. It's such a joy and a blessing. But it has been war. It's been a war to be here in Kitsap County. The devil hates us. So we fight not against flesh and blood, but against spirits and principalities of the air. So you know you're doing something right all hell breaks loose. Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath from them. And so, I like to say that to the Lord too, you know, hey, why don't you protect me? Why are you going to let them throw me into the pit? And therefore, deliver up their children to the famine and pour out their blood by the force of their sword and let their wives be bereaved of their children and be widowed and let their men be put to death. Let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. So let them reap what they've sown. Let them reap what they've sown. So be angry and sin not. I would love to see one of the globalists get a bloody nose. I love it. I'd love for someone to be able to knock that cocky look bomb his face right there. Just knock him down, take him to a Gatinomo, tilt him back and put water down his face, you know, and let him squeal, you know. They do it to so many good people. The January 6 people, many of them still are being held in isolation, you know, for a lie. A bold faced lie. And and these guys are are just untouched. The untouchables, it just makes me insane to watch them. But I have to remember, vengeance is mine. I'll repay, saith the Lord. Right? God's got God has a plan to deal with these guys. So right now, they're the useful idiots. Right now, they're the Revelation seventeen seventeen guys. God's putting it in their hearts to set the stage to bring in the Antichrist system because Jesus is coming back. And so it's so hard. Kathy always says, don't they know it's going to affect their children? They have kids. So all this stuff they're doing destroying everything, you know, what what kind of how's it going to affect their grandkids and all? So they're bringing it all down. So let a cry be heard from their houses when thou shall bring a troop suddenly upon them, for they have digged a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet. So their objective is to kill the prophet. And Francis Schafer years ago, he understood where our culture was going and he wrote a book called The Time for Anger. Is church too passive? You know, do you know this whole emphasis on love, love your neighbor? Do you know what that means? Love them into hell. Don't tell them the truth. Don't tell the truth. Don't tell them the truth that they're going to hell. Love them into hell. Don't offend them. Don't offend them. Don't confront them. Love them into hell. God loves you. He made you that way. You know? Love wins. That's what Obama said when he changed the marriage and he put the rainbow colors outside the White House. You guys got it wrong twice. You voted about marriage and you got it wrong. So I'm a dictator and I say this is what marriage is going to be, and love wins. Andy Stanley, everybody, love wins. Love wins. That's misconstruing what the word love means, which would be the highest good for people, you know. It's not good. Yet the Lord yet Lord thou knowest all their counsel against me. Yeah. Lord knows all of it, the plotting, the scheming, the scamming, to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee. Deal thus with them in the time of thine anger. So you think Jeremiah is upset? He's the weeping prophet and he's upset. And yet, I see Jesus say, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. What if Jesus would have gotten angry? What if he'd poured out his wrath when they were spitting on him and pulling his beard out? As a sheep before his shears is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. You know? But there's a day coming. There's the day coming where he's gonna destroy. That's right. With the sword of his mouth and the brightness of his coming. So we have to have that balance of being wise as serpent and gentle as doves. We're not to be passive and be a doormat. The Apostle Paul appealed to the Romans in regard to his Roman citizenship. Is it legal for you to strike, to beat a Roman citizen? And the guy was scared, you know, punishable by death. So we have God given inalienable rights and we need to keep them on their heels, those that are trying to take away. Now one of the ways they are in the process of doing it is with a health treaty with the World Health Organization that every nation would relinquish its sovereignty and give it over to the World Health Organization. So they'll design a new pandemic, a new COVID strain. And we were talking earlier, it's time for the flu shots. Everybody that's getting these flu shots is getting COVID. And it's in Canada and everywhere and all the nursing homes and all that. And so if they do shut down and do lockdowns and masks again in the airplanes and all that sort of thing, one of the guys, the coffee guy, he explained it this way, and I agree with him, is that Alex Jones and these guys, they're hyping it that it's coming back. And a lot of people have heard that they're coming back with the COVID protocol again, lockdowns and everything. But this guy said that Moderna stock is tanking, that because of COVID not being viable anymore, the vaccines and people not doing the vaccines, their stock is dropping. So Moderna was able to line the pockets of our politicians when the vaccines were being produced. And our government buys vaccines from Moderna. So the coffee guy, he thinks that it's just hype to get people feared, and then the government buys some more vaccines from Moderna. The stock goes up, and then all these politicians, they're greedy, aren't they? They make more and more money. And so who knows how it's going to go? Bill Gates said the next one will be more powerful. A whole lot of talk about Ebola and all these things. But in any event, there's so many different levels of deception that's taking place. And we have the prophetic picture of what Jesus is saying, and we're watching knowing that our redemption draws nigh. All of us are saved. For me to live is Christ to die is gain. If I were to die tonight, I'd be in heaven. So I don't fear death. But meanwhile, I'm not gonna be a slave to Joe Biden either. I'm not gonna be passive to a dribbling lunatic people. I'm not going to give in to their idiocy. So we're going to contend. We're going to earnestly contend for the faith. They don't like us because we speak the truth. And churches that don't speak the truth, Christians that don't speak the truth, they're they're anemic. They have no power. There's no power in their churches, in their lives, whatever. So Sunday, we're gonna talk about going and sharing the gospel, how powerful it is to go and share the gospel in Romans chapter 10. And so I'm excited about that. And so let's pray. Father, we come before you and we thank you for bringing Brandon here as wonderful testimony. Where sin does abound, grace does much more. Lord, we're thankful that you saved to the uttermost, that there's many of us here have similar stories, similar things that have gone on. Others of us are raised in Christian homes and never had to experience that sort of stuff. But Lord, we thank you that you didn't come for the righteous. You came for sinners. You didn't come for those that are whole, but for those who are sick. And you're the great physician, and we pray that you continue to heal, deliver Brandon from the impulses and the things of his flesh in his past, that you empower him with the power of your Holy Spirit. Help him to be a man of the word, to know the right way, to walk in that right path, and help us all, Lord, to never forget you, to never put you on the back burner, but to walk in that in that zeal, in that that desire to know you each and every day, that I might know you and the power of your resurrection, the fellowship of your sufferings being made conformable under your death, In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. We're gonna have to reach Biden. No way. He's a useful

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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Home Bible Study

Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, lead our home Bible Study session in worship and teaching the Word of God. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes released on Tuesdays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.

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