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Speaker 2: There are some other places, but we'll start out there
Speaker 2: Psalm eighty four, hallelujah, and then we'll go to Ephesian six.
Speaker 2: Bless the Lord, Bless the Lord. Hallelujah. Father God, we
Speaker 2: believe you for revelation this morning. Lord, I believe you
Speaker 2: to think through my mind and speak through my lips.
Speaker 2: Give me utterance in the Holy Ghost. I believe that
Speaker 2: each person here has ears to hear, a mind, a process,
Speaker 2: and a heart to receive what you have for them,
Speaker 2: to hear not just what I'm saying, but to hear
Speaker 2: what the Holy Ghost is saying to them about what
Speaker 2: is being said. Lord God, we thank you for the anointing,
Speaker 2: the yoke, destroying burden, removing power from on high. In
Speaker 2: Jesus' name, we believe you to speak to each and
Speaker 2: every one of us. Say this with me in Jesus' name,
Speaker 2: I have ears to hear, a mind, a process, and
Speaker 2: a heart to receive and to be a doer of
Speaker 2: what the Lord shows me in Jesus' name, Amen, Hallelujah,
Speaker 2: psaw eighty four. Let's start in verse four Saw eighty four. Four.
Speaker 2: Blessed are they who dwell in your house. They will
Speaker 2: be still or ever praising you. Blessed, happy, fortunate, to
Speaker 2: be envied is the man the woman who's strength, say strength,
Speaker 2: whose strength is in the in whose heart are the
Speaker 2: ways of them or the highways of Zion? Or whose
Speaker 2: hearts are set on pilgrimage. King James a little vague,
Speaker 2: but the majority of translators versions translated one of two ways.
Speaker 2: In whose heart are the highways the Zion? Or in
Speaker 2: whose heart? Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. And that's
Speaker 2: the vital part of receiving his strength and passing through Bakha.
Speaker 2: The next verse, who passing through the valley of Bakha?
Speaker 2: Now what does beka mean? Weeping sorrow tears. It represents
Speaker 2: the tests, the trials, the tribulations of life, the disappointments
Speaker 2: that we deal with, the rejection, the betrayal, all the
Speaker 2: It's in this life because of sin and satan and
Speaker 2: selfishness and the fall of man. That's all represented by
Speaker 2: the Valley of Bakah weeping tears. But notice we don't
Speaker 2: live or camp or die there. We pass through the
Speaker 2: valley of Bakah, just like in Psalm twenty three. Yay,
Speaker 2: though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death,
Speaker 2: I will fear no evil. Thou art with me. That
Speaker 2: rod and my staff they comfort me. We pass through
Speaker 2: the valley of Bakah, and we make it a well. Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: We make it a spring. We turn it around. We
Speaker 2: take the challenges of life, the attacks of the enemy,
Speaker 2: and we turn it into a place where once again,
Speaker 2: the life giving waters of life from the Almighty God
Speaker 2: flow into that situation and we experience the power of God,
Speaker 2: the deliverance of God, the joy of the Lord, the
Speaker 2: healing of God. He takes the valley of Bakah as
Speaker 2: we make it a weall, as we rejoice in Him,
Speaker 2: as we do these things we've talked about. And then
Speaker 2: God's reiin comes and fills it with pools. It gets
Speaker 2: goes from good to gooder, from better to better. Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: The rain also fills it with pool and then notice
Speaker 2: verse seven, they go from strength to strength. So it's
Speaker 2: not as talking about strength, but something about going from
Speaker 2: strength to strength. Now there's several aspects here. Want to
Speaker 2: be going from human strength to divine strength. But it
Speaker 2: also speaks of going continually from strength to strength, increasing
Speaker 2: in strength. The Amplified Bible does just that, amplifies it
Speaker 2: and says they go from strength to strength, they increase
Speaker 2: in victorious power. Hallelujah. Our lives should be increasing every day,
Speaker 2: every month, every year in victorious power. Now how do
Speaker 2: we do that? I mean, it's one thing to talk
Speaker 2: about it, one thing to read it, one thing to
Speaker 2: preach it. But I always like to get down to
Speaker 2: the how. How how do we do that? Well, we
Speaker 2: looked last time at seven principles of going from strength
Speaker 2: to strength. We'll review them quickly. Write these down somewhere
Speaker 2: if you haven't already run down your Bible or on
Speaker 2: you know, a notebook or nothing else. Write them down
Speaker 2: on the palm of your hand or something like that
Speaker 2: where you can refer back to them. But I encourage
Speaker 2: to find a place in your Bible and write it down.
Speaker 2: How do we go from strength to strength? Again, Christianity
Speaker 2: is supposed to be lived from a position of strength.
Speaker 2: God told Joshua when he was taking over at the
Speaker 2: very beginning of his life. He told him or his
Speaker 2: battle life. I guess I should say he told him
Speaker 2: four times in just a short section. He said, be
Speaker 2: strong and courageous, be very strong and courageous. Have not
Speaker 2: I commanded you strong and courageous, be strong and courageous. Well,
Speaker 2: same thing is true for you and I be me
Speaker 2: to be strong and courageous. We are to be very
Speaker 2: strong and courage We're going to talk about how to
Speaker 2: do that today. How are we strong? How are we
Speaker 2: strong in the Lord?
Speaker 3: Is?
Speaker 2: The Bible tell we are to grow strong in the Lord.
Speaker 2: Hebrews eleven thirty four talks about how certain saints people
Speaker 2: of God were from weakness were made strong. The Bible
Speaker 2: says in the Book of Joel, let the weak say,
Speaker 2: I am strong near my eight ten says the joy
Speaker 2: of the Lord is our strength. Bible says one of
Speaker 2: God's names is l Gibor, the mighty God, the strong One,
Speaker 2: the strong God, Hallelujah. We can take advantage of those attribute.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, He's our strong power, our strong refuge.
Speaker 2: So we are to be strong in the Lord. How
Speaker 2: do we do that all right, How do we go
Speaker 2: from strength to strength? We looked at seven points last time.
Speaker 2: We'll just review refresh them right now in our mind.
Speaker 2: Number one, be truly converted and born again. It starts
Speaker 2: right there. It's a problem today. Many folks think they're
Speaker 2: saved just because they belong to a church, or were
Speaker 2: raised in a certain religion, or they're a good person,
Speaker 2: or even they prayed the sinner's prayer. But they didn't
Speaker 2: have any true transformation. There's no growth, there's no life.
Speaker 2: They're just trusting in works, they're trusting in good deeds.
Speaker 2: We need to make sure we are truly converted change.
Speaker 2: The word converted means a change of mind, a change
Speaker 2: of thinking, a changeable way of life, to go from
Speaker 2: something from error and from sin, from wickedness to the
Speaker 2: God of truth, the God of love, the God of righteousness,
Speaker 2: to a change of life. So we want to be
Speaker 2: sure we are truly converted. Acts three nineteen says, repent
Speaker 2: therefore and be converted, Be converted. What will happen? Your
Speaker 2: sins will be blotted out in times of refreshing, will
Speaker 2: come from the presence of the Lord. Now I'm all
Speaker 2: for being born again, but again. Like I said, a
Speaker 2: lot of time people think they're born again, but there's
Speaker 2: been no conversion. We said, we looked at the word
Speaker 2: born again occurs three times in the New Testament, but
Speaker 2: conversion occurs like thirty eight thirty seven times. Most of
Speaker 2: them have to do with a change of life. Some
Speaker 2: mean other things. So we want to be truly converted.
