[SPEAKER_01]: I may never march in the infantry right in the cavalry, shoot the artillery, I may never fly or the enemy, but I'm in the Lord's Army.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, sir, I'm in the Lord's Army, yes, sir, I'm in the Lord's Army, yes, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery.
[SPEAKER_01]: I may never fly or the enemy, but I'm in the Lord's army.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, sir.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I just had to sing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I used to sing that with the children, Sam knows.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, if we're having children's church to choose this myth now, let us turn to the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 3.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ecclesiastes is written by Solomon, the wisest, as he is known, David's son, and once you turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 3, we're going to read verses 1 through 8.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says, and ecclesiastical chapter three, to everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven, a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted.
[SPEAKER_01]: A time to kill,
[SPEAKER_01]: and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up.
[SPEAKER_01]: A time to weep, and a time to laugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: A time to mourn, a time to dance.
[SPEAKER_01]: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones.
[SPEAKER_01]: A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
[SPEAKER_01]: A time to gain, and a time to lose.
[SPEAKER_01]: A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
[SPEAKER_01]: at a time of so, a time to keep silence and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time of war and a time of peace.
[SPEAKER_01]: God bless and honor the reading of His word and you may be seated.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you've heard these statements.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates war.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates killing.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates the military.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates soldiers, I've heard all these.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates law.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates ice.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates the president or presidents.
[SPEAKER_01]: And God hates kings.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are all stupid incorrect statements and quotes of the world's today.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, they're fake news.
[SPEAKER_00]: All fake news, every single one of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're fake news.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're fake news and they're definitely not scriptural.
[SPEAKER_00]: But people say it all the time, sometimes you hear it, sometimes I've heard it a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the problem with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That a bit surreal.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not a one of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you hear it.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, in 1970, now, keep in mind is there at Vietnam War.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Vietnam War went from almost 20 years, 19 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people were killed, a lot of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: And...
[SPEAKER_01]: In that, I can understand what people were frustrated, because it was technically what they call illegal.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was it done correctly.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there was a song by Edwin Star, who I like this song, honestly, but the song is called War.
[SPEAKER_01]: Boom.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's it in it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Good for absolutely nothing say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to go through that whole all the lyrics to pretty much the same thing all the way through you for it I've seen you know it what is what isn't what's it any good for that's not correct English, but that's what they say so he's wrong He's wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's it any good for absolutely nothing not true Does God hate war you hear it all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: God hates war is this a true statement
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're going to get to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: The title today is Sermon's War War.
[SPEAKER_01]: That style tastes Sermon.
[SPEAKER_01]: First question we have is, why is there war?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why is there war in the nation today?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I should say in the world today, are we as a nation at war, kind of, not necessarily, but kind of sort of?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to talk about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm wearing my camouflage.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm wearing a tie that I had made.
[SPEAKER_01]: I actually designed it and had made by company or kind of sword it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But either way, the reason we're going to talk about is because a lot of people talk about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see on Facebook and other places all the time how God hates war.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we need to talk about why there is such a thing is war.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this world.
[SPEAKER_01]: there is war because we live in a fallen world.
[SPEAKER_01]: We live in a fallen world.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: We live in a fallen world.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see in it, Genesis chapter 3, we live in a fallen world.
[SPEAKER_01]: And humans have free will and assume a nature to sin.
[SPEAKER_01]: So sin is why we have war.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does that mean that war is sin?
[SPEAKER_01]: Not not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not as a seri.
[SPEAKER_01]: But war happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: But war can be used to persecute the disobedient.
[SPEAKER_01]: for defense to gain.
[SPEAKER_01]: It can be used for good and it can be used for back.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do have a scripture for you, and that's Proverbs 21, verse 15.
[SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs 21, 15.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says this in Proverbs 21, 15.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, it is joy to do the just.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's joy to do their just, excuse me.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is joy to the just to do justice.
