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Okay. We're good. It's weird, Alright. Live from Bremerton. It's Monday night. Calvary Chapel of Bremerton, little bible study on Facebook. Welcome, Facebook. Alright. We will pray. Let's pray. Father, thank you so much for Rob and Vicky opening their home and the nice meal we're able to have and the coconut cream pie, Lord. It's awesome. And cookies. And thank you for the carbs, Lord. Thank you for the nice fires here to keep us warm. Beautiful fresh air, and thank you for this gorgeous evening. This time that we can study through the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 21 tonight. And Lord, we just thank you the Lord that as so many people are saying today, they'll never forget. Lord, I pray that we as a nation would never forget you, never forget the cross, that this do in remembrance of me, you said, Lord. And I pray more and more that those of us that call ourselves Christians, Lord, would come back unto you and never forget, never never be in that place of lukewarmness, but be on fire and excited, Lord, as so many prophecies being fulfilled. And just bless tonight, help us, Lord, as we worship you and study your word. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. Lord, I lift your name on high. Lord, I love to sing your praises. So glad you came to save us. You came from heavens. Were to show the way from the earth to the cross my dead to pay from the cross to the grave from the grave to the sky lord I lift your name on high lord I lift your name on high lord I love to I'm so glad you came to save You came from heaven to earth to show the way from the earth to the cross. My dad to pay From the cross to the grave, from the grave to the sky. Lord, I lift your name on high. You came from heaven to earth to show the way from the earth to the cross my from the cross to the grave from the grave to the sky lord I lift your name on high lord I lift your name on high Amen. There's a new song renewed, but it's not new. It's old, but it's new today. That our god reigns the lord reigns the lord reigns the fire goes before him and burns up all his enemies hills melt like wax at the presence of the lord at the presence of the lord the lord all reigns reigns Amen. That was fun. Haven't done that one in a long while. More than yesterday, I need you more. More than words can say, I need you more. I than yesterday I need you more than words can say I need you more than ever before I need you more than the air I breathe more than the song I'd sing more than the next heartbeat more than anything and lord as time goes by I need you lord for more than the air I breathe more than the song I'd sing more than the next heartbeat We're to we're going to Amen. Praise the lord. And I will worship you with all of my heart. And I will worship you with all of my mind. And I will worship you with all of my strength for you're my Oh, ready? Well, thank you. Okay. We are in Jeremiah 21 on this nine eleven. Ain't it great to be able to study God's word? Amen. Alright. Let's pray. Father, thank you so much for the sweet time of worshiping you, Lord. Thank you for the fellowship that we're enjoying, the food, the the time of prayer. And, Lord, we lift up, Karen Menard with her surgery today. We pray that she's recovering well. Lord, we lift up Jason, over at Harborview. God, we pray that he continue to improve. Thank you that, Robin said he's gonna be home in a couple weeks, and we thank you for that, Lord. What a blessing that is. And, we pray for others that have been sick, are under the weather, and we pray, Lord, that you would bring your healing touch upon their bodies. Thank you for all the miracles this past year, people that have been healed. And, just pour out your holy spirit tonight and teach us, Lord, to edify and build us up, strengthen us. And, Lord, give us ears to hear. Give us hearts to apply these truths. Undergird our families. Keep your hedge of protection about those we love, Lord. Draw them all under yourself. Keep them, Lord. Keep them keep that hedge of protection about them. Keep that garrison around them, Lord. And help us to get the finish line, Lord. Help us to finish well in these last days. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Alrighty. Last week in chapter 20, Jeremiah was indicting the nation, and he was letting them know how bad things were going to get. And it's not a very popular message. It's not a message that people like to hear. And and he Pasher, this guy named Pasher in chapter 20 verse two, smote Jeremiah and put him in stocks and, you know, beat on him and stuff. And and Jeremiah basically said, you know, I don't I don't wanna speak in your name anymore, God, if this is what happens. You know, these these cotton candy messages that these false prophets are given, and the doctrines of demons, and soft selling Christianity, and, you know, your best life now. You know, those guys don't go through anything like this, but I'm just trying to tell them the truth, the word that you give me, and and look what it gets me. It gets me beat up and, you know, and eventually, he's gonna get thrown into a dungeon and and a whole mire in the whole thing. But he says in his heart, I'm not gonna speak in your name anymore, and the word of God is like a fire burning within him in in verse nine, and shut up within his bones, and he could not forbear. And he cursed the day he was born and all that last week. And and so the name Pasher means prosperity, and the prosperity gospel sells. A whole lot of people love the prosperity gospel. But to let people know of the cross, to let people know the cost of following Jesus is to deny yourself, take up your cross, follow him is not a real popular message today, prophecy, nor is the return of Christ. For some reason, want Jesus to wait. They want to enjoy their lives a little bit longer, and, they got more goals and things they want to buy and do and all that. And, the idea that that there'd be cataclysmic events in our lifetime, you know, Lord, defer that. Let that happen in a different lifetime. Let us enjoy everything and and live a ripe old age and then just continue to enjoy the prosperity, you know, being blessed blessed by you and all. And so prophetically speaking, it's not doom and gloom. It's we're talking about Jesus coming back and the stage is being set for for him to come back. And and here, in chapter 21, you you look future twenty years later, and Zedekiah, king Zedekiah, Jeremiah's prophesying concerning king Zedekiah. And twenty years later, king Zedekiah is gonna be about thirty months away from being taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar and his armies of Babylon. A siege is gonna be put around the city on January 2088 to July eighteen five eighty six BC. May, Nebuchadnezzar succeeds in in subduing Jerusalem. And and the people are just obstinate. If they would surrender and go out and out of the city and surrender to the Chaldeans that are there, they would live. But if they're going to persist in fighting and resisting with Jeremiah the prophet saying, you know, you're going to lose with the sword, the pestilence, and famine, the siege and such, you know, you could you could you could live. And Zedekiah, he tries to escape, and we'll see that in chapter 39. And he tries to, you know, get on his horses and escape, but he's caught and he's brought back. And then his eyes his his sons, all of his family members are killed right before his eyes. And then after they're all killed, then his eyes are plucked out. His eyes are taken out, then he's taken back to Babylon, you know, as a as a trophy of of judgment, a trophy of victory for the Babylonians. And so, it says in verse one, the word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord when king Zedekiah sent unto him, Pasher, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Messiah, the priest, saying, inquire, I pray thee of the Lord for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us. If so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all of his wonderful works, then he may go up from us. And so word of chapter 20 has gotten to has has resonated with king Zedekiah. And he's looking back and he's thinking of a time when the Northern Kingdom, the 10 northern tribes were subdued in July. And and then later, the Assyrians who were prominent, who were dominant during that time came against Jerusalem, came against the city in the time of Hezekiah and one angel killed a 185,000 of the invading force and all. And God spared even though there's 40 some fortified cities surrounding Jerusalem that were destroyed. When the Syrians came to put a siege upon Jerusalem, it didn't work. God intervened. So Zedekiah is hoping for that. He's hoping that all that Jeremiah said is not gonna come to pass that somehow, you know, they'll have a miracle of God's intervention. And but that's not gonna happen. And and so now this passer, it says, came unto Jeremiah from the Lord when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pasher, the son of Mel Mel Melkiah. This is a different Pasher, a different Pasher than the one in chapter 20. The one in chapter 20 was from the sixth tenth order of priests, and this is from the fifth order of priests, and you can check that out in first chronicles 24 verse nine. This pasture is of the fifth order. Now also, if we turn to to let's see here. 59 no. Yeah. Let's Vicky's got it. Jeremiah. Jeremiah 59. There is no 59. No. Nine must not be reading my notes right. Oh, Isaiah 59. There we go. Isaiah fifty fifty nine. That's why I put my notes out so you guys can help me. But I don't think it's even Isaiah. I think it's here in Jeremiah what I'm looking for. It's 381 through 4. 38. 381 through four. Jeremiah. I'm going to get my eyes my eyes to read my notes. So 381 through four. Now watch this. Watch this. There's more than one Pasher. It's a popular name and means prosperity. Then Shepheliah, the son of Mata, and Gedeliah, the son of Pasher, and Juchal, son of Shemaiah and Pasher, the son of Malchija. So a different Pasher because the Pasher in chapter 20 was the son of Imr in the sixteenth order. And this is the Pasher that we read about in chapter 21, the son of Micaiah, who is of the fifth order in first let's see here. First Chronicles 24 verse nine, you see that of the fifth order. So those kind of things are important. Right? They're important that we get to the right guys even though it may not mean a whole lot, but as students of the bible, we want to make sure we're students of the bible. And you can use that one day. One day somebody will say, well, pastor from chapter 20, look at him. He say, in chapter 21. Say, no, that's not the same guy. And who's ever teaching is gonna go, what? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I you know what? Let me show you. Yeah. And so you're gonna get them. You're gonna say, and they're gonna ask you. They're gonna say, where did you learn that from? And you're going to be able to tell them. Right? Okay. So bible trivia there. I mean, mean, I mean, look at it. We can be in kindergarten. We can be in nursery school and treat going to church like nursery school where the pastor insults your intelligence and teaches you smooth things, soft cotton candy things. And when life gets tough, you don't have the ability to cope or to deal with anything because you haven't been taught the truth. You haven't been taken through the bible. And it's the word of God that strengthens your faith, it strengthens you, and you're able to see the way Jeremiah was treated and not have it cause you to melt down when you're treated the same way. You can see the way Jesus was treated and Saul of Tarsus and on and on and on all through the Bible, righteous men and women who are mistreated, unjustly treated. And I'm thinking in terms of the people that are caught here in this city, we the people, the common people, that have to go along with corrupt, you know, criminal government because Zedekiah is a criminal, because his priests are criminals. We the people get stuck because the globalists and our elected leadership are waging war against God. And by waging war against God, we're gonna lose. I mean, we, the people, are gonna get caught in the middle. And when everybody is citing Romans 13 to be passive and to give in, that's not true. Government's for the preservation of good. They're supposed to do their job to preserve that which is good. They're not supposed to be fighting against God. Fighting against God is a losing proposition. And the insanity that we're watching is the world, led by the globalists, are in war against God. It's the devil, the principalities, and powers are inspiring these guys, intoxicating them with billions of dollars, and the billions of dollars gives them the technology. And the the the pride is over the top to try and war against God. And in that light, there's so many people who are caught in the middle and are going to suffer as a result thereof of a very, very poor leadership. And so it's very difficult to watch people be like zombies, to be passive toward evil, to not be students of prophecy, not be students of God's word, to be aware. Because all it would take is truth to dispel their lies. So these guys are so at war with God, they're blaming the climate. You know, they're using the climate with all their all their lies. They're lighting all the forests on fire. They're they're lying through their teeth. They they a false flag of nine eleven. They bombed our own buildings, pulled our own buildings down in its footprint. They rolled out the Patriot Act right after it. How did you do that? How did you get warp speed jab ready just in a month? Know? You plan this, you know? So crisis reaction solution and we're caught in the middle and there's very, very few people like us who love the truth and want to know the truth. And so I want to know which pastor we're talking about. Right? It means something to me to try and get at the truth. I thank the Lord that there's other teachers that I'm able to read and glean from, and they're able to point this out for me. I didn't come up with it. I but I'm a student. So in the studying of God's word, the Lord reveals these things. And people have gone before me with the King James Bible, for instance, and with the Strong's Concordance and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. All these study tools are keyed to the King James Bible when men didn't have televisions, when they didn't have all these electronics, and they painstakingly went through the word of God. They learned Greek. They learned Hebrew. They were students of God's word, and they they went every jot and tittle through the bible, translating it into English, and giving us these study helps that we can use so that we too can study to show ourselves approved under God, rightly dividing the word of truth. Right? And so, I want to be a man of God's word. If Kathy and my children, if they say, hey, Rick just died and alright, what was Rick like? Well, Rick had a lot of flaws, but one thing about Rick is he is a man of God's word. From the time he got saved to the time he died, he was a student of God's word. That's so incredibly important for me because if God gives us his word, I don't want it to just lie dormant. I wanna continue to grow and learn. And so all these years that I've walked with the Lord, I had great pastor and pastor Chuck to sit under and so many others, I've never arrived. I've never reached a point where I think I know. It's a constant pursuit of continuing to learn. Every single week, Kathy gets ready for Sunday school. Every single week, we get ready for Sunday and Monday and devotions and bible studies. I was listening to bible studies today. You know, I learned I learned things today, you know, before I came here. And always listening to bible studies. I'm always willing to listen to other teachers of God's word. Kathy and I can shut them off and within thirty seconds, if it's if it's just fluff. We can smell fluff. We can hear fluff so quick. But if a guy is actually saying something, actually has something to say, we'll drive in the car and we'll listen for hours and we'll do another one and another one and another one. And so, we've never grown tired of God's word. We've never grown tired of learning And the only way you're gonna stop your growth is if you think you've arrived. If you think you know everything. As long as you're teachable, the holy spirit will continue to teach you and to open the scriptures. So, in Mark four, it says that if you're faithful with the light, the revelation of God illuminating your heart and opening the scripture, if you're faithful with that illumination, that light, that that, I just learned that, then he's gonna give you more. But if you're unfaithful with it, now you're gonna have what, Vicky? A rested state of development. You're not gonna grow. You're not gonna grow. You're going to be arrested. You're going to it's it's it's like you're stuck. So you meet these Christians, and they've been Christians for forty years. And they're still babes in Christ. They're just babies. And it's all experiential and emotions and, you know, all this, you YouTube profits and stuff. And and for us, we've we've got to be very patient. Paul said, I couldn't give you any meat. I had to give you milk. Right? Because you were carnal, because you're babes in Christ. So we got we got to be careful. But one thing I know about babies, when I look at little Ruthie, she's hungry and she loves her milk. Right? And she'll she'll go crazy to get that milk. And so milk is good. Milk is good. And then she's gonna gravitate towards solid food. She wants solid food, you know. And so the appetite is good. If you have appetite, if you're here tonight, you have an appetite for the word of God, that's good. This is maybe not as exciting as a three hour movie, But you know, you can watch the movie anytime, right? Okay. So what interests? Are What are you interested in? I love the word of God. So the word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent unto him, Pasher, the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Messiah, the priest saying, inquire, I pray thee of the Lord for us. Do you need do you need me to inquire of the Lord for you? You're call me and say, pastor Rick, I got a problem. Can you pray for me? Can you can you can you please pray for me? Do you think I have the ring, the special ring of the pope? You want to kiss my ring? Do I got the calling on? Am I the only one that hears from God? Am I going to lord over you and tell you what to do? I'm going use the word of God when I speak. The word of God needs to resonate with you. You need to listen to the word of God. Allow God to speak to you to direct. And through prayer, I can join you in prayer. I can ask you to pray for me and Cathy. Right? Because we're in a war, right? From that stance. But you have just as much right to access to access God's throne of grace as I do. I mean, I could do a power trip on you and I could say, well, for a rib eye, I'll pray with you. Right? Right? I I could make a whole hierarchy, a way that you could get indulgences and pray your family out of purgatory and make a whole system of make milking you for money and act like I'm the heavy. Hey, he's the heavy. He's the grand poobah. You gotta go through him. I mean, why doesn't Zedekiah have his own relationship with the Lord and inquire of the Lord? But he does respect Jeremiah. He does respect that Jeremiah listens to the Lord. And so, from that standpoint, I can see that. I've asked pastor Chuck to pray for my daughter Jessica when her back was curved with kyphosis and I was asking others to pray and I was a, you know, a younger Christian. And I don't I don't feel the need to do that anymore. I don't feel the need to look for somebody that has access to God that can pray for me and my family. I can just go direct. You can go direct. I don't have I don't no nobody has any greater access to the Lord than you and I. He's no respecter of persons. Can I put it that way? God is no respecter of persons. In fact, if I want someone to pray for me, I think it should be one of my grandkids. I think God's more inclined to listen to a child, to a child's prayer, than he is to us adults who are trying real hard to choose our words, you know, and everything. Benny Benny Hinn, yeah. Benny Hinn will wave his coat, you know. Wave his coat and ask for money, you know. And so, he's asking for Jeremiah, saying, inquire, I pray thee of the Lord for us. For Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. This is heavy. God's raised up Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar is gonna be the first of four world empires that are gonna dominate the world. And this is the time of the Gentiles. Now, we are in Luke 21, we talk about the times of the Gentiles when we're in Romans 11 on Sunday, we're going to look at until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And that's speaking of the rapture. But the times of the Gentiles is speaking of dominant global world empires. And so we've talked about this of the Babylonians then given into the Medes and the Persians with Cyrus, given over to the Greeks with Alexander