Speaker 2: I've said many times, if you've come to Jesus and
Speaker 2: called upon him, but there's been no change in your life,
Speaker 2: something is wrong. Something is wrong, because really the order
Speaker 2: of the day in Christianity is change. We're constantly changing,
Speaker 2: constantly growing. Bible says we are to go not only
Speaker 2: from strength to strength, but from faith to faith, from
Speaker 2: glory to glory. We are to increase. Bible says the
Speaker 2: path of the righteous is like the light of dawn
Speaker 2: that grows brighter and brighter until the full day. So
Speaker 2: first thing is be truly converted, born again. Secondly, receive
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit baptism next to getting born again. I
Speaker 2: think everybody that's received the Holy Spirit baptism would testify
Speaker 2: it's the next best thing to getting born again. It's
Speaker 2: power from on high, Jesus said, Acts one to eight
Speaker 2: you'll receive power Dunamas strength when the Holy Ghost comes
Speaker 2: upon you. Some people say, well, I'm born again. I
Speaker 2: got hauled. The holy ghosts will ever get not, so
Speaker 2: study your Bible, the Book of Acts. They would get
Speaker 2: born again, and then they would get baptized in the
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. The
Speaker 2: disciples themselves. Jesus breathed on them, but then said, receive
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. But then later on he said, go
Speaker 2: into the upper room and tarry until you be a
Speaker 2: dude with power from on high. And you know, we
Speaker 2: need to receive that Holy Spirit baptism. It's power from
Speaker 2: on high. It's power. Somebody said, well, do I need
Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit baptism to go to heaven. No, but
Speaker 2: if you're going to live with power and victory in
Speaker 2: this life, you need it. It's not for heaven, it's
Speaker 2: for here. We need that indument of power from on high.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this, and two of the greatest
Speaker 2: helps that God has given us to live the victorious
Speaker 2: Christian life is the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the
Speaker 2: evidence of speaking tongues. And again people get all hung
Speaker 2: up about tongues for some reason. I don't know why.
Speaker 2: It's just a spiritual prayer language is supernatural prayer language.
Speaker 2: They did it in the Bible. All the New Testament
Speaker 2: writers spoken tongues. All of them in the Upper Room
Speaker 2: spoken tongues. Marry the Mother of Jesus spoke in tongues.
Speaker 2: It's like it's nothing. There's nothing weird or strange about it.
Speaker 2: And that which lead me to my point. Two of
Speaker 2: the most powerful tools or weapons that God has given
Speaker 2: us to live the Christian life, the Holy Spirit. Baptism
Speaker 2: and speaking the Word of God. Confession of the Word
Speaker 2: of God are two of the things that so many
Speaker 2: believers trivialize, struggle with, demean think, Oh wow, that's not
Speaker 2: that big of a saying if I baptize on my
Speaker 2: spirit speaking tongues, Oh well, that confession business is overblown.
Speaker 2: That's speaking. I thought. Those are the two powerful things
Speaker 2: that God has given us to be more than conquerors,
Speaker 2: world overcomers, and yet most believers just trivialize those two things. Oh,
Speaker 2: we need to get a revelation, we need to get
Speaker 2: a hold of the power of the baptismal Holy Spirit
Speaker 2: and speaking in other times we need and doing it
Speaker 2: all the time. We need to get a revelation. The
Speaker 2: power of speaking the word of God. Death and life
Speaker 2: are in the power of the tongue. Watch your words.
Speaker 2: Don't speak death, don't speak contrary to the word of God.
Speaker 2: Speak Life, Speak the word of God. Speak the word
Speaker 2: only my servants shall be healed. The man said, well,
Speaker 2: your servant is your body. Speak the word only, and
Speaker 2: your servant will be healed. Glory to God. Number three
Speaker 2: hunger after truth. We're talking about how do we go
Speaker 2: from strength to strength hunger after truth. Now the truth
Speaker 2: is Jesus and the truth is the Word of God.
Speaker 2: We need to hunger after We need to regularly consistently
Speaker 2: read and study, meditate the Bible. But it goes even
Speaker 2: beyond that too. What we watch and what we listen to,
Speaker 2: kind of music we listen to, the things that we
Speaker 2: watch or don't watch on television, the movies we watch
Speaker 2: or don't watch. We should always be hungering after truth.
Speaker 2: Is this going to enrich me? Is this going to
Speaker 2: take me higher? Is this going to take away from
Speaker 2: me spiritually or add to me spiritually? Or is it
Speaker 2: just neutral? Now, very some things are neutral, but very
Speaker 2: few things you know, and I'm not saying we can't
Speaker 2: relax and enjoy life. But we also have to realize
Speaker 2: we are in a battleground. This is not a playground.
Speaker 2: Believers treat the world like a playground, but it is
Speaker 2: a battle ground. As we're going to see later on
Speaker 2: Ephesian six, we are in spiritual warfare. A lot of
Speaker 2: people act like we're not. Penny and Sarah and I
Speaker 2: were just talking the other day, what a difference it
Speaker 2: was in the United States in World War One and
Speaker 2: World War Two. How everybody was affected by the fact
Speaker 2: we were at war. They lived different, They made sacrifices,
Speaker 2: from the adults on down to the kids. I mean
Speaker 2: they realize we are at war, and everybody sacrifice. Today,
Speaker 2: nobody acts like there's any kind of war spiritually or naturally.
Speaker 2: I said, if today and today's climate, if we were
Speaker 2: to be involved in something as big as World War
Speaker 2: One or World War two, I think most people just
Speaker 2: act like nothing, like not it doesn't affect me. I'm
Speaker 2: just going to go on with my selfish life. So
Speaker 2: we need to recognize we are at war spiritually. Glory
Speaker 2: to God. So hunger after truth, guard the things you
Speaker 2: read and watch, discipline yourself in the things of God.
Speaker 2: Discipline yourself to read the Bible, pray, to press on
Speaker 2: with God. It'll be worth it. It is worth it.
Speaker 2: You won't regret it. Nobody is going to, at the
Speaker 2: end of their lives stand before God and say, I
Speaker 2: wish I hadn't been so hungry for God. I wish
Speaker 2: I had to spend more time caught up in the
Speaker 2: carnal things of this world. No, it's going to be
Speaker 2: the exact opposite, going to be the exact opposite. So
Speaker 2: let's count the costs and go after what really matters.
Speaker 2: Jesus said, one thing is needful, only one thing. Mary
Speaker 2: has chosen it. It won't be taken away from her.
Speaker 2: Paul said, this one thing I do. One thing that's
Speaker 2: got to be our priority. Jesus said, seek ye first,
Speaker 2: first in time, place order and importance, the Kingdom of God,
Speaker 2: his righteousness, and then everything else will be taken care of.
Speaker 2: Hunger after truth Number four, be a person of prayer.
Speaker 2: Privately and corporately. Have your own individual prayer life, but
Speaker 2: take advantage of prayer meetings and get with other believers
Speaker 2: and pray. To me. I'm talking about how we go
Speaker 2: from strength to strength. These are just basic principles are
Speaker 2: not overly complicated or overly difficult. But believers down through
Speaker 2: time have employed these seven things to go from strength
Speaker 2: to strength and live a life life of victory. Be
Speaker 2: truly converted, hunger after truth, receive a Holy Spirit baptism,
Speaker 2: hunger after truth. Be a person of prayer. Number five,
Speaker 2: Be consistently in church and in fellowship, whether you feel
Speaker 2: like it or not. In fact, the time you do
Speaker 2: not feel like it is probably the time you need
Speaker 2: to go the most, because you're in for your biggest blessing.