[SPEAKER_01]: But destruction will come to the workers of a Nickelodeon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nickelodeon is another type of sin.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when there is bullies in this world, anybody remember Popeye, you know all of Popeye?
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember Bluto, Bluto is going around Bluto and everyone, and Popeye, we get up and fight back, take his spinach and fight back.
[SPEAKER_01]: He fought, but he fought to defend all of oil, sweep, pee, whimpy, all the other people and himself, and that's what he would do.
[SPEAKER_01]: These bullets come in and fight, and he would defend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, some people might say, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pop, I should just take it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should have lost the spinach, to the losses, his wonderful jaw.
[SPEAKER_01]: She would have just taken it and lost his other eye.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people believe that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people believe that Christians are supposed to just take it and get their other eye taken out.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: I for no, after all, in that let's say he's supposed to turn the other.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know crazy looking chin.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not as aqua to Bible says.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are misunderstandings and they also don't realize that something that was symbolic.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it wasn't necessarily literal.
[SPEAKER_01]: They start to think that your supposed to just let people run over yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: They look at other bullies in movies.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to be Darth Vader, whoever they say, oh, people are supposed to just let the Vader take over and let the evil side of the force win.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or they'll take it with other things.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's someone beats you up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're supposed to just go, okay, beat me up.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, that's not how it's supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's take a look at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: War, is it, is God okay with war?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or does God hate wars, people say?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they answer, yes, and no.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, God is okay with war.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, God is not hate war, but God does hate sin.
[SPEAKER_01]: So war is usually because of sin.
[SPEAKER_01]: What kind of sin are we talking about?
[SPEAKER_01]: War is usually because of pride,
[SPEAKER_01]: words because of jealousy, because of selfishness, words usually because of the love of money, the love of power, money is usually power usually.
[SPEAKER_01]: And because of the disobedience of God, you can see all three and five words we're going to get to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, God allows war.
[SPEAKER_01]: He uses the battles to defend against warmongers, against power seekers, against bullies, as I just mentioned.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember being a school, y'all said your bullies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all said bullies in school.
[SPEAKER_01]: Usually they were bigger than everybody else.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I wasn't always bigger than everyone else, believe or not, but as I got bigger in school, there was always bullies, and I wasn't one of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it would come to a point where there's always younger people, smaller people, I don't want to use your web, but they were small, and they were getting bullied, and they would all look over it, me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Help, I can see it there, and there are big guys behind their glasses, and I'll be like, so I'll get up and I'll say, leave me alone.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're like, you want to fight, fill up?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hated that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hated it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But finally, I say, all right, you do it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I usually say, we're going to have a go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hated that because I was very kind, gentle, peaceful person.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be friends with everybody, but don't push me, and don't push the little guy who couldn't defend himself.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not right.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what America's doing right now, trying to defend other people, and yes, or else because if you let the bully take over, they'll take over the whole world.
[SPEAKER_01]: and Bluetooth got to have someone stand against them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's how it's got to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get your canismen as you get prepared.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's how defense has to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is okay with war when it's defensive.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is okay with war not because we need to be bullies and over and over and take over the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you have to be defensive and offensive if it's a defensive situation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go back to Pearl Harbor for a minute.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to be someone that came in and attacked us and we had to go back and attack back in order to fight and defend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, we'll be speaking a whole different language right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We would be a whole different nation that we are right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: The thing is, God will bless those who defend and especially going against warmongers, a power of seekers and bullies, especially when they're going to get salored.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back in World War II.
[SPEAKER_01]: Our nation was a nation who loved God and put him first.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nowadays, you see the loud folks, and I'm not saying it's most people, because it's not most people.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you see the loud squeaky wheels, they say, I don't believe in God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hate Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: All that stuff, they're stupid, they're annoying.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what you need to do is speak up too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about a loud obnoxious squeaky wheel, but you need to be courageous wheels, wheels of courageousness, and speak up to defend the Lord, to defend our nation, to defend Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't be cowardice.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go to Exodus 15-3.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see what is spoken about the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first of all, I want you to know what this is.