the Great, then given over to the Romans and the Roman being divided East West and continuing for a period of time. But the rebirth of the Roman Empire is the global government of Daniel two and Daniel seven. The rebirth of the 10 toes, the 10 crowns, the 10 kings that's gonna be representative in Romans excuse me, Revelation thirteen and seventeen. And and so this dominant world power, we're gonna see a dominant world power in the future that is gonna bring the whole world under the tyranny of the antichrist. So Nebuchadnezzar, if you will, could be a type of antichrist, but Nebuchadnezzar gets saved, doesn't he? Nebuchadnezzar goes out and eats grass for seven years. Right? Seven years of eating grass in chapter four of Daniel until he knows that the God of heaven, right, is the one that is sovereign and ruler and gives the kingdom to whosoever he wills, you know. So be careful if you say, is this not great Babylon which I have built? The words are barely out of your mouth and you've lost your faculties and you're out eating grass. But at this point, Nebbe is being used by God as a blunt instrument, as an instrument of judgment against who? Against God's own people. So if God's going to do this to his own people, judge his own people, how much more people that aren't his people, right, who are disobedient unto him. And so, in second Kings eighteen seventeen, King Hezekiah got a reprieve in that the Assyrians weren't able to subdue him. So Nebbe is thinking, hey, along the same lines. And and so let's see here. What are you there? Isaiah fifty nine one and two. So behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that he cannot save, nor is there heavy that he cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you that he will not hear. So God isn't gonna hear Nebbe. I'm excuse me, Zedekiah. So Zedekiah, because of his sin, he doesn't have access to God. So we're talking about access. We're talking about there's access for the believer. The unbeliever has no access to God. Do you understand that? The unbeliever, the only prayer that God hears of the unbeliever is, Lord, save me. You don't have access. It comes with relationship. So King Zedekiah is correct in the sense that, hey, I don't have a relationship with God. My sins have separated me from God. And so I'm someone to pray for me from the sense to lead me to Christ. But he's not asking me lead to Christ. He just wants his problem fixed. He has no intention. He's there in John six for the Happy Meals. He has no intention of pursuing Christ for Christ. We're pursuing Christ with ulterior motives that we want the blessings that come and we're going see a whole lot of people fall away from the Lord because of that fact, because they begin to realize, alright, this season of prosperity in America is over, and inflation is such that I can barely put gas in my car, I can barely buy food, and things are really getting worse and worse. They're trying to give me synthetic meat and bugs, you know, what am I going to do? God, where are you? You know? And and they need the faith. They needed the faith, the simplicity of faith and trusting the Lord, you know, day by day. And so we're we're rich. Those that are poor are rich in faith because we've had nothing else or no one else to depend upon but Jesus. And so we're able to grow. And so his sins have separated him. He doesn't have that access, so he's going to ask for Jeremiah there. So deal with us according to all of his wondrous works that he may go up from us. So he's crying out for help. He's saying, hey. It's 911. Help. Help. We need help. And who are gonna call when you need help? Who are gonna call, Betty, when you need help? Kayla said Corey? Corey said both of us. There you go. I like that. I like that. I love your laugh. I love that. And I love the I love the love the jokes and all that. That's good. Call the cone heads. Call the There we go. So we wrote down some we wrote down 911. 911. Right? What's that mean, Jim? What are we saying with 911? If you need help, you call 911. Kathy's got it. She's smiling. She knows. It's Psalm 91 verse one. Right? All of Psalm 91. So who wants to read Psalm 91 on 911? All over 911 today on Facebook, everyone's saying, don't forget. Never forget. Never forget. Never forget. Alright? Now, is everybody in the church saying, never forget the cross. This do in remembrance of me, Jesus said. Don't ever forget the cross. Don't ever forget how I proved that I love you. Right? And we're inclined to think that God doesn't love us. Right? So who wants to read Psalm 91? Will. Jim will. He needs the microphone. I feel like reading. Alright. Do you got your reading voice? And who wants to read Psalm a 100 121? From whence comes my help. Okay. We'll have Sean there. And I posted this today on Facebook. Great places to go when you're feeling like you need help. Alright, sir. Jim Miller here. His wife's going to Hawaii. Those of you in Hawaii, she's going to Maui on Thursday to help with the relief effort in Maui. Good. This okay. Here we go. He didn't turn on the thing. Okay. There we go. Psalm 91. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress. My God, in him will I trust. Surely, he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flyeth by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and 10,000 at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most high thy habitation. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, and thou shalt dash thy foot against the stone. Lest thou dash thy foot against the stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder, the young lion and the dragon, shalt thou trample under feet. Because he have set his love upon me, therefore, will I deliver him, and I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him. With long life, will I satisfy him and show him my salvation. Amen. So the big relationship and the and the biggest issue is that of fear. Remember we quoted Oswald Chambers last week that when you fear God, you fear nothing else? Mhmm. But if you don't fear God, you fear everything else, like ninety nine point nine percent recovery from COVID. But because you don't fear God and you don't give him that rightful place in Psalm 91 where you run to him as your refuge, you're overwhelmed with anxiety and fear, and you don't know what to do, and you're making decisions, and, you know, you're going crazy. So fear is the issue. Joseph Goebel said if you get him afraid, you can get them to do anything. And so the key issue is is have faith. Don't don't be overwhelmed by fear. Run to the Lord. Alright. Psalm a 121. When you need help, from whence comes my help? I like that word, wince. Psalm a 121. God, the help of those who seek him. I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help. My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be removed. He who keeps, you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper. The Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil. He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth and even forevermore. So is there anything hard for God? Anything hard? Now from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. Right? The creator of the universe. Now why are we so inclined to want to call Joe Biden when we need help? We are not. Can Joe Biden help you? No. So we have some ice cream. Yeah. We get some ice cream. But, I mean, we're always looking we're always looking to human leadership for, you know, these these clowns to try and help us and vote another clown in, and somehow they're gonna fix things. I mean, we have access to the from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. We have access to the creator, you know. And if the church would dedicate ourselves to prayer in the spiritual battle that we're in, you know, think of the the magnitude of that of overcoming the darkness. You know? Using the weapon of just just prayer alone, appealing unto god to fight for us. All through COVID, I said, if we worship god and put him first, he'll fight for us. Right? But if you don't, if you try to do it yourself and call the Bidens and call the Fauci's and rely upon Trump and these guys, you're going to be played. You're going to wind up you're going to wind up having been played. And so today, I posted a video from Catherine Austin Fitz, and I really encourage all of you to listen to that video. She used to be in the government in Washington with the house of urban development, housing and urban development. And she was there during the time of the mortgage crisis and all the different scams and corruption that was taking place during that time. And she refused to go along with it. She became a target. And she had to learn how to navigate through being slandered and mistreated by our own government in the nineties. And she successfully came through it, but she learned an enormous amount of the inner workings and how that happens. And also with her background of banking and finance and the bankers. She's a Christian and she's able to explain today what's happening. And she described it in the video of the bankers have been trying, the globalist has trying for years and years and years, a couple hundred years to bring the tyranny that the devil wants over the whole population of this one world government, one world monetary system, one world religious system. And it's not until the technology is such as it is today that the bankers, the globalists are on the very verge of accomplishing this. And she described it as they already have three walls stalled around us and the last one is a central bank digital currency. If they pull that off, they succeed in putting us into this corral that we're not going to be able to get out of. And so it's very important to understand the fight we're in. Through prayer, she's advocating, you know, be in prayer. And it's a spiritual war, she keeps saying in the video. The churches and such. But a lot of practical things like Nancy, you know, freeze drying food and gardens. How are going to circumvent the globalist when they try to starve you out? You're going to have a garden. You're going to have chickens. How are you going to circumvent the globalist when they say your cash is no good? You're going to have to have local banks, local banks and a local means of bartering and currency and something that isn't a part of the whole globalist system. So she's very optimistic and I wrote on there salt and light, we're the resistance in the sense that as salt and light, we slow down the corruption. We slow down the putrification. But if the church is passive, the guy that was interviewing her, he talked about