Speaker 2: Go to church consistently. Make it a priority. Today's mindset
Speaker 2: as well. I'll go if it's convenient, I'll go, if
Speaker 2: it works out, I'll go. If I don't have too
Speaker 2: many other busy things I'm going to do. No, we
Speaker 2: need to make it a priority. I grew up Roman Catholic,
Speaker 2: and I say it's a shame. Roman Catholics then put
Speaker 2: Holy Ghost Charismatics to shame. Today with our consistency and
Speaker 2: are we never missed. I can't think of a single
Speaker 2: time growing up that I ever missed church. We were
Speaker 2: always in church, all seven of us kids, with my
Speaker 2: dad in mom, and we were taught Margaret and I
Speaker 2: were talking about this last Sunday. We were taught to
Speaker 2: be respectful in the quote unquote house of God. We
Speaker 2: didn't run around, we didn't tickle each other and throw
Speaker 2: things around and play with one another. We sat there
Speaker 2: like this. We did not move. We were in God's house,
Speaker 2: we thought, you know, and it's just like that's been
Speaker 2: lost today, a lot of their respect for God. In fact,
Speaker 2: that led to one of the most embarrassing moments of
Speaker 2: my entire life. If I told some of this before,
Speaker 2: some of you know where I'm going Penny notes where
Speaker 2: I'm going. First grade went to a Catholic school. The
Speaker 2: Catholic church was right across the playground. Once a week,
Speaker 2: I think it was. I don't think we went every day.
Speaker 2: I think we went once a week. By Friday, they
Speaker 2: would march the whole school over to the church and
Speaker 2: we'd sit there for Mass. Well, I'm just like, whoa,
Speaker 2: you know, the whole school and it was a big
Speaker 2: school back in those days. Well, they would seek the
Speaker 2: first graders in the first section, then the second graders,
Speaker 2: then the third grades, until you got clear back to
Speaker 2: the eighth graders. Well, I'm in the first section and
Speaker 2: I'd never had this dilemma before. I'd gone, you know,
Speaker 2: with my folks and everything. All of a sudden I
Speaker 2: had to go to the bathroom big time number one.
Speaker 2: But uh not on my first point. I'm just clarifying.
Speaker 2: But uh, and I'm sitting there, I'm standing there. I'm going,
Speaker 2: you know, it's like, what do I do? I said,
Speaker 2: I can't leave, And I thought, they don't even have
Speaker 2: a bathroom in God's house, do they? You know, It's
Speaker 2: just like what do I do. It's like, I'm just
Speaker 2: going to have to hold it now. I'm just struggling
Speaker 2: and start Well, all of a sudden, I felt something
Speaker 2: warm running down my leg and I went, oh no,
Speaker 2: I'm a first grader six years old, and I just panicked.
Speaker 2: At that point, I just walked back to the nun
Speaker 2: who was at the high this all, I said, Sister,
Speaker 2: I wreped my pants. I have some compassion here gee
Speaker 2: and and uh, I said sister, I webbed my pants,
Speaker 2: and she said, well, go home and change. We lived
Speaker 2: like a block away. Well, this church is Catholic church
Speaker 2: was uh it was long. I mean it was longer
Speaker 2: that center aisle, longer than the width of this I mean,
Speaker 2: it'd be like I'd say about from the front door
Speaker 2: to the back door. So and we had marble floors there.
Speaker 2: So here I go down the center. Ai'l past all
Speaker 2: eight grades. Squish squish, squish, squish, squish, squish, squish squish.
Speaker 2: You laugh now, I wasn't laughing. I hit that front door,
Speaker 2: burst into tears, ran home. I said, mom, I wrapped
Speaker 2: my pants, and you'd have to know my mom. She said, well,
Speaker 2: I'll go change and go on back. You know, my
Speaker 2: mom devastating, But I got over it, hallelujah. So I
Speaker 2: don't know how I got on that. Be constant consistently
Speaker 2: in church and in fellowship, whether you feel like it
Speaker 2: or not, keep pressing on. Don't quit, stay in the word,
Speaker 2: stay in prayer, keep coming to church. Don't allow the
Speaker 2: enemy to bring condemnation and guilt to you. Keep going
Speaker 2: from strength to strength. Number six. Live for God and
Speaker 2: from God. Live for God. First of all, obedience, faithfulness, service, holiness,
Speaker 2: these different things. Live for God. But then also realize
Speaker 2: where to live for God. From God. We get our life.
Speaker 2: We get our everything we need from God. We don't
Speaker 2: necessarily fight for the victory. We fight from the victory.
Speaker 2: So live for God and live from God. It's so
Speaker 2: important that we do this in order to go from
Speaker 2: strength to strength. Hallelujah. And then number seven, receive what
Speaker 2: belongs to you and act on it. We'll talking about
Speaker 2: how to go from strength to strength, increase in victorious power. See,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of things that belong to people, both
Speaker 2: in the natural as well as the spiritual, that belong
Speaker 2: to them that they're not acting on. The classic example
Speaker 2: is the right to vote. Every American citizen has the
Speaker 2: right to vote in every election, even the national presidential elections.
Speaker 2: Half of them don't take advantage of it. Well, does
Speaker 2: that mean they don't have that right? No, they still
Speaker 2: have it, but it's not doing them any good. In
Speaker 2: a local election, it's even less sometimes like twenty percent
Speaker 2: of people they can vote actually vote, sometimes less than that. Well,
Speaker 2: as it is in the natural, so is it in
Speaker 2: the spiritual. There's spiritual things that belong to us, But
Speaker 2: just because we don't take advantage of them doesn't mean
Speaker 2: they're not ours. The name of Jesus belongs to us.
Speaker 2: We don't have to pray say God give me the name.
Speaker 2: He's already given it to us. Strength belongs to us. Freedom, victory,
Speaker 2: it all belongs to us, all the inheritance. It belongs
Speaker 2: to us. Authority, wisdom, guidance, baptism, and the Holy Spirit, healing, provision, protection,
Speaker 2: the fruit of the spirit, the gifts of the spirit.
Speaker 2: Could just go on and on and on. We have
Speaker 2: a right to them, but if we don't receive them,
Speaker 2: act on them, walk in them. They're just like the
Speaker 2: right to vote. It won't do us any good. But
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean it's not ours or the God's holding
Speaker 2: it back from us. Somebody doesn't vote, we'd have no
Speaker 2: right to say, well, the government's holding it back from me.
Speaker 2: They won't let me vote. No, you need to get
Speaker 2: off your blessed assurance and go vote. You need to
Speaker 2: go do something. You need to act on what belongs
Speaker 2: to you. So life and power and strength are other
Speaker 2: things that belong to us. Now, this is how we
Speaker 2: go from strength to strength. Be truly converted, receive the
Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, baptism, hunger after truth, be a person of prayer,
Speaker 2: be consistently in church, live for God and from God.
Speaker 2: Receive what belongs to you, and act on it. Now
Speaker 2: there's another aspect of this. I fact go with me
Speaker 2: over to Isaiah. You're not too far from there. Just
Speaker 2: turn to the right and go a couple books to
Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter twelve. There's another aspect of going from strength
Speaker 2: to strength that a lot of people do not realize.