[SPEAKER_01]: X is 15 is right after, right after, they came across the Red Sea.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right after they came across the Red Sea, you remember how God opened up the sea, and they came across the Israelites, came across and God destroyed the Egyptians.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember that?
[SPEAKER_01]: And what happened?
[SPEAKER_01]: And probably the Pharaoh too, just so you know, I know the movies don't do that, but it's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what happens here?
[SPEAKER_01]: the people were praising God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Miriam was leading.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we find that later on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Miriam who's the the sister of Moses, and they say, I will sing unto the Lord for He has triumphorously the horse and writer thrown into the sea.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the gifts in the verse 3, it says, the Lord is God, my strength my shield, and I
[SPEAKER_01]: have come, some of the victory or something to that effect.
[SPEAKER_01]: It gets to first straight and says, the Lord is a man of war, the Lord is his name.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yahweh, the Lord is his name, praise the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is the man of war, the Lord is his name.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're to praise God, but Yahweh is a man of war.
[SPEAKER_01]: When people try to tell you that God is against war, no, He's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm not talking about that God once you go down, bully and people, take it over, but He does want you to defend, and defend his name, by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: When people don't know the Bible and that they try to use the Bible and mischused the Bible, remember who did that next this chapter?
[SPEAKER_01]: Three, I'm going to excuse me, and Genesis chapter three, who did try to mischuse the word of God?
[SPEAKER_01]: You know who the devil, Satan tried to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I don't know, it says, sir, but you know who it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on now, come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just because he's in disguise, doesn't mean he's not him, you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be brave, be courageous.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see what the James says.
[SPEAKER_01]: James shared the four one through two, one and two.
[SPEAKER_01]: James four, one or two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where do wars and fights among you come from?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do they not come from your lust that war in your body?
[SPEAKER_01]: You lust and do not have, so you kill.
[SPEAKER_01]: You desire to have and cannot obtain.
[SPEAKER_01]: You fight and war.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is talking about the old us.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's talking about the old us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Talk about the, the worldly part of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the worldly part of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have wars all their time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Folks, maybe you're having a war within you right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about this here in just a little bit, but if you're having a war within you right now, don't listen to the old part of you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't listen to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to Jesus Christ who's greater than you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You already know, first John, four folks that quoted all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Greeders, he's Jesus who is in me that he was of the world's Satan.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Graders, he, Jesus Christ, in Satan.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what does Jesus have to say about it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'll tell you what he says.
[SPEAKER_01]: It may have to be 24 or six.
[SPEAKER_01]: Turn with me if you will and mark it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mark this and Matthew 24 verse 6, you will hear of wars and rumors of wars, see that you are not troubled.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know you're troubled every kind of here, but war I have been to most my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've been troubled when I hear about there's a new war.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I remember in the 1990s, but we were not that sturdy 30 years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's hard to believe in.
[SPEAKER_01]: But over 30 years ago,
[SPEAKER_01]: And you heard about all the time, back then was CNN, huh, CNN, CNN, but back then you'd hear about CNN.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a net worth, about the only net worth at the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you would listen to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were always talking about war.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember when the Gulf War happened, you recall that in 1990 and 91 is when it really started.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it went through 1990 the end of it, and then it's 1991 and two.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in 1991, it only lasted for about half a year, not even that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I remember when it ended, they got a lot of leadership and they wanted people to continue to watch.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they had a commercial said, the golf war isn't really over.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they wanted you to keep watching, you know, and I don't remember the head of James Earl Jones do it or not, but you remember how he was all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they wanted you to watch it some more.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there was rumors of wars.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all through the 90s, we kept talking about going back to Saudi, going back
[SPEAKER_01]: It kept happening over and over again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember people even then saying, Pastor, talk about my dad.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pastor, are we gonna go back in a work pastor?