passivity. He said, well, when we were fighting the Germans, because a lot of what we're dealing with is like, you know, 1938, '39 there with the Germans going to war with the Germans. And he said, now if our boys would have come off of those ships to the beaches of Normandy and if they were shocked that the Germans didn't have a band and tables of food all set up for them and all, You know, how much resolve would they have in their heart to continue and be willing to lay down their life, you know, for what needed to be done. But he said the church is passive. The church is unwilling to engage the enemy in any way shape or form. Not through prayer, not through the word of God, not through truth, nothing. And so that's why our enemy is encroaching. Basically, we're in a trance. The world is in a trance. It's a strong delusion that the world is under, and many in the church are in that trance. And I believe the reason, Little Calvary Bremerton is, on fire and excited and filled with joy is because we're students of prophecy. It's that simple. We're students of prophecy. We are watching for the return of Jesus. And we're letting go of the world. And when you do that, you just recognize that Jesus is gonna fight for me. He's gonna fight for me. I don't I don't need to I don't need to fix all this. You know, I can't fix all this. But nor do I need to hide my head in the sand and attend the church that it's all feelings and and act like it's not happening. You know? So very, exciting, the times we're living in, the danger that's coming. Jeremiah is a prophet for forty years. People aren't listening to him for forty years. And now Zedekiah is realizing, I better listen. Is it too late? Is it too late for God to intervene? Is it too late for God to do something? And then he says, verse three, then said Jeremiah unto them, shall you say to Zedekiah, thus saith the Lord God of Israel, behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands. I'm going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your guys' hands. It doesn't matter what your military plans are, your nukes and all that sort of stuff. I'm going to discomfit you. I'm going to cause you to fail that are in your hands and which you fight against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who besiege you. So the siege is around them for thirty months. And in Lamentations, you can read the description that Jeremiah has of what took place during that siege. People were reduced to eating their own babies, cannibalism and such. And so outside the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of the city. So I'm gonna let them into the city. There's gonna be no escape. There's gonna be no escape from what's coming. And I will myself fight against you. I mean, our government is at war with God. The western nations are at war with God. They're fighting against God. It isn't just in the sixties removing prayer and and, you know, the bible from our schools. I mean, they're full blown fighting against God. They hate Christianity. They they are coming after us because we represent the Lord. They hate the word of God. They hate creation, the God of creation. They're making fun of Jesus left and right, these globalists. And making, you know, blasphemous claims and stuff. And so with an outstretched hand, with a strong-arm, even in anger and in fury and in great wrath. And so the fury of God's wrath is like a fire in Lamentations two verse four. It's like a fire. Once once the Lord unleashes his fury, his wrath, you know, who can stand? And so, Habakkuk cries out, you know, Lord, in your wrath, remember mercy. Lord, in your wrath, remember mercy. Because that once that wrath gets gone, that fire gets gone, the the forest fire, you know, how are you going to quench it? How are going to stop it once he start I mean, he's holding back. He's holding back. He's holding back. He's long suffering. But once that seal is opened in Revelation chapter six, there's no stopping it. There's no stopping it for seven years. You know? For seven years, God's gonna be pouring out his wrath upon a world that's rejecting his his son. And and right now, you know, he's holding back his wrath. We're in the time of grace. We're in the church age, and God's dealing with men according to grace, unmerited favor. He's calling whosoever will, you know, let them come. But there's a point in time after the rapture where a period of time could be a gap there before the signing of the peace treaty, but God's gonna change his his management, his administration. The way that he deals with men is gonna be a time of Revelation six under 19 where he's pouring out his wrath. And the seal and the trumpet and the bold judgments are gonna be poured out. The midpoint of the tribulation period from twelve hundred sixty days in on the on the chapter 11, the midpoint when the two witnesses are executed and then and then rise from the dead, you know, three days later, 3.5 later. From twelve hundred and sixty days after that is the great tribulation period. And the whole time is a time of wrath. Time of wrath all the way through. And you and I are not appointed under wrath. We're the bride of Christ. And that's that's a blessing there. The Lord is not condemning you and I. But we as Christians could be caught just as there are people that are gonna be caught in the city of Jerusalem who are innocent, so to speak. They're gonna be caught because of the nation as a whole is in rebellion against God. And so too we Christians Christians in China Christians in China were caught in the crosshairs of Mao Tse Tung and the communist. And being Christians didn't make it so that Mao left them alone. Instead, they were targets of Mao. He killed 60,000,000 of his own people. And you and I as a Christian with a communist takeover of America could be those that they execute. Now that's not the wrath of God. That's that's just evil. The evil of man that's happened all over the planet during the twentieth century. The the University of Hawaii, and I told you this many times, the University of Hawaii did a study of how many people were killed by their own government. 240,000,000 people, innocent civilians killed in the twentieth century, they call it democide. Not genocide, but democide. So if the Rockefellers fund Mao and China and starve out King Chiang Kai shek, who is a friend of the West, and they don't give him armaments or any gasoline or oil or any means of fighting of defending themselves, then it's basically a communist takeover of China with a one child policy, a beta test that the globalist stand back and watch since 1950, since the fifties. And the Christians that are there, they were waiting for the rapture. The rapture didn't come. And they were so frustrated. Well, we need to teach people that there's no guarantee of you and I being persecuted or murdered or killed. 6,000,000 Christians in the first two centuries were murdered. And all they did was say they're not going to pinch incense and say Caesar is Lord once a year. And so it cost them. And all throughout history, church history, there have been many, many, many, many people who have died as martyrs. Jesus said, you can be my witnesses. But the tribulation period is different. There's a there's a difference in that it's God's wrath being poured out. And so my heart goes out to the children. My heart goes out to my grandchildren and the children that are coming up on stage to do the pledge of allegiance. And I wanna apologize to them because we didn't hold the line. Because we can't protect them from these pedophiles. We can't protect them from these transgenders and this craziness that's going on. We're trying to protect them. We're doing the best we can. But we advocated our responsibility in the in the school boards and at the local level. And we've got to be really, really militant and diligent on point to make sure that in our community, we don't lose the parental rights of protecting our children. That the state doesn't usurp authority that's not theirs in arbitrarily determining they're gonna snatch your children, your grandchildren, sequester them, hide them from you, and then sex change them. I mean, you as a Christian, you shouldn't even put your kids in the public school to be even susceptible to that. Part of your defense, part of your protection should be, I'm not putting them in there. And you say, oh, well, I'm gonna put them in there because they're missionaries and I'm going to I'm going to teach them to say no to that, that you're a boy, you're a girl. Well, what what happens if they become confused? What happens if somebody confuses them? I wouldn't want to gamble. I wouldn't want to go down that route of evil, that that level of evil that they're trying to come against. And so, that's where my heart breaks is that if the church would be salt and light and preserve the culture, it would be a safer, more prosperous culture because God would bless. But if the church has lost its savior, it's good for nothing but to be trodden under the foot of men. And so, Jerusalem is ripe for judgment. And God has waited years and years and years calling them, sending them prophets, calling them under repentance, but they just won't they won't listen. And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of great pestilence. So there's no vaccine for that. And afterwards, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants, and the people and such as are left in the city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. And he shall smite them with the edge of the sword. He shall not spare them, neither have have them live nor have mercy upon them. And so turn to Jeremiah 39. 39. Thirty nine five through seven. But the Chaldeans army pursued after them, meaning Zedekiah snuck out a secret way rather than surrendering to Nebuchadnezzar, he thought he could escape. And many of them were trying to escape to to Egypt, and that's not even gonna work. After them, and overtook Zedekiah in the Plains Of Jericho. And when they had taken him, they brought him to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hema where he gave judgment upon him. Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah and Riblah before his eyes. Also, the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah. Moreover, he put out Zedekiah's eyes. So it's the last thing that Zedekiah saw before he went blind. Yeah. The execution of everything he loved, everything that was good in his life. Right? And bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon. And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. Then Nebuchadnezzar, the captain of the guard, carried away captive into Babylon, the remnant. So you're gonna have like Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, Benno, all these guys, of the people who remained in the city and those who fell away who fell with him, the rest of the people who remained. So when you talk about when you talk about a triumph, a triumphal entry of Jesus, In this triumphal entry of King Nebuchadnezzar's military, they're bringing trophies, trophies of conquest. And one of the trophies of conquest they're bringing is a chain around king Zedekiah of Judea around his neck with his eyes plucked out. And they're rolling him into the city of Babylon. Right? And when Jesus walks into Jerusalem in his triumphal entry, you and I are going to be walking in with him. And Paul said, we're always triumphing. To some were a savor unto life, and to some were a savor unto death. So the priest would take this incense as they're as they're moving into the city. And to some, it's the smell of victory for those who believe. But for Zedekiah, it's the smell of defeat. And so we we know that the Lord Jesus wins. And what a blessing that is when he makes his triumphal entry, you know, into Jerusalem. And so, Zedekiah, you're gonna lose. Zedekiah, your your time is up. And just as we saw with Belteshazzar in Daniel chapter five, your time is up. Cyrus is here with Darius, and they're coming in under the Levied Gate. And this night, your kingdom is taken from you and divided to the Medes and the Persians. And so, it can happen to anybody. So Zedekiah is delivered and verse eight. Now, the message is unto the people. The first part of the message, verse seven verses was the king Zedekiah, now to the people. And under this people, thou shalt say, thus saith the Lord, behold, I set before thee the way of life and the way of death. Life is not complicated, is it? I'll show you the way of life and not the way of death. So in Genesis two verse seven, who wants to read Genesis two verse seven? I'll show you two trees, Corey. Two trees. What were the two trees in the garden there for Adam and Eve to choose from? The tree of and evil. I mean, evil and good. The tree of life? The tree of life and the tree of death. The tree of knowledge of good and evil. Right? So Genesis two verse seven, two seventeen. Two seventeen? Alright. I'll read it. No Brett. Now you guys are too slow. You're falling asleep. You're falling asleep. I gotta say it five times. You guys ready? People are waiting to hear. Shannon's there. Shannon's got it. Alright. Let's hear it. It's 217. 217. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it. For in the day that thou eatest eatest thereof, thou shall surely die. And so you have a choice of the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Which one did Adam and Eve choose? They chose poorly. So death came, right? The day of eat of it, you shall surely die. So he's saying here, you got a choice here. We all have a choice. Tree of life, tree of death, right? And so the Lord in His grace and His mercy, spite of Adam and Eve, our first federal head, Adam falling, the seed of the woman, the virgin born son of God, Jesus would come and be our the last Adam, and He would do it right. And He would go to the cross. He would die upon the tree. Right? The tree of Calvary. But the angels guarded the tree of life so that Adam and Eve in their sinful condition couldn't live forever in their degenerate, fallen condition. So there's hope. If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation. The old things are passed away. All things are become new. But life comes down to choices. What did Jeram what did Joshua say? Choose you this day who you will serve. Right? As for me and my husband, we will serve. We're gonna serve the Lord. Right? And so every day is a choice. You can live according to the life of the spirit or the life of the flesh. The life of the spirit is life. Jesus said, I come that you might have life and that more abundantly, the life of the spirit or the life of the flesh. The flesh brings forth death, it brings forth corruption. If Kathy and I, being married forty two years, if we decide to live in the flesh, it will destroy our marriage. If we indulge our flesh and give in to the fleshly appetites, our old ademic nature, we will destroy all that's good in our life that God is building, that God is blessing. But if we choose to walk in the spirit, we won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. And there's a battle going on between the flesh and the spirit. And every single day, I have to choose. I'm told in Romans six that sin shall not have dominion over me. I'm looking at Romans seven, and the things I do wanna do, I don't do. The I don't wanna do, I do. And so there's a battle between the flesh and the spirit, you know, in chapter seven. But when I get into chapter eight, and I live the life of the spirit, then I overcome the impulses of the flesh. Then I'm able to have victory over the flesh and I don't need to give in and be a slave to the flesh anymore. That's the beauty of being a Christian. Is that salvation is three tenses. I'm saved. If we define the word salvation, the word saved, it speaks of deliverance and healing. And it's in three tenses. You tell me what tenses they are. We're saved, we're delivered from what in the past? Of sin. Past penalty of sin. So at the cross, Jesus said it is finished. Tetelestide paid in full. Never again, there's no condemnation of you. There's no wrath upon you. You're saved. You're in the ledger, paid in full. You're never going to answer for any sin. Right? In the past tense. Paid in the past, you've been saved from the past penalty of sin. The past penalty of sin is the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. In the present tense, you're delivered, you're healed, you're saved from what? Present world. Power of sin. Power of sin. Sin shall not have dominion over you in Romans six. In the future tense future tense, you're saved from, in the future, from the very presence of sin. You're going to be perfected. You're in Romans you're in first Corinthians 13. You're gonna you're gonna when you see him, when you see him face to face, you're gonna know even as you were known. And we're gonna be perfected in him. And so that's the hope that we have that we're not gonna carry around this old Adamic nature, this carcass that we have to carry this old man on into eternity. There's a day where we already have a taste, we're experiencing the victory. We know when we yield to the spirit, when we walk in the spirit, when we you know, there's life. And the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, you know, and the adjectives that describe that love. And so we we we experience God's peace, the joy, the love, the temperance, the self control, all these areas of the life of the spirit that far is far superior than the life of the flesh. The thief comes not but to steal, to kill, and to destroy. That's the devil. That's his strategy against you. But Jesus said, but I've come that you might have life. So that's the that's the quantity. That's the eternal life. And that more abundantly, the quality of life. So not just quantity, I've come that you might have life, eternal life, but eternal life is a quality of life. It's the life of the spirit more abundantly. Alright. So there we go. Okay. So we got two trees. You got choices. And you're either for him. Right? You're either for him or what? No in betweeners. No in betweeners. That's why I love COVID so much. That's why I love what's happening so much. I'm so tired of Bremerton Christians. Bremerton Christians that attacked coach Joe Kennedy to the point that when he came back to the ball field, they didn't even let him be partake of the team meetings or team meal. Why is he supposed to stay? He's a hero. He's a hero of the faith. Christians are mad at him. How could you be mad at a guy praying? You're tolerating transgenderism in your schools. You're not outraged at any of that stuff, but you're gonna you're gonna demonize a godly man that kneels down to pray and lead your men in prayer, and then he comes back for one day, and he's ostracized? He's demonized? Where's the where's the support of the church in this community? Crazy. It's a crazy community. It's just like and I'm so sick of it. And that's why I love COVID because it separates the sheep from the goats. All of them that take the money, all of them that shut down, all of them that give into it again, you can identify clearly Jesus is not essential. We're not gonna sing. We're not gonna worship. We're not we're not gonna, you know, we're not gonna meet anymore. Why? Why aren't you? And then they got all their reasons. It's because I'm loving my neighbor. It's because I'm obeying Romans 13. Yeah. All down the list. And you know what it really is? Everybody's been bought off. Everybody's incentivized. The hospitals, the doctors, the nurses, the churches, the businesses are incentivized to go along with the scam. And I love it. Because if you don't go along, you stand out. And you get kicked out of restaurants because you don't wear the mask. Because you keep the church open. Because you sing. And I love it. I I just I flat out love that. Finally, it's not all gray anymore. It's black and white. You're either for him or you're against him. Right? And and it's going to heat up. It's going to get even more. It's going to cost even more to to hold the line than to be a Christian. They're going to up the ante. Jim was telling me that Steve Quail tonight, there's an article where the government's going to fund and pay people to turn in people like you and I. They're gonna come to our churches and they're gonna turn me in for hate speech maybe. Because maybe I said something about, oh, BGTP plus, you know. And do you think I'm gonna you think I'm going be muzzled? Do you think I'm going hold back? And and you know what? I don't I do not single out any group and pick on them. Anytime I go down that road, I always include me, I always include you as adulterers, as murderers, as thieves, as sinners. The difference is we're not trying to normalize our sin. We're not trying to take our sin and say, hey, this is normal behavior. That's where I plant my feet and stand against the lies. I have to stand against the lies because if I don't, then some within the audience are gonna start to think that it's love, his tolerance of evil. That God just winks at sin. Pretty soon, and I always try to get the shock value. I try to get get people shocked so they'll stop. And years ago, said, what are going to do when they come for your kids? And they treat me like