Speaker 2: To be strong in its joy jay O why joy?
Speaker 2: Nehmiah eight ten gives us a tremendous revelation. We sang
Speaker 2: it earlier. The joy of Yahweh is our what strength, strength,
Speaker 2: the strength, and joy. The joy of the Lord is
Speaker 2: our strength. What many do not realize is that joy
Speaker 2: is a vital part of strength. Now, if you do
Speaker 2: these seven things that I just reviewed, it will help
Speaker 2: produce joy in your life. Conversion, holy Spirit, baptism, truth, prayer, church,
Speaker 2: living for from God, receiving what belongs to you. That
Speaker 2: will help produce joy in your life. And the joy
Speaker 2: the Lord is your strength. Notice I said doing those
Speaker 2: seven things will help produce joy. Here's the thing. People
Speaker 2: they seek pleasure, they seek fun, they seek happiness, they
Speaker 2: seek entertainment, they seek all kinds of things in order
Speaker 2: to be happy and even have joy, instead of seeking
Speaker 2: the Lord and these things we talked about which produce joy.
Speaker 2: I mean, look at most people. You know they're seeking
Speaker 2: all kinds of things pleasure, fun, happiness, entertainment. They think
Speaker 2: that's going to bring satisfaction and joy and even strength.
Speaker 2: It's not going to do it. You know, some people say,
Speaker 2: I just I am so tired, I just then to
Speaker 2: go to church today, not realizing that, No, that's not
Speaker 2: the way to get strength. I needed to rest. One
Speaker 2: might rest your body, but it's not going to rest
Speaker 2: your spirit. The source of physical strength is oftentimes spiritual strength,
Speaker 2: and we need to draw on the strength of the Lord. Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: Now look at Isaiah what he said here in verse
Speaker 2: twelve or chapter twelve, verse one. In that day you
Speaker 2: shall hear, Oh Lord, oh Yahweh. I will praise you,
Speaker 2: yah Dah revere worship. Hold out the hands to you.
Speaker 2: Thou wast anger with me. Thine anger is turned away,
Speaker 2: and thou comfort is me. Behold, God is my salvation,
Speaker 2: my Yes, You are my savior, my healer, my deliverer,
Speaker 2: my sanctifier. I will trust and not be afraid. The
Speaker 2: word trust is the Hebrew word we talked about in
Speaker 2: Psalm eighty four battak to run to for refuge, to to. Really,
Speaker 2: it's not just a mental thing. It's a it's a
Speaker 2: it's a not a passive thing. It's an active thing. Lord,
Speaker 2: I run to you as my refuge. I will trust
Speaker 2: and not be afraid for the Lord, even the Lord
Speaker 2: or yah even Yahweh is my strength. Yahweh is my
Speaker 2: strengths your eyes and say, Yahweh is my strength. Fade again,
Speaker 2: Yahweh is my strength and my song, Hadi. Let's do
Speaker 2: that on close your eyes, say Yahweh is my song.
Speaker 2: Yahweh is my song, Halley, not some top forty hit.
Speaker 2: He also is become my salvation, my yes, you are. Therefore,
Speaker 2: now notice verse three powerful verse. People aren't even know
Speaker 2: where this is in the Bible.
Speaker 4: Therefore, with joy, shall you draw water out of the
Speaker 4: wells of salvation.
Speaker 2: WHOA, Well, there's a lot here. I could preach a
Speaker 2: whole message on this. But salvation is not just getting
Speaker 2: your sins forgiving going to heaven, which is the greatest
Speaker 2: aspect of but it's healing, deliverance, preservation, and soundness. Notice
Speaker 2: wells a plural. Didn't say you'll draw water out of
Speaker 2: the well of self. You'll draw water out of the
Speaker 2: wells of salvation. Healing, deliverance, preservation, and soundness. Remember what
Speaker 2: Jesus said and John seven, out of your innermost being
Speaker 2: shall flow reverse plural of living water, glory to God. Holly.
Speaker 2: Do you preach myself happy, whether you are or not,
Speaker 2: with joy, you will draw water out of the well
Speaker 2: of solvation. Joy, the joy of the Lord is our strength.
Speaker 2: Now it may seem simple. I was thinking about this,
Speaker 2: but you know the old acronym for joy. As simple
Speaker 2: as it seems, it's a lot of power and truth
Speaker 2: in it. Joy, j O, Y, Jesus, others yourself. That's how.
Speaker 2: That's what produces joy in that order. Hate to break
Speaker 2: it to anybody's dear heart, but you is last, Jesus,
Speaker 2: others yourself. We want to spell it ydge myself, others
Speaker 2: Jesus from dodge whatever. But it's Jesus others yourself. You know,
Speaker 2: there's joy in the Lord, in serving the Lord. One
Speaker 2: person said this, I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
Speaker 2: I woke and saw that life was service. I acted
Speaker 2: and behold, service was joy. This is joy. And forgetting
Speaker 2: about ourselves. We had so caught up in this little package.
Speaker 2: You know, some people were so wrapped up in themselves.
Speaker 2: One of they say they're going to find out. It's
Speaker 2: a mighty small package involved serving others, reaching out the other.
Speaker 2: You need healing, Find somebody else that needs healing and
Speaker 2: pray for them. You need love, find somebody else that
Speaker 2: needs You need friends. A man who shows himself friendly
Speaker 2: will have many friends. Reach out and be a friend
Speaker 2: to somebody else. You need prayer, pray for somebody else
Speaker 2: instead of just getting all introverted, woe is me, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go reach out to somebody else. You want people
Speaker 2: to come into your loved one's life lives and witness
Speaker 2: to them and bring them to Jesus. Guess what, go
Speaker 2: into other people's lives and witness to them, bring them
Speaker 2: to Jesus. What you do for others, God will make
Speaker 2: happen for you. Whatever man souls, that's how he also
Speaker 2: reap hallelujah. You want people to witness to your loved ones,
Speaker 2: witness to other people's loved ones. Glory to God. Don't
Speaker 2: you think there's other people praying? Oh, God, send somebody
Speaker 2: into their life, Send a labor into their life. That somebody,
Speaker 2: maybe somebody you work with, maybe your next door neighbor,
Speaker 2: and somebody's praying. Old God send a labor into their life,
Speaker 2: just like you're praying, Oh, God, send a labor into
Speaker 2: my brother's life or sister's life or whatever. Well be
Speaker 2: that labor for somebody else. And what you make happen
Speaker 2: for others, God will make happen for you. With joy.
Speaker 2: You'll draw water out of the wells of salvation. And
Speaker 2: in that day shall you say praise Yahweh. Call upon
Speaker 2: his name, Glory to God. I capitalize name in my Bible.
Speaker 2: I just took my pen and has made a capital N,
Speaker 2: because that's what it's really talking about. Call upon his name,
Speaker 2: declare his doings among the people. Make mention that his
Speaker 2: name we've been talking about the names of God. Make
Speaker 2: mention that his name is exalted. The Hebrew word sagob inaccessible,
Speaker 2: high above evil, impregnable his name. That's why proverb says
Speaker 2: same Hebrew word Sagod. Proverb says, the name of the
Speaker 2: Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it
Speaker 2: and are safe, high above evil, inaccessible and strong is
Speaker 2: what it literally says, the name, the name. I was
Speaker 2: reading something that Kathy Milbrote, brother Charlie Millbrot's wife wrote,
Speaker 2: they are missionaries. You know, well, we support them. They've
Speaker 2: been there many times in Thailand. And she said, every
Speaker 2: year I study the names of God. And I thought,
Speaker 2: she said, I thought it would be so wonderful if
Speaker 2: people would just get a hold of the names of God.