[SPEAKER_01]: What does it mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember one time in 1994, we were scared of death.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because my brother Matthew was an airborne.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's an 82nd airborne division.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Bill Clinton, the pastor, nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: The president at the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't mean anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: the pastor or the president, I'm going to say it again, the president at the time was about to send them into war and to battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were scared of death and why a stupid CNN fake news, they're about to send my brother and many other men into battle and they're that we're on CNN saying, well, right now they're right here and they're about to go, so they're telling these people who they're about to attack that they're right above you and they're ready to kill them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was really upset about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, they turned around and went back.
[SPEAKER_01]: The point is, is that we were hearing rumors, the worst old time people kept saying to my father, it's said, are we going to be a war?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is this going to be the last battle?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure you've heard of the last final battle over and over again.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, is God okay with war?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, yes, let's hear what it says.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's sanction war and battles in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's hear he's talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well,
[SPEAKER_01]: He dissanctioned war, oh, I'll give that to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's sanctioned war, and he sanctioned battles in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who was he defending?
[SPEAKER_01]: Who was he sanctioning?
[SPEAKER_01]: War is against?
[SPEAKER_01]: Who was he allowing to win?
[SPEAKER_01]: Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be careful, the anti-Semitic ones, we're on the news.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're on fake news, we're on CNN, MSNBC, and all you other liberal morons out there, I said it, I'm not taking it back.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fact is, you guys are talking anti-Semitic out there against the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Israel's chosen by God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm not saying I agree with those who say Jesus Christ isn't the Messiah, the Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, those people have been chosen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Abraham was chosen to be Abraham, the nation of many, and we should not be against them.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're wrong.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you shouldn't be wrong and I'm going to correct you if you ask me should we love those of these or even when they're wrong, would you love them doesn't mean you had to always agree with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I agree with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're defending themselves when people are trying to bully them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, God's sanctioned war to defend them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see what God says.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, first of all, Joshua chapter 12.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to quote it, but I'm going to tell you what God talks about.
[SPEAKER_01]: He talked about battles over kings.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mark that down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Joshua 10 to 12.
[SPEAKER_01]: He goes in and talks about whole lot of kings that God, Sation, and killed.
[SPEAKER_01]: He had them killed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: They were a whole bunch of groups.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't worry.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here in a minute, I'm going to tell you about all these groups.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to chronological order, but we're going to tell you about all these different groups in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are 17.
[SPEAKER_01]: at least, maybe more than 17 groups, almost 20 groups that God talks about in the Bible to try to destroy Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in case you get confused, sometimes it's because they come back again and again and again and like a bad horror movie,
[SPEAKER_01]: or monster movie, they kept coming back like a Freddy film, like a Jason movie, like screaming or whatever, they just kept coming back and kept coming back and just couldn't kill them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And part of that was the fault of Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: the people, the Hebrews, the Jewish.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because they weren't obedient to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: They weren't obedient to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: God told them to go into the Promised Land of Cainin that God had already sanctioned and given to Abraham.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when they went there, some said, oh, she joins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Big and tall, and I'm afraid to go in, only two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Joshua and Caleb said, oh, we'll go in, and we'll do what we gotta do.
[SPEAKER_01]: But all the others, the other ten who enters it, no, no, no, no, no, I'm scared.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they had done what God said, it would have destroyed the enemy, but they didn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were not obedient to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what we got to be obedient.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to be obedient.
[SPEAKER_01]: Always.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's talk about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They went for the land of Canaan Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: God made the land and gave it to Abraham.
[SPEAKER_01]: First, this is why people say, it's not really Israel's land.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, ignorant.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is Israel's land.
[SPEAKER_01]: God made it first.
[SPEAKER_01]: What people say, they were there first.
[SPEAKER_01]: No God was there first.
[SPEAKER_01]: God was there first.
[SPEAKER_01]: And before they quoted it for themselves, Abraham was there and God said, it's yours.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, he wasn't Abraham yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was Abraham.
[SPEAKER_01]: He came.
[SPEAKER_01]: and he saw and got said, it's yours.
[SPEAKER_01]: So don't tell me, it's like if someone living next door, it's decided they were going to give the land to this church.
[SPEAKER_01]: That would be great.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's say that they decided to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone said, oh wait, wait, wait, he can't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I saw it and I came and I decided to plant there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I say, it's my land.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, if the man bought that land and gave to the church, it's his not theirs.
[SPEAKER_01]: God made the land.
[SPEAKER_01]: God gave that land to
[SPEAKER_01]: Israel, to Abraham, his son Isaac, his name Jacob, whose name is Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: This Israel's land.
[SPEAKER_01]: At least 17 different countries tribes, groups where you want to call them, try to take the land through war, or through battle, through bullying, with Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's take a look at these empires.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are four empires,
[SPEAKER_01]: four empires that try to take the land.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now let's look at the empires.
[SPEAKER_01]: The first empires, Egypt, the empire of Egypt, and then the empire of Assyria.
[SPEAKER_01]: Assyria is connected to Egypt, and then we have the empire of Babylon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we have the empire of Persia.
[SPEAKER_01]: The meds are Persian tribe, so you know.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you hear about the meds too, but they're part of Persia.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll count that with them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But nowadays Persia or the meds, they're a part of Iran.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Iranis is Persia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we have other neighbors that they fought with.
[SPEAKER_01]: These were immediate neighbors of theirs, immediate neighbors, and they were neighboring enemies.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was Felicia, Felicia.
[SPEAKER_01]: You said, I've never heard of that, yes, yeah, they're the Philistines.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Philistines were there all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, it's Felicia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, Felicia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Philistines, they had five main cities.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why sometimes it's hard to tell, but they're talking about, because they're talking about the cities, the people from the city.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the five, McCallum five city states, the five city states of Felicia were Gaza, Ash-Colon, Ash-Dod, Ekran, and gas.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now in case you're not aware what gas is,
[SPEAKER_01]: Ham and his ugly brothers and cousins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great Americans, probably they made honor that giant looks small.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, you heard me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they made honor that giant looks small, but that's where they were from.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those were five city states from Felizget.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you had, and this was not a city state, this was a neighboring enemy.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's Aaron, you've heard of the Aaron Heights.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Aaron, that's also got another name of Syria.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you have the trans Jordan kingdoms.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are three trans Jordan kingdoms.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna go through those right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are the trans Jordan kingdoms.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do not take this one and say trans.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not talking about that, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: This just means they're partially from Jordan.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're by Jordan, the Jordan River.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you had Moab and Moab and Moab,
[SPEAKER_01]: by the way, with no Abby had sometimes a million nights who were with him, the mobile by some million nights.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are the people incidentally that came from the family.
[SPEAKER_01]: They came from the family of a, remember, a lot, yeah, they came from lots family.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you had that, then you had a, who else we have here?
[SPEAKER_01]: We have,
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we have Amon, our Amon, the Amonites, so that's Amon.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we had, that's number six.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have Edam, the Edamites, Edam, that was Esau.
[SPEAKER_01]: Eden means red.
[SPEAKER_01]: He saw that was his family.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Edomites.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we have number seven and the final of the immediate neighboring enemies, the Amalachites.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've heard of the Amalachites, the Amalachites.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they had them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you also had the indigenous Canaanites.
[SPEAKER_01]: The people who were from the land of Canaan that they went to, they were already in the land, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: They were not neighbors.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were a part of that land.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had the people who had known as the Canaanites.
[SPEAKER_01]: We hear about them.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Canaanites fought a lot of those people.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you had others too, who are part of the Canaanites.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had the hip tights.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've heard of the hip tights.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had the Amorites, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: You've heard of the Amorites.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had the parasites.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they had a lot of eyes, don't they?
[SPEAKER_01]: You had the hyphites.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had the GPU sites, you had all these, but listen what it says.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so now we've had, we've missed, just mentioned, 18 groups, 17, but then you also had the Meads.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to quickly go through them all again.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had Egypt, you had Assyria, you had Babylon, you had Persia, with the Meads, because that's part of the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had Felicia, Philistines.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, here's an extra part with Philistria.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had Gaza, Ascolon, Ashdog, Echron, Gath.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had Eram, you had Syria, same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: You had trans Jordan King.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dems, you had Moeib, you had Amalia, you had Edam, you had the Amalachites, you had the Canaanites, you had the Hittites to Amorize the Parasites, the Hivis and the Jibisites.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoo, now, Jeremiah, 51, 20, says this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna say the word you here.
[SPEAKER_01]: He is speaking to Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: God through Jeremiah is speaking to Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, you are my battle acts and weapon of war.
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, I just want to tell you, if you ever want to read Jeremiah 51, it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's speaking to them about Babylon.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's speaking about the meds.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's speaking about lots of different enemies.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's only says, you Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: you are my battle acts and weapon of war.
[SPEAKER_01]: For with you, I will break in pieces the nations and with you, I will destroy kingdoms.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: What does he say to David?
[SPEAKER_01]: And Psalm 144 one and two, listen when he says the David.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember all these nations are coming in all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're trying to take Israel and listen what God said to David.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Psalm 144, one and two, he says, Let's say be the Lord, my strength, who prepares my hands for war, and my fingers to fight.
[SPEAKER_01]: My goodness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer, my shield, and in whom I trust.
[SPEAKER_01]: who subdues nations under me.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is he for war?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, God is the one who put them into battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is the one who won the battle's form and by the way, when Israel was not following God, God is the one who left them lose the battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen, amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we follow God,
[SPEAKER_01]: We win.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we don't follow God, we lose.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does that mean every single time someone loses a battle, they are not following God, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what it does mean is when you're in a spiritual battle and you follow the Lord God, you will win.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you are not following God and you're following your own will, your own way, soldier of Christ, you will lose.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: People don't like to hear that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't want to think about being a Christian being one who's in battle, one who's having problems, one who's going through problems and warfare, but you are in warfare.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every single year, I try to have a sermon, maybe not always, but I try to have a sermon that talks about being a soldier for Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll probably do that this year, maybe not.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would definitely do it next year, but I will mention being a soldier for Christ because it's important.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a war going on right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we know all about that pasture.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've watched the news.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about that war.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about Iran.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about those things.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about Israel, though, like I said, I'd be very careful about taking on Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I was anybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not talking about the current war in the news.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about spiritual war.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's always a spiritual war earlier I told you that there's going to be battles and wars going on within you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You will always have spiritual warfare.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know why, I'm not talking about losing salvation, but I'm talking about losing a spiritual,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about losing your spiritual position.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about losing spiritual growth.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about losing closeness to the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about when you're walking with Christ, talking with Christ, going forward and following Christ, you feel strong, you feel like picking up the word, which is the sort of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, let me grab my sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which one?
[SPEAKER_01]: My king?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I like this game.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is based off the sword of him and I like it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like it a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I even cut my thumb on that one for that one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not with it before it.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, no, I'm gonna grab a sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's based off the Roman sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's my brothers.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to get back to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, I'm gonna get one myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a nice Roman sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what Ephesians is based off of.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna talk about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We need to grab the word of God, which is a sword, and we need to make sure we have it ready for the battle, because it's coming after you, and you need to make sure you have the word of God prepared, because the enemy is going to come after you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And someday, with the enemy comes after you, if you don't have the word of God to protect yourself and come back and combat, you will be taken down.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are you talking how I'm going to lose my salvation?
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're going to be hit and hurt and it's going to make you want to give up.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to make you want to give up.
[SPEAKER_01]: War is going on right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We see in revelations, by the way, I'm not going to read all this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll read some others, but in revelations chapter 12, 7 through 11, there is a story being
[SPEAKER_01]: I've marked that down if I was you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Revelation 12, 7 through 11.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are wars in heaven talking about Michael versus the Great Dragon, as Satan.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that's not a look into the future so much, although there will be a battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is, in a lot of ways, talking about the future, but in many ways, it's talking about the past.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: It talks about how Satan was defeated.
[SPEAKER_01]: and the future he'll be defeated as well.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this is talking about when ever he was the angel, you know, Lucifer, even though that wasn't necessarily his name.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we know he was an angel and he was defeated.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it talks about him being sent to the earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: As he is right now on the earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people like to say he's in hell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, that's mythological.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's myths that people tell many times Catholics.
[SPEAKER_01]: They like to tell that, Roma Catholics.
[SPEAKER_01]: They also like to talk about mythological gods.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't listen to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: The truth is, is he is here on earth, along with the other demons.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what devil means, demon.
[SPEAKER_01]: that he's defeated.
[SPEAKER_01]: It talks about in that very sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Talk to him being defeated in the future and already.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's already defeated by Jesus Christ on the cross.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because he didn't stay dead.
[SPEAKER_01]: He rose right up on the third day.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's already defeated.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words,
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though, even though it seems there's a battle going on and the we're going on, and there is a spirit to work on.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is already the victor.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can proudly pick up the Word of God, the sword, and know that God is the victor.
[SPEAKER_01]: And when you are with God in battle, you know you can hold up the Word of God proudly knowing, I am not ashamed of the Word of God,
[SPEAKER_01]: and you can know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be proud of Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Be proud.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says in 2 Corinthians chapter 10, 3 through 4.
[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, before we go there, look it up if you want 2 Corinthians chapter 10, 3 through 4.
[SPEAKER_01]: Know this that there is an inner war for us and inner battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what does it say in second Corinthians 10, three, three, four?
[SPEAKER_01]: For though we walk in flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
[SPEAKER_01]: For the weapons of our warfare is not carnal, but mighty through God to pulling down of strongholds.
[SPEAKER_01]: What are strongholds?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, these are weapons, situations of which the demons say, try to hold us down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said before and I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Satan wants to hold us down strongholds, weaknesses that you have, I have, we all have, why?
[SPEAKER_01]: So you don't go stronger in Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you won't be used by the Lord God to reach out to others.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they won't come to no Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that your witness will be poor.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that you will not be a strong, strong witness.
[SPEAKER_01]: And use of the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that Jesus cannot use you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just like this sword,
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm holding up now, imagine if this sword was weak, imagine if this sword had holes all through it, or if it had dots that should weakness and rest that destruction in this, and the Moeigus hit is going to be going to a million pieces.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how you are as a Christian.
[SPEAKER_01]: If your weaknesses are so many, that Satan keeps throwing at you strongholds and you allow it, that you allow your flesh to do the winning, that suddenly you're so weak that you are no longer a weapon of the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are a weakness.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also have one that looks very similar to this in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: This may not have well, may not have foam.
[SPEAKER_01]: I learned last Saturday night.
[SPEAKER_01]: Foley is not very strong.
[SPEAKER_01]: as I went to cut with an exacto knife, that phone went right through it, hit my thumb.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you got to be very careful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Phone is out of very good sword.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is how, this telling you, this telling you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The point is this, this is because it might look like a sword, doesn't mean it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you may think you have a strong sword for the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if it's not built strong, and your faith is not built strong, you are a weak, and it cannot defend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure if Satan is trying to have in strongholds against you that you are built strong in the faith of the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's what you need.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ephesians chapter six, 10 through 18, tells us what we need.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll try to quickly read that so we can end here.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I have two places to read.
[SPEAKER_01]: One's in Ephesians chapter six.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll be reading this next week too.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, verse 10 through 18, finally my brothers be strong in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in the power of His might, and I don't know what I said in the power of His might, not yours.
[SPEAKER_01]: Put on the whole of our God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: For our fight is not against flexion blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world.
[SPEAKER_01]: And against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, take up the whole armoured God that you may be able to resist in the evil day and have done all to stand their excuse me, to stand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, having your waist girded with truth,
[SPEAKER_01]: how you put on the breastplate of righteousness, having your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace, and above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to stand to excuse me, to extinguish all the fiery arrows of the evil one, take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Word of God is what's going to defend you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the Word of God that brings us salvation is the Word of God that's talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your arm is the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every bit of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you need to make sure that you stand strong with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say, I got a Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: How good is your Bible if it's when you go to open an episode?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it's never been used.
[SPEAKER_01]: How good is it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I got a phone that could read do you though.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a friend one time and told me, oh, I got it on my phone.
[SPEAKER_01]: But never opened it, never used it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I got news for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's cool that we can open up our phone and look up stuff I do, but I got news for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you go to a physical Bible, it does something more to your head.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just does.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a proven fact.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not just to each person.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really does.
[SPEAKER_01]: It does more for you to have your own specific physical Bible.
[SPEAKER_01]: It will help you.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have a hard time seeing, get a big Bible, get one that you can literally look at.
[SPEAKER_01]: It will help you to tremendously help you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says, pray in the spirit always with all kinds of prayer and supplication to that in be all alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.
[SPEAKER_01]: Keep praying for your brothers and sisters and Christ and never stop, never stop, never stop.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's one last that got a read to you before we end here, and that's Revelation's 19.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I love it, revelations 19 when people talk about war and warfare and they think God is against it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know we're in war, we're in war right now, spirits are speaking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen to this verse, this last verse, our verses, Revelation 19 11 through 16, anyone here love horses?
[SPEAKER_01]: I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the meaning of my name.
[SPEAKER_01]: I told you hundred times, lever forces.
[SPEAKER_01]: I told you one time I got on a horse and that horse went look back at me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I get it's ready to kill me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, hi, ho, silver said no.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, but I'm going to be on a horse someday and so are you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to go in the battle being led by the Lord Jesus.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't believe me, listen to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Revelation 19, 11, 3, 16, and John said this, I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse.
[SPEAKER_01]: He who said on it is called faithful and true, and in righteousness, he, that's Jesus, judges the wages war.
[SPEAKER_01]: His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are mini crowns.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has a name written that no one knows, but he himself, he is clothed with a white, was getting clothed with a robe dipped in blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: His name is called the Word of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The armies in heaven,
[SPEAKER_01]: close and finally in white and clean, followed him, that's you, on white horses, out of his mouth, proceeds a sharp sword with which he may strike the nations, he shall rule them with an iron septer.
[SPEAKER_01]: He treads the wine press of the fury.
[SPEAKER_01]: and wrath of God, the Almighty, on his robe, and on his thigh, he has a name written, King of King, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Folks, you are going to be in battle with the Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't mean with him, but you will be with him as he comes down and destroys all the enemies of him.
[SPEAKER_01]: You will come down.
[SPEAKER_01]: There will be a final battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jesus is the victor.
[SPEAKER_01]: So let's go over these questions again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why war on earth?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because of sin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is God okay with war?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's okay with defense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not bullying.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does God send you war for Israel?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're the victor.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's the victor of the land for those who are obedient.
[SPEAKER_01]: One last one.
[SPEAKER_01]: A spiritual war is ongoing, and God has already won God is already the victory through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and you are a part of is army.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you can be at rest tonight knowing that you are a part of God's army, and God is already the victory through Jesus Christ, our Lord and our Savior.
[SPEAKER_01]: So war, what's it any good for for the victory of the Lord, Savior?
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: verse 31, and think about what we just talked about in revelations.
[SPEAKER_01]: In Proverbs 2131, the horse is prepared against the day of battle, but victory is of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's about prayer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lord Jesus, we thank you for the peace that you give us.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know Lord God that you
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though none of us like war, none of us like battles, none of us like death, none of us like the thought of people, especially young men and women dying for our country, or any other countries, we also know that death and battles and wars are necessary.
[SPEAKER_01]: We pray right now that people reach out to you and be used by you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We pray that the wars that are being fought will come to an end.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not just the one in the nation, in the nations, but Laura, we also know the final battle will come.
[SPEAKER_01]: We pray that when it comes, we'll be right there behind you.
[SPEAKER_01]