I'm a wackadoodle. They're never going to come for our kids. He's a wackadoodle. Well, what are they doing now? Oprah and the rest of them are saying it's good for kids if it's done right. That's what she's saying. It's good for the children if pedophilia is done right. And so they're trying to come up with their maps. What what does map stand for? Something attracted persons. They don't like being called pedophiles anymore. Minor attracted. Minor attracted persons. Yeah. They don't even want the stigma of being pedophiles anymore, which used to be labeled in the cycle cycle, you know, psychology as a as a mental illness. So so to homosexuality. So you go from Romans one, now you gotta normalize the aberrant behavior. You gotta normalize it within society. So the devil knows and the communist know, it's called demoralization. You're demoralizing. What makes America great? The churches are ablaze. They're immoral people. How do you defeat America? Demoralization. You bring out the pornography. You bring out all of the licentiousness just as Balaam. Balaam said, you can't go directly after the children of Israel. You can't curse them directly. But if you introduce the Midianidish women and you get the men to start committing adultery, idolatry, God will judge them. That's the that's the Balaam teaching. And and so that's what's happened with the bunnies, the playboy bunnies in the sixties, the sexual revolution, the demoralization of America, the breakdown of the home, the breakdown of morality that's the underpinnings of our culture. Hey, Betty. Yeah. They're they're trolling for us. We're being trolled. They're putting bait out when we're online, and they're listening. Right. Right. There. That was not even on my mind, but it was, you know, And they're and they're going a step further. They're they're taking Christians, Christian leaders particularly, and they're hacking into their emails, their website, you know, their their hard drive, planting planting child pornography and stuff, you can't you cannot prove your innocence once they take and are able to hack in and put all these files and all these stuff, you know, and then make it public and totally wipe you out. How do you come back from that, you know, as a Christian? So it's going to be real interesting in the future there, the way that they are able to take us down. Catherine Austin Fitz, she'd mentioned along the lines of what Whitney Webb was talking about where these politicians have handlers. And she used the word, it was a d word of where they gain control of you. And as you work for the government, you come against them. It was a d word, but it was the same concept, the same thing of come on the politicians have handlers. And the handlers handle these politicians that have been compromised at Epstein Island and all over. And so the pedophilia that they're involved in, all they're doing, bank accounts, all their junk is there's a file. And that's what she talked about, there's a file. And that file is used to control you. You go off the reservation. What do they do if you're off the reservation? Then you're JFK and you're you're wiped out by LBJ and Bush. You know, you they said that JFK finally had a conscience, and he came out of his womanizing and all that. And he he was angry at the bankers, and he was angry at the military industrial complex, the war they wanted to have with Vietnam. And Eisenhower warned everybody with his speech, and JFK gets in there, and he's wanting to do something right. What he was doing was he was signing a bill to abolish the Federal Reserve. Well, that's what Catherine Austin Fitz and everybody wants now, abolish the bankers. The bankers are the ones BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, they're the ones trying to put the squeeze on everybody else. And he put that out there, and then he also was against the the funding and and the moving forward of the Vietnam war. And so what did they do with him? They executed him. And then his brother Bobby was gonna win. And if Bobby wins, then Bobby has access to all the files and let everybody know who is behind killing his his brother. So Bobby wiped out. Right? You know? And I believe even JFK junior would have won in New York against Hillary and probably would have gone on to be president, but they couldn't let that happen either. Right? And so when you see the Kennedy that's running now, you gotta wonder. Right? You gotta wonder if he's really legit or not. And so it's it's so interesting the way that that the devil brings this web, this wicked web. And and the only way you can you can defeat him is through prayer an awakening of people that stand for righteousness. It's not guns, it's simply information. There's an information war. And it's simply the truth. You get the truth out there and you expose their lies, and they have to back up. The governor of Hawaii, there's a little blurb today where he was he had to stop himself because he said, and then he backed off. And she goes, smart city? Smart city? You know, because he was describing what was going on there in Maui and what his objective and what he wants to do. And then he realized, oh, I better I better pull back because I'm I'm I'm letting him know, you know. Yeah. So so two trees, you got a choice. You're either for him or against him. He says, abide. So the Lord behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death. So there's a narrow way in Matthew seven, and there's a what? And the narrow way in Matthew seven is what? Very few shall Very few shall find it. Yep. Right? The broad way, many go in there at. Yeah. And so Enter through the narrow gate. The narrow gate. Right? Vicky's reading it. She's ready. From oh, anyway, I'm on it. I'm it. Her my notes. That's right. I'm prepared. Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Nice. And Matthew twelve twenty two through 30? Matthew twelve twenty two through 30. And then somebody else can read Matthew twenty one forty two through 44. So notice they're talking about falling. He says, he that abides in this city shall die by the sword and by famine and by pestilence. But he that goeth out and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live and his life shall be unto him for a prize. Now watch what Jesus said about those who fall upon that rock. Right? He's the rock. We saw him at we we could have kept reading in Matthew seven, his exhortation to build your life upon the rock. Right? He's a foolish builder, a good builder, a wise builder who builds his life upon the rock. Jesus said, upon this rock, I'll build my church, the gates of hell not prevail. And there's a foolish person that's a hearer of the word, not a doer. Right? And so here, you have a choice. If you fall, if you humble yourself, if you fall down to the Chaldeans, you're going live. But if you in your pride, you refuse to fall down to Jesus, that stone's going to come on you and ground you to powder in judgment one day. But if you fall upon Jesus now and you're broken, you know, with a godly soul that leads to repentance, then you're gonna live. You're gonna have eternal life. So let's see in Matthew twelve twenty two through 30. Matthew Matthew 12. Twelve twenty two through 30. Then the demon possessed man who is both blind and able to talk was brought to Jesus. Yield the man so that he could both speak and see. The crowd was amazed. Could it be that Jesus is the son of David, the Messiah? They wondered out loud. But when the Pharisees heard about their this miracle, they said, no wonder he can cast out demons. He he gets his great power from Satan, the prince of demons. Jesus knew their thoughts and replied, any kingdom at war with itself is doomed. A city or home divided among itself is doomed. And if Satan is casting out Satan, he is fighting against himself. He his own kingdom will not survive. And I am empowered excuse me, and I and if I am empowered by the prince of demons, what about your own followers? They can cast out demons too. So they will judge you for what you have said. When I am casting out demons by the spirit of God, then the kingdom, then the kingdom of God has arrived among you. Let me illustrate this. You can enter a strong man's house and rob him without first you can't enter a strong man's house and rob him without first tying him up. Only then can his house be robbed. Anyone who isn't helping me opposes me, and anyone who isn't working with me is actually working against me. So either for him or against him, it's the road to life or to death. And he's saying that the Pharisees were ascribing his power to cause a young boy to be delivered of a demon. They were saying it's it's through the power of the devil. It's through the power of Beelzebub. So he illustrates to them a kingdom divided against itself can't stand. Why would Satan cast out Satan? That's absurd. So today, people wanna be inclusive. They wanna include all religions. All religions, you know, lead to God. But Jesus doesn't allow that. You're either for him or against him. He says, I am the way, the truth, the life. No man comes with the father but by me. So the exclusivity of Jesus Christ for you and I, that's comforting because we don't need to look at all roads. We look at the narrow road. We're on that narrow road. It's only through Christ. Now why is salvation why is life only through Jesus Christ? How do we know that to be true? Why is that? Creation? Because the bible says it. The cross? Have any other guys ever died on the cross? Have any other guys ever said it? That they're God? Yeah. It's right there. Yeah. He rose again. He proved it because he rose from the dead. And he challenged his enemies, and he proved that he's the only way. He said, destroy this temple Yeah. And what? He said a wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign. Right? And the only sign they're going to get is what, Vicky? Sign of the prophet Jonah. Right? So he's authenticating the book of Jonah, the story of the whale swallowing Jonah and spitting Jonah out. Right? And Jonah spent three days, three nights in the belly of the fish. Right? So he's authenticating Kathy Sunday School class. Right? That story. In the in the colleges, they'll say, that's absurd. That's crazy. And we don't even struggle at it because a lot of you are submariners. Right? You're able to go on these submarines. Right? So we don't struggle at all with that. I mean, God is able to do whatever he wants. But the exclusivity, it makes people angry because not only do they not want Jesus to be the only way, now we're moving in a direction again, it's nothing new, of you will be as gods. Right. You're gonna be gods. We're never gonna die. Novol, Yuval, Harari, and Jared Kushner and them say, our generations figured out a way to live forever. That's a bold faced lie. So I would challenge them if I'm going to follow them, I would say, well, you know what, go out and be crucified, be buried, and raise yourself from three days and come back and talk to me. Know? Right? That's the only way. I mean, prove it. Talk's cheap. Alright. Matthew twenty one forty four through 44. K. She's got such a good reading voice. It's so nice to hear her read. Matthew 44. 21. Oh, sorry. Matthew twenty one forty four. And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind them into powder. So they talked about here, if you fall to the Chaldeans that besiege you, you shall live. So what Jesus is saying, if you fall upon me, the rock, and you're broken before me, and it brings you to repentance, you're gonna live. You're gonna live for eternity. But if you wait to judgment, judgment day, when I fall upon you, I'm gonna grind you to powder. So in Psalm a 118 verses 22 through 29, Jesus said the stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner. Right? And it's marvelous in our sight. Right? So that stone that was rejected is Jesus. He's the chief cornerstone. Right? And by rejecting him, they don't realize, but he's become the head of the corner. He's the chief cornerstone. And so we recognize he's the rock of all ages. Right? Amen. And he's the stone that the builders that they rejected. So fall upon Jesus and be saved. He says, verse 10, for I have set my face against the city for evil and not for good, saith the Lord. It shall be given into the hand of be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire. So it's a done deal. It can be burned with fire, and there's no going back from this. He that has the son, in first John five twelve, has life. He that has not the son doesn't have life. So it's real clear. You got to have the son. John three thirty six, you know, he that he that doesn't believe is condemned already. You're already condemned because you don't believe. And verse 11, and touching the house of the king of Judah say, so you you go in this from talking to directly to Zedekiah, to the people, and now to the house of Zedekiah, to his family members and such. Jeremiah has a message from God for them, the nobles and such. So hear the word of the Lord, you guys, oh house of David, thus saith the Lord, execute justice in the morning and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor. Thus my fury go out like fire and burn that none can quench it because the evil of your doings. And so the fire and the brimstone is going to come because of the corruption. Kathy, why don't you read Nahum one, six and seven? And That's our favorite. And then we're going to finish up. We'll have who else wants Galatians six, seven, and eight? Galatians six, seven, and eight? Okay, Steve. And then we've got Zechariah thirteen eight and nine. Okay. And who wants Romans eight thirty one? Eight thirty one? Marlene's got it memorized. She already knows that one. Alright. So Nahum so what he's saying here, this corruption here, this fury, this fire that's gonna burn. Nahum one six is judgment, Nahum one seven is the hope. Who could stand before the I can't I can't see. Who can who can stand before his indignation, and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. The lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who trust in him. So, Kathy, where are gonna go when you need help? The Lord is good. A stronghold. Nine one one. Right? He that abides in the shadow of the almighty. Right? We're gonna run to Jesus. That's where we're gonna run. Alright. And behold, I'm against thee, oh inhabitant of the valley. Romans eight thirty one, Marlene. Behold, I'm against thee, he's saying. What shall we say then if God before us, who can be against us? In verse one of chapter eight, there is now therefore no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. We're not subject under God's wrath. There's no fearful looking to a judgment for you and I because Jesus was already judged at the cross. Now think about that. All the sins that you've ever committed, all the sins that you will commit before you die, before you're raptured, all those sins were placed upon Jesus upon the cross of Calvary, and the father poured out his wrath. Jesus prayed in the garden, Father, if you're willing, remove this cup from me. The cup was the cup of wrath. So he's praying in the Garden Of Gethsemane if there's olive press pressing, sweating as it were great drops of blood. He prayed three times that there's any other way, let this cup pass from me, your wrath being poured out upon me. And three times he prayed, three times, not my will, but thy will be done. And so we see Jesus upon the cross of Calvary in Psalm 22, a thousand years before he went to the cross, fulfilling Matthew 27. My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? Why are thou so far from my roaring? Right? Eli, Eli, lama, sabachthani. And so at that moment, the father separated himself from his son. He that knew no sin became sin. The father pours out his wrath upon him fully just and punishing sin. He's a substitute for you and I. He's substituting himself to take upon himself the wrath that was due us so that we wouldn't have to suffer the wrath of God. That's why it's ludicrous for people to think that the bride of Christ would go into the tribulation to suffer, you know, the wrath of God. So he says, who say so this is what they're saying. So I'm against thee, oh, inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain, saith the lord. So I don't wanna be at war with god. I don't wanna be in rebellion to god against god. I don't wanna be like one of the politicians at war with god. That's craziness. You know? And he says, who say so this is what they're saying. This is the common common rebuttal to, you know, judgment that's coming. Who shall come down against us? All these Christians, they're nuts. There's no rapture. They're never gonna happen. You guys are crazy. There's no globalism. There's no taking down America. Everything's gonna continue as it always has. Who say, who shall come down against us or who shall enter into our habitation? So as much as many of the watchers, many people watching what's going on, swelling of foreign military age people in San Vicente, Mexico and all the immigration and the walls down and the infiltration. In California, they actually caught a Chinese, you know, biological lab in in California, and that nothing's been done about it. Nothing's been done. They were caught. The Chinese have an industrial building to take rats, to take mice, infect the mice, and then the mice were to go out and infect people. And they were caught, but it's not in the news, is it? And so just just so amazing how they think that and you try to tell people this stuff. You try to warn people. You try to let them know that, you know, there's treason. These are traitors. Your country's being you've been being sold out. And they keep saying, Donald Trump's gonna save us. Donald Trump's gonna save us. This election's gonna change everything. We're gonna get the right people, and we're gonna take it back. And and you're looking at them like, he had four years. What did he do? You know? Everything he did was switched in a moment. You know? And the other thing is the Republicans have no desire to fight against the Democrats in this next election to try and produce a a viable candidate. They have no desire. They they caved in with the January 6. They caved in with the stolen election. They have no desire. They're on the same team. So the thing I wanna remind people on 09/11, everyone's so angry at the Democrats. So angry at them. On 09/11, you have to remember. If you wanna remember, it was the Bush family. It was the Carlyle group that the Bush family is a part of, the Ben Lavin family that they put on planes to fly out of New York. It was the Bush. It was the Republicans on their watch that NORAD was shut down. None of the jets were able to go and intercept so called planes that were coming. It was on the Republicans' watch that nine eleven happened, and it's on the Republicans' watch that COVID happened. Do you understand that? And so don't get caught in that left right paradigm of Republican Democrat. It's called the uni party. They're one party, and their rhetoric and their talking back and forth to keep us confused and and keep us pit against each other and thinking that somehow we can fix it with a political means, but it's a spiritual problem. Until the church wakes up and the church exposes the evil and stands against the evil, we're going to continue to see people in the trance. They're in a trance. They're like zombies following, you know, whatever the news says on, you know, on the television. Alright. So but I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings. Galatians six, seven, and eight. Punish you according to the fruit of your doings. You reap what? God is not. Galatians six seven excuse me. Galatians six seven and eight. Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of his flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. So number one, don't be deceived. Somehow we think it's never going to happen, the hammer is never going to fall, that we're going to get away with it. Moses said your sin will find you out. Right? So be not deceived. So people love to use karma today. No, we don't use to use karma. Let's use the word of God. Whatsoever man sows, that he also reap. So you have the way of life, the way of death. You sow to the flesh, you're going to reap death. You're going to reap corruption. Right? You sow to the spirit, you're going to reap life. So it's very important to sow to the spirit. How do you sow to the spirit, church? To be in God's word. What else? Are you in God's word? You have a choice. You have a choice. You can sow to the spirit or sow to the flesh. Alright? The TV can be used for good if there's good programming to sow to the spirit through the eye gate ear, eye and ears and all that. The phone can be as good. Tonight on Facebook, 20 people are listening to the word of God out there. Right? If they're listening, it can sow to their spirit and build them up. But if they're watching some bad stuff, doing some bad stuff, whatever, then it sows to the flesh and you're going to reap corruption. Corruption means you're going to be separated from God. You're going to be, you know, in the flesh, there's a there isn't as a Christian, I'm talking about Christians, when we're in the flesh, there's a separation of fellowship with God. I'm not walking in fellowship. But if I confess my sin, agreeing with the Holy Spirit, he's faithful and just forgiving me of my sin to cleanse me of all unrighteousness. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, continually cleanse the man of all sins, so I get fellowship. Right? So to sow to the spirit, I need to be in the word. I need to be a worshiper. I need to be in fellowship. Right? So don't neglect the assembling yourself together as a matter of some is as you see the day of the Lord approaching. So sometimes I go agro and I really make fun of people that can't attend church. Don't I? I make fun of them, don't I? Because there's no excuse. There's no excuse. It's vacation time. I get it. But there's no excuse to be to be a bedside Baptist every week. Right? Even though you can watch it and you can do all that, I mean, it's much better to gather together. Right? I mean, pretty soon, you're not even gonna need a pastor teaching if that's the attitude. You can just pull up YouTube and get an AI, you know, statue to give you sermons. Right? Probably much better sermons than can give. But there's a dynamic, the dynamic of the holy spirit when we, the church, gather together. Your gifts are not able to be exercised to people if you're a part of Bedside Baptist. But if you get out of your bed and get to church, you can pray, you can worship, you can minister to one another. And it's only one day a week, you know? It's like it's like and then and then Monday night, if you can't make it Sunday, come Monday. And I'm thankful for Facebook, the people that are watching all that. But the point is, sow to the spirit. Sow to the spirit, you won't reap. You know, you watch people drift. You watch people get so busy during the week and families, you know, getting so busy and Saturdays and all that. And they can't make it to church. The kids are sick. They're tired. People are tired. They're sick. They work all this sort of stuff. And you look at their schedule and you say, all those excuses. Well, I told you this a million times. Get ready on Saturday. Get your clothes washed. Take your bath. Once a week, take a bath. You know? Saturday night bath. Get your hair done. Get your clothes out. Set them out. Get excited. You know? If you know we're gonna be in Romans 11 this week, read Romans 11 ahead of time. Get your heart right. Get to bed early. Get up early. Pray. Start to intercede for the church service and the people that are gonna come. Sow to the spirit. Don't act like it's an offshoot, like it's a oh, it's know, you're going have to make an effort. You're you're going to have to seek. Seeking ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. So more and more, we're going to see people falling away. More and more, we're going to see people succumb to the pressure they're under and fall away. And so we want to be those who continue, who are faithful and ready to minister to those who are going to come back. And we got to have something to give them. And if we're not sowing to the spirit, we got nothing to give them. So you have to first receive before you can give. And I can't emphasize it enough. So that's one of my and for anybody that's questioning it, you're wrong. I'm right. Church used to be Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, every week. One man esteems one day above another, another man every day. Like, I get it if you can't make it. You can come to church another night. That's fine. But as a habit, as a pattern, If you're only coming to church once one Sunday a month, there's something wrong. You're drifting. And you're going to need to strengthen your wife, and your children, your family in the things of the spirit if you're going to make it through the season that we're entering into. It's serious. It's time to be serious about sowing to the spirit. And so there's a little sermon there for you. Yeah. So he says, will kindle a fire in her forest and it shall devour all things round about it. Canada is inundated with fires. Fires that are being started by the government and then they blame it on climate change. All over America, there's fires everywhere. All over the world, fires. And Maui fire. Direct energy weapons. A whole lot of different ways that these fires are started. And we we live in the trees here. And we're gonna go hide in the trees. Right? What if they set this place on fire? What if this place is set on fire? I live in the trees. I don't have a chance. Right? And that's what they're doing. They're setting the forest on fire to drive people into the cities. Do you understand that? They're smart cities, which are these prisons. So the Lord says, I'm gonna start a fire, and I will kindle a fire in her forest. It shall devour all things round about it. The tribulation period, God's going to cause a fire in Zechariah twelve eight nine. A fiery trial like Peter talks about. That fiery trial can be used for good. It can be used to purify you and I, that fiery trial. In the tribulation period, God's going to cause a fire. The tribulation fire, the time of Jacob's trouble in Revelation 12 or excuse me, Zechariah twelve, eight, nine. Who has that? Sean. Sean has it. Let your hands be strong. You have been hearing in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets who spoke in the day the foundation was laid for house of the Lord of hosts that the temple might be built. Is right? Is that the right one? Was that 08/09? In that day, shall the lord defend that happened at Jerusalem. He 13. '13 eight nine. Oh, thirteen eight nine. You got the eight nine part. Thirteen eight nine. Yeah. It says 13. I I wrote 12. Thirteen, eight, nine. And it shall come to pass in all the land, says the Lord, that two thirds in it shall be cut off and die, but one third shall be left in it. I will bring the one third through the fire, will refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call my name, on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, this is my people, and each one will say, the Lord is my God. Amen. There we go. Now turn to Psalm a 118. We'll finish up here. So that fire, that fire that God's going to cause is going to be used for good. On the one hand, it's going to burn off the dross, going to burn off the impurities, it's going to cause two thirds of the juice to be wiped out. But there's going to be a one third remnant that goes through that fire and they're going to be purified. They're going to be prepared for the millennium. And Psalm a 118 beginning with verse 22. The stone which the builders refused, we talked about Jesus being the rock, has become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing and it's marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. So when Jesus is riding on the donkey into Jerusalem, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, the people are shouting out on Palm Sunday. Right? In his first coming, the people are quoting this Psalm, Hosanna, Hosanna. Save now. Save now. Save now. So that's what Hosanna means. This is the day which the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now. I beseech thee, oh, Lord. Oh, Lord. I beseech thee. Send now prosperity. They were wanting the millennium. They were wanting the Messiah. They were wanting him to overthrow the Romans. When they saw him four days later being interrogated by Pilate and all that, now they were crying out, crucify him, crucify him, crucify him. Let his blood be upon us and upon our children. He went and he wept over the city of Jerusalem. How often I would have gathered you as mother hen does gather brood under her wings, but you would not. Why? Because you didn't know the day of your visitation. You didn't know me when I rode into Jerusalem. You didn't get it, you know. And so it's the official rejection by the nation of their Messiah, and that was the Daniel nine twenty six being cut off. And so that cutting him off the crucifixion of him. And so he says, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. God is the Lord who has shown us light. And now remember that? Remember when he said, you're not going to see me anymore till you say? And so in that fire, that remnant, that one third remnant that's purified that comes through that fire, they're going to realize that they crucified their Messiah. They're going to realize they're going to be purified. Their faith is going to erupt, and the Lord's going to write His word in their heart. In Jeremiah 31, they're going be born again. They're going to be crying out, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord. God is the Lord who has shown us light, bind the sacrifices with cords even under the horns of the altar. Thou art my God, I will praise thee. Thou art my God, I will exalt thee. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for his good, for his mercy endureth forever. Alright. So there's where you cry out for help. Alright. So alright. Let's pray. Let's pray. So, father, we come before you, and we lift up Marlene, and we lift up Sue and the other Sue. We pray as they go to Hawaii this week that you give them traveling mercies. You watch over and protect them and bless them mightily. Let them come back with praise reports of seeing seeing for real what's happened and eyewitness accounts and anoint and use them in a powerful way to build people up, to encourage people, to bring back word. And God, we pray that all that the devil meant for evil, with all the deception and evil that they're trying to do to steal the people's land, make a smart city and all that. I pray that Hawaii be the place that that stops it, Lord. That just stops it, the globalists have to take five steps back and realize the jig is up. They didn't get away with this, Lord. I pray that the upheaval, the amount of people within the churches, the the power of your holy spirit would just just expose the wickedness. And, they just wouldn't be able to get away with it. We pray that you raise up a standard against it. When the enemy comes in like a flood, that the spirit of the Lord raise up a standard against it, Lord. And, God, we pray that you prosper them. We pray for your blessing upon little Calvary Bermington that we could be a light. And we pray, Lord, as we're students, as we continue to study the prophecies, as we continue to study your word, that your word would be a light onto our feet, a light onto our path, Lord, that we'd walk in all truth. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Alrighty.

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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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