Speaker 2: What a revelation it would be. And I thought, well,
Speaker 2: if they're here, they're getting it. Glory to God, Allelujah,
Speaker 2: make mention is his names exalted. Verse five. Sing unto
Speaker 2: the Lord, for he has done excellent things. Sing unto
Speaker 2: the Lord. This is known in all the earth. Cry
Speaker 2: Out and shout Glory to God. Cry Out and shout.
Speaker 2: You know, I look that word cry out up and
Speaker 2: one of the Hebrew meanings is be cheerful, Be cheerful,
Speaker 2: be cheerful. You know what a little nugget here When
Speaker 2: you cry out and shout, it brings to your It
Speaker 2: brings joy to you. Some of you need to just shout.
Speaker 2: You never shouted in your life for the Lord. You
Speaker 2: may have shouted for a pig skin or a basketball
Speaker 2: or something, but shout for the Lord. Some of you
Speaker 2: just need to. And now you know, you don't necessarily
Speaker 2: need to do it around people, but eventually you'll do
Speaker 2: it around people. Somebody, Glory to God. Hallelujah. Amen. I
Speaker 2: do it frequently when I'm driving down the road by myself,
Speaker 2: just shout to the Lord. I do it frequently when
Speaker 2: I'm in here by myself. I walk through the sanctuary,
Speaker 2: sometimes early in the morning, and from there to there,
Speaker 2: I just glory to God, Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus. I
Speaker 2: just got a little ivy there, a little power boost
Speaker 2: right there. Shout unto the Lord with a voice of triumph.
Speaker 2: What's the Bible say, shout for joy? Now here's how
Speaker 2: we tend to interpret it. You know that says that
Speaker 2: I looked at it shout for joy. It says about
Speaker 2: seven eight times. But here's how we interpret it. Shout
Speaker 2: because of joy. Well, if I'm joyful and happy, then
Speaker 2: I'll shout. That's not what the Bible says it shout
Speaker 2: for joy. Shout in order to obtain joy. Hello, if
Speaker 2: you are fighting depression, discouragement, you know one of the
Speaker 2: greatest weapons against that, shout glory, Hallelujah, praising Jesus, Oh glory.
Speaker 2: I'm buying any depression. I'm healed, I'm delivered, I'm saved,
Speaker 2: I'm set free. Depression. You must go in the name
Speaker 2: of Jesus. Somebody says, well, God's not hardy hearing. He's
Speaker 2: not nervous either. He doesn't mind. He's the one who said,
Speaker 2: shout time and time again, cry out and shout, you
Speaker 2: inhabitants of Zion. That's us for great? Why should we shout?
Speaker 2: For great? Is the Holy One, the Holy One? Kudosh
Speaker 2: and Isaiah? He said Isaiah six, he said, holy, Holy, Holy,
Speaker 2: or the angel said, holy, holy, Holy is Lord, Kardosh Karros, Kudosh,
Speaker 2: Holy Great is the Holy One of Israel in the
Speaker 2: midst of you, in the center of you. That Hebrew
Speaker 2: word means center. He's in the midst of you. How
Speaker 2: can you not shout? How can you not shout? March
Speaker 2: madness is going on right now. Watch these people going
Speaker 2: crazy for basketball. Why don't begrudge him. I mean that
Speaker 2: helps them, But I mean not if they're saying but
Speaker 2: in church, I'm dignified. I would never shout, I would
Speaker 2: never raise my hands, and I would never speak in
Speaker 2: other tongues. I'm too dignified for that. But yet they'll
Speaker 2: go wild over basketball and all these teams. Everybody gets
Speaker 2: all excited. You know only one of them is going
Speaker 2: to win. But every one of us can win in Christ.
Speaker 2: Glory to God. We are more than conquerors. So joy.
Speaker 2: Continue to apply these seven principles, you'll receive joy. You'll
Speaker 2: go from strength to strength. All right, go to Isaiah
Speaker 2: forty were there in Isaiah Isaiah forty thirty one? Just
Speaker 2: for take of time, Isaiah forty one. But they that
Speaker 2: wait upon the Lord shall renew their strengths. We're talking
Speaker 2: about be strong in the Lord, going from strength to strength.
Speaker 2: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
Speaker 2: They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall
Speaker 2: run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew there or
Speaker 2: replace or exchange their strength. The Hebrew word renew means
Speaker 2: to replace or exchange, as well as renew. So as
Speaker 2: we wait upon Your weh we exchange our human weakness,
Speaker 2: which is our strength, for his strength. We exchange strength.
Speaker 2: We renew our strength, We replace our strength as we
Speaker 2: wait upon the Lord. So that this word wait is
Speaker 2: a key word. It's not just sit around and okay, hey, hey,
Speaker 2: what's up brother? What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm waiting? Okay, wait, waiting on I'm waiting on the Lord.
Speaker 2: What wait? You're waiting on the Lord to do, waiting
Speaker 2: for them to replace my strength. I'm just waiting. How
Speaker 2: long you been waiting? Oh it's been a long time.
Speaker 2: I'm just waiting. Waiting is not a passive word. It's
Speaker 2: an active word. Look at what the Hebrew says for
Speaker 2: the word wait. This is how the theological word Book
Speaker 2: of the Old ten estimate. We'll have it on the screen.
Speaker 2: The word wait means to wait or look for with
Speaker 2: eager expectation. Do you come to church expecting? Do you
Speaker 2: have your morning devotions expecting? Do you go from day
Speaker 2: to day expecting God to move, to God to speak,
Speaker 2: God to act, God to do things in and through you,
Speaker 2: and for you to wait or look for with eager expectation.
Speaker 2: The Bible says, God says, I'll give you what you expect, hallelujah.
Speaker 2: It also means waiting with steadfast endurance. Is it says
Speaker 2: it's theological word book, Waiting with steadfast endurance is a
Speaker 2: great expression of faith. Notice steadfast endurance. It means enduring
Speaker 2: patiently in confident hope. Now here's what I like. Notice
Speaker 2: this that God will decisively actoo doggies. God will decisively
Speaker 2: act for the salvation, deliverance, preservation, soundness, and healing of
Speaker 2: his people. God will decisively act. That's what waiting is.
Speaker 2: I'm expecting God to decisively act for my salvation. I'm
Speaker 2: expecting it to God decisively act. And they that wait
Speaker 2: upon the Lord will remove, renew, exchange their strengths, replace
Speaker 2: their strength, and he'll mount up with wings as eagles,
Speaker 2: or run in our bury walking not faith. Those who
Speaker 2: wait in true faith are renewed in strength, so that hey,
Speaker 2: so that hey, it's supposed to be they so that
Speaker 2: they can continue to serve the Lord. Glory to God.
Speaker 2: Or maybe they were just saying, they'll be renewed in
Speaker 2: strength so that, hey, they can continue in strength serve
Speaker 2: the Lord. But notice, we need strength to continue to
Speaker 2: serve the Lord. See a lot of great people that
Speaker 2: are great at starting, poor finishers that start to run
Speaker 2: the race and never finish it. Where to be marathonors? Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: It's a lot easier to run a dish and it
Speaker 2: is a marathon. A lot of people in the Christian life,
Speaker 2: they just want to be dishers, they want to be marathoners.
Speaker 2: We're in this for the long haul. They shall renew
Speaker 2: their strength. Now again the word wait upon. Go back
Speaker 2: to Isaiah forty thirty one. If you will put that
Speaker 2: up there, they that wait upon the Lord Lord shall
Speaker 2: renew their strength the word wait upon. You can check
Speaker 2: this out and strong concordance others and the Hebrew. One
Speaker 2: of the meanings is to bind together by twisting. That's
Speaker 2: where the exchange takes place. Now again some we're not here,
Speaker 2: so I want to illustrate it again. Thusly, if this
Speaker 2: is to represent our life, right here, this twine, this
Speaker 2: is kind of how we are not real strong. I mean,
Speaker 2: this could be broken very easy.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy, so he
Speaker 2: can come to somebody's life and thank God, and just
Speaker 2: if the scissors are sharper, just snip, you know, just
Speaker 2: just take away from you, just steal, killing, destroy. You know,
Speaker 2: we're not much of it. We're not a match for
Speaker 2: the devil in and of our strength. But if we
Speaker 2: bind together by twisting, see this rebar here would represent God.
Speaker 2: And what do we do? We wait upon the Lord.
Speaker 2: We confidently expect him to act decisively in our behalf
Speaker 2: for our salvation, and we bind together by twisting. And
Speaker 2: what happens we take on his strength. This is your life,
Speaker 2: my life when we get wrapped up in God by
Speaker 2: doing those seven things and the things we're talking about today. Now,
Speaker 2: what does the devil God on his hands? He comes
Speaker 2: to steal, kill and destroy. He's just going to get dulled.
Speaker 2: I mean, we take on a super natural strength. Jesse.
Speaker 2: Let's see you bend that? What Caleb? Well, I now
Speaker 2: pronounce you Jesse in the name of Jesus. You work
Speaker 2: on that a while. We'll see if you get anywhere. See,
Speaker 2: that's how we are in Christ. We are strong in
Speaker 2: Him to get anywhere. No, see, that's how we are.
Speaker 2: There's if the devil doesn't have a shot. Now I
Speaker 2: know Jesse couldn't do it, but Kada might be able to.
Speaker 2: So we'll figure that out. We'll get Jesse to do it,
Speaker 2: all right. So this is you in Christ. You bind
Speaker 2: together by twisting, You renew your strength. You mount up
Speaker 2: with wings like eagles. You run and not be weary,
Speaker 2: and you will walk and not faint, going from strength
Speaker 2: to strength. Now two quick points here that I would
Speaker 2: also add, We're not gonna have time to get to
Speaker 2: I think we got them on the screen, though that
Speaker 2: I would add everything I've just said here for going
Speaker 2: from strength to strength. Guard your heart. Guard your heart
Speaker 2: Ephesian or Proverby four to twenty three. Guard your heart
Speaker 2: with all diligence. Out of it flow the forces of life.
Speaker 2: Guard your heart. Guard your heart, and secondly, guard your mouth.
Speaker 2: Guard your mouth. Proverbs eighteen twenty twenty one. Death and
Speaker 2: life are in the power of the tongue. Write these
Speaker 2: down Proverbs eighteen four. The words of a man's mouth
Speaker 2: are as deep waters and the wellspring well spring with joy,
Speaker 2: or draw water out of the well the wellspring of
Speaker 2: wisdom as a flowing bird. Proverbs eighteen seven. A fool's
Speaker 2: mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare
Speaker 2: of his soul. Proverbs ten eleven. The mouth of a
Speaker 2: righteous man is a well of life. It is amazing
Speaker 2: how many people want God's life flowing out of them,
Speaker 2: and yet their words are contrary to it. Life is
Speaker 2: intended to flow out of your heart like a river,
Speaker 2: but people stop it, and many times they don't even
Speaker 2: realize it. Your own words can be a wellspring of life,
Speaker 2: the wellspring of the life of God. So the Bible says,
Speaker 2: your words are meant to be a wellspring of life.
Speaker 2: I go to Fijian six and we'll close Fiesian six. Hallelujah,
Speaker 2: We're gonna look at be strong in the Lord briefly here,
Speaker 2: real quick. It just ties into everything we've said and
Speaker 2: about how to fight the good fight of faith. Notice
Speaker 2: something that Paul says here in Ephesian six, verse ten.
Speaker 2: Probably familiar about everybody in here, But sometimes the familiar
Speaker 2: verses are the ones we don't really take hold of
Speaker 2: because we think we know everything about them. Fijian six,
Speaker 2: verse ten. Now, Paul and the whole book of Ephesians
Speaker 2: has just laid out tremendous truth about who we are
Speaker 2: in Christ, who Christ is in us. But he says
Speaker 2: an amazing thing here in introducing the spiritual conflict and
Speaker 2: the spiritual warfare that we are in. Notice in verse
Speaker 2: twelve he says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
Speaker 2: but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
Speaker 2: darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Again,
Speaker 2: we are in spiritual warfare. This is battleground Earth. This
Speaker 2: is not playground Earth. It's battleground earth. For most people,
Speaker 2: they treat it like a playground. But it's a battleground. Now,
Speaker 2: the Lord, in his grace and his mercy, allows us
Speaker 2: to enjoy life in this battleground. He gives us richly
Speaker 2: all things to enjoy. Jeezid, take my yoke upon you.
Speaker 2: My yoke is easy, My burden is life. We can
Speaker 2: enjoy life here, but at the same time we are
Speaker 2: in battle, and we can never lose sight of that fact.
Speaker 2: We cannot take a vacation spiritually. When you take a
Speaker 2: vacation spiritually, then the demons go into double time. Do
Speaker 2: not take spiritual vacations, all right? So notice he talks
Speaker 2: about the spiritual warfare. And then here's Paul, this great
Speaker 2: captain of our salvation. I mean, I know Jesus the
Speaker 2: captain of our salvation, but I mean Paul is. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's a general in the Lord's army. This man has
Speaker 2: experienced the spiritual battles of life and the spiritual warfare
Speaker 2: like no one else, both personally and in those he's
Speaker 2: ministered to. And he gives a great order. He issues
Speaker 2: a great order to the church in this spiritual warfare
Speaker 2: and on letting us know how to fight the good
Speaker 2: fight of faith knows what. He says Leesian six'. Ten,
Speaker 2: finally my, brethren be strong in The lord and in
Speaker 2: the power Of his. Might be strong in The, lord
Speaker 2: in the power of his, might put on the whole
Speaker 2: armor Of, god that you may be able to stand
Speaker 2: against the wiles of the. Devil and they, says we
Speaker 2: wrestle not against flesh and, blood. Etc now think of.
Speaker 2: It Here's, paul this general in The army Of, god
Speaker 2: who's experienced it, all seen it all the. Church he tells,
Speaker 2: us you and me in this warfare we are in
Speaker 2: this battle that we are. In it's mind. Boggling but
Speaker 2: he says two, things and just. Two he, said two
Speaker 2: things are offered for you to stand in the evil.
Speaker 2: Day number, one be strong in The. Lord number, two
Speaker 2: put on the whole. Armor and that's. All that's, all he,
Speaker 2: says those two. Things and we need one in order
Speaker 2: to do. Two we need to strength of The lord
Speaker 2: to effectively wear the. Armor and we need two in
Speaker 2: conjunction with. One we can't wear the armor for not
Speaker 2: strong in The. Lord you Have christians on both sides
Speaker 2: of that that some people just focus. On, Oh i'm
Speaker 2: just strong in The, lord And i'm just waiting on
Speaker 2: The lord And i'm just worshiping, him which is wonderful and.
Speaker 2: Great then you got other people that are, just, Yeah
Speaker 2: i'm in the. Battle you, Know i'm fighting The. LORD
Speaker 2: i got the armor on. That we need them. Both,
Speaker 2: now the key is the word be strong in The.
Speaker 2: Lord in The, greek it's a. Word it's a word
Speaker 2: which means to be in. Strengthened it's not a it's
Speaker 2: not self. Effort we tend to read this and it's
Speaker 2: like self, effort LIKE i gotta buy my own willpower
Speaker 2: and the grid of my. Teeth i'm going to be
Speaker 2: strong in The. Lord that's not what The greek is.
Speaker 2: Saying in, fact put it up in the verse tens
Speaker 2: He esian six y. Ten put it up in The Amplified.
Speaker 2: Bible we'll see just what it's. Saying it's not to self.
Speaker 2: Effort it's through the grace Of, god the love Of,
Speaker 2: god the mercy Of, god to receive his strength and his.
Speaker 2: Power notice The amplify brings it out well in, conclusion
Speaker 2: be strong in The. Lord and we tend to, think,
Speaker 2: well that's self. Effort but then here's what The greek
Speaker 2: word means be empowered through your union with. Him. Hmmm
Speaker 2: sounds a little like bind together by. Twisting be empowered
Speaker 2: through your union with. Him you're binding with. Him be
Speaker 2: empowered through your union with. Him draw your strength from,
Speaker 2: him that strength which his boundless might. Provides. Hallelujah draw
Speaker 2: your strength from, him not through self, effort but through
Speaker 2: your union with. Him now it's a. Word, Okay, well
Speaker 2: well let's go. On so he, says be strong in
Speaker 2: The lord and then the power of his. Might and
Speaker 2: then he, says put on the whole armor Of. God
Speaker 2: put it.
Speaker 4: On.
Speaker 2: This these two words to be, strong to, be and
Speaker 2: to put on they speak of being closed with being clothed.
Speaker 2: With this idea of putting on the strength Of god
Speaker 2: is to Receive god's, strength his. Empowerment and putting on
Speaker 2: the armor is, yes clothing ourself with the, armor but
Speaker 2: it's much. More the best WAY i can illustrate it
Speaker 2: here is is my. Coat. Here if this were to
Speaker 2: represent the strength of The lord and the armor Of,
Speaker 2: god it's one thing to put it. On. Okay So
Speaker 2: i'm putting on the strength the armor Of. God so
Speaker 2: that's one. Thing but this idea of putting On it
Speaker 2: means also in the, original to be clothed with and
Speaker 2: to sink down, into to sink down Into what is
Speaker 2: that talking. About it's talking about the qualities Thereof assume
Speaker 2: the qualities of the strength of The. Lord assume the
Speaker 2: qualities of the armor Of. God in, fact most folk
Speaker 2: don't realize, this but in The greek this is a
Speaker 2: once for all. Thing it, says put it on and
Speaker 2: keep it, on never take it. Off i've heard much
Speaker 2: teaching on, it where every day you got to put
Speaker 2: on the. Armor And i'm not against. THAT i think
Speaker 2: it's good to renew. Ourselves but the idea in The
Speaker 2: greek is to put it on and never take it.
Speaker 2: Off put on the whole armor Of, god sink down into,
Speaker 2: it assume its. Qualities Now HERE i can illustrate. IT
Speaker 2: i believe this. Way IF i put on this, coat
Speaker 2: that's one. Thing if and this represents the strength of The,
Speaker 2: lord the armor Of. God but IF i put this
Speaker 2: on and never take it, OFF i assume the qualities
Speaker 2: of this. Coat in, fact you and other people be talking,
Speaker 2: about does Pastor tim never take that coat? Off EVERYWHERE
Speaker 2: i see, him he's got that coat, On, penny does
Speaker 2: he ever take. On he sleeps in, it he, does you,
Speaker 2: Know and it's like he gets he. Does he that's
Speaker 2: all he ever. Wears is that. Coat that's? It, WELL
Speaker 2: i mean something underneath, it, obviously but, uh that's the.
Speaker 2: Idea if every time you saw me walking, winter, spring,
Speaker 2: summer or, fall you saw me in, church outside of,
Speaker 2: church saw me at home, OUTSIDE i had this coat,
Speaker 2: ON i MUST i have assumed the qualities of this,
Speaker 2: coat this, coat AND i become. ONE i become as
Speaker 2: known by this coat AS i do anything. Else you
Speaker 2: ever Met Pastor Tim, no he goes around all the
Speaker 2: time in the black. Coat, OH i know you're talking.
Speaker 2: ABOUT i become known by this. Coat and that's what it's.
Speaker 2: Saying put, on sink down, into assume uom the qualities Of.
Speaker 2: Yahweh be empowered By, yahweh and put on the whole
Speaker 2: armor Of. God have the shield of, faith your helmet of,
Speaker 2: salvation your feet shop with the preparation of The gospel of,
Speaker 2: peace your lorn's gird about with, truth the sword of The,
Speaker 2: spirit the shield of, faith the breastplate of. Righteous to
Speaker 2: sink down into and just wear it all the time
Speaker 2: of people say that person's always ready for. Battle they
Speaker 2: are strong in The. Lord all, right we'll close with.
Speaker 2: This why do we need to be? Strong why do
Speaker 2: we need to be empowered in The? Lord i'll give
Speaker 2: you five. Things Number, one because of the power of the.
Speaker 2: Enemy we have a formidable. Foe he's a defeated, foe,
Speaker 2: yes but he's. Formidable, nonetheless somebody, said, well how can
Speaker 2: it be be formidable if he's. Defeated, well best ILLUSTRATION
Speaker 2: i can give you is the mafia totally against the
Speaker 2: law for them to operate in this. Country they're, defeated,
Speaker 2: basically but they're. Formidable foe organized, crime even though it's totally.
Speaker 2: Illegal the devil it's illegal to do what he's, doing
Speaker 2: but until the law's, enforced he'll get away with, it all.
Speaker 2: Right number, two we need to be empowered in The
Speaker 2: lord because of the power of the. Enemy, secondly because
Speaker 2: of the evil. Day The bible goes on to say
Speaker 2: here in a sesion six about having standing in the evil.
Speaker 2: Day we are in an evil, day oh as much
Speaker 2: as any time we are in an evil. Day just
Speaker 2: look at the, headlines this stuff going. On it's crazy out.
Speaker 2: There we're in an evil. Day so we need the
Speaker 2: whole Armor. God we need supernatural power to withstand the evil. Day,
Speaker 2: thirdly for your, sake for my, sake we need to
Speaker 2: be empowered in The lord to avoid personal. Failure AS i,
Speaker 2: said the devil is a formidable, foe and in order
Speaker 2: to avoid personal, failure we need to be empowered in The.
Speaker 2: LORD i, mean some of the best Of god's people have. Fallen, Adam, Abraham, Moses,
Speaker 2: david a man After god's own, heart a worshiper like
Speaker 2: this world has never. Seen nonetheless Fell we face a formidable, Foe,
Speaker 2: PETER i will never deny. You. Lord three, Times, peter
Speaker 2: we face a formidable. Foe realize your own. Weakness go
Speaker 2: through self, Examination, lord search me Of, god know my,
Speaker 2: heart try, me know my. Thoughts see if there being
Speaker 2: wicked weigh in. Me put on the. Army put on
Speaker 2: the strength of The. Lord for your own. Sakes, fourthly
Speaker 2: for his, sake For god's, sake realize we are a
Speaker 2: part Of god's. Army we're a part Of god's. Family
Speaker 2: we need to be strong for the rest of the,
Speaker 2: army for the rest of the. Family you, know, really
Speaker 2: we oftentimes don't realize, this but in the spiritual warfare
Speaker 2: that we are. In it's not you against the. Devil
Speaker 2: it's the family Of, god the army Of god against the.
Speaker 2: Devil an individual soldier when he's in, battle it's not
Speaker 2: him against that other. Nation it's him as a part
Speaker 2: of the army that's against that other. Name we need
Speaker 2: to realize we are hooked. Up we are to fight
Speaker 2: with and for one. Another we tend to think that
Speaker 2: all this spiritual warfare is just one on. One it's
Speaker 2: not that we're part of the, army the army Of.
Speaker 2: God he is The lord of the. Armies yahweh Sab,
Speaker 2: Us he's our, captain. Hallelujah so for his, sake and then,
Speaker 2: lastly for The gospel, sake we need to be strong
Speaker 2: in The lord and in the power Of his. Might
Speaker 2: it is a powerful witness to the world to. Unbelievers
Speaker 2: when you are strong in the valley Of, bakah when
Speaker 2: you are strong all through life and in Your christian,
Speaker 2: walk it's a powerful witness to the world that. PERSON
Speaker 2: i know what's going, ON i know what's come against,
Speaker 2: them and they just exhibit a strength THAT i can't even,
Speaker 2: imagine or you can say it's because Of. Jesus how
Speaker 2: do you do, it it's because Of. Jesus, Hallelujah. HALLELUJAH
Speaker 2: i just saw a clip JUST i Watched Ohio state
Speaker 2: get beat last night and THE Nc DOUBLE a, Tournament
Speaker 2: so that's the end of it there for me pretty.
Speaker 2: Much but at the same, time right after, that another,
Speaker 2: channel they had THE Nc DOUBLE A Wrestling, championships Which
Speaker 2: i'm not into, wrestling but they've got a guy that
Speaker 2: is just one of the most outstanding wrestlers who's ever competed,
Speaker 2: Collegiately Kyle snyder For Ohio. State he's in the heavyweight
Speaker 2: and this guy is has won so many, matches he's
Speaker 2: barely ever been. Beat he's An olympic, Champion he's won international.
Speaker 2: Feats AND i knew that he was going to be
Speaker 2: wrestling and that game was, OVER i, thought, well that's on.
Speaker 2: NOW i just flipped over real, quick and there he was.
Speaker 2: Wrestling he just started his, match And i'd heard this
Speaker 2: guy was A, christian BUT i didn't know much more about.
Speaker 2: Him he won the, match THIRD Nc DOUBLE a championship
Speaker 2: he's won in his four years of collegiate. Athleticism plus
Speaker 2: he's wrestled in The olympics and won a Gold medal
Speaker 2: and all, this And i'd heard about. Him so they
Speaker 2: interviewed him at the end and they, said, well you,
Speaker 2: know it's a close, decision three to. Two and he
Speaker 2: said a few things about, it and then he, said
Speaker 2: and as, always all glory goes To Jesus, christ My
Speaker 2: savior And. Lord, YES i mean this guy is like
Speaker 2: who you, know and there's always all glory goes To Jesus,
Speaker 2: christ My savior And. Lord is that a witness or?
Speaker 2: Not people think all these mamby pamby Wimpy. Christians world
Speaker 2: deal with? Him would? You when we are strong in The,
Speaker 2: lord it is a witness to the. World don't look
Speaker 2: to the. Enemy don't look to your personal, weaknesses don't
Speaker 2: look to the evil. Day look to The. Lord look
Speaker 2: to his, Strength look to The Holy. Ghost take hold
Speaker 2: of the strength of The. Lord take hold of the
Speaker 2: power of The. Lord take hold of the dunamus of The,
Speaker 2: lord the dynamite of The. Lord i'll close with this.
Speaker 2: Statement to know him is to know his power and.
Speaker 2: Strength to know, him to know. Yahweh to Know jesus
Speaker 2: is to know his power and. Strength let's Pray, father
Speaker 2: in the name Of Jesus. Christ we thank you for your. Strength,
Speaker 2: Today Lord, god we thank you that we can be
Speaker 2: empowered In. You In Jesus mighty, name hallelu say this
Speaker 2: with me In Jesus, NAME i receive his. STRENGTH i
Speaker 2: receive his. EMPOWERING i receive being clothed upon with the
Speaker 2: strength of The, lord the empowerment of The, lord The.
Speaker 2: GOD i will be strong in The lord and in
Speaker 2: the power of his. MIGHT i will go from strength
Speaker 2: to strength because Of. Jesus out of. WEAKNESS i am made.
Speaker 2: STRONG i SAY i am, strong AND i say by
Speaker 2: faith the joy of The lord is my. STRENGTH i
Speaker 2: will shout Under god with a voice of, triumph, Hallelujah, Halloluah, Halloluah.
Speaker 2: Halloluah gory To. God who doesn't that feel? Good thank You, Jesus.
Speaker 2: Fathers we pray right now and receive the ties and.
Speaker 2: Offerings we worship you with our, Giving Lord, god we magnify.
Speaker 2: You we thank you for your. Provision we thank you
Speaker 2: for taking care of, us meeting our, needs watching over,
Speaker 2: Us Lord, god and we sow our seed into The
Speaker 2: kingdom Of. God. Lord we pray for those who may
Speaker 2: be giving to The Missions, project to the tailors In
Speaker 2: india that are over there just doing a tremendous, work
Speaker 2: and it's heavily Oppressive hindu atmosphere where they're cracking down On,
Speaker 2: christianity and they are sowing the gospel and Video bible
Speaker 2: schools all over the nation Of. India Lord, god we
Speaker 2: pray blessings upon all those giving to The Missions, project
Speaker 2: all those giving their ties and. Offerings we sow our
Speaker 2: seed and we believe for. Harvest we believe for increase
Speaker 2: In jesus's mighty. Name if you agree with, that say,
Speaker 2: amen all. Right robin's gonna bless us with the song
Speaker 2: as we receive the ties and. Offerings if you need an,
Speaker 2: envelope raise your, hand usher to wait on.
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Speaker 6: God, ladies there is no. High, no there is no
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Speaker 2: Hey, man thank, You. Robin great song to close, With
Speaker 2: hollowly Your. Father we pray over these tithes and. Offerings
Speaker 2: we believe for. Harvest we believe for increase for each
Speaker 2: and every one that gave In jesus'. Name. Holiday we
Speaker 2: got a few announcements before we do. THAT i just want.
Speaker 2: It we're going to play a short clip, here just this.
Speaker 2: Film we're Starting wednesday. Night it's going to run This
Speaker 2: wednesday and Next. Wednesday The god Who. SPEAKS i just
Speaker 2: want to see a little a minute or two of.
Speaker 2: This it'll minister to. You show talks about the, integrity the,
Speaker 2: infallibility The word Of god and how we can build
Speaker 2: our life on it and how we can be strong In.
Speaker 2: God thank you for. Listening we hope that you enjoy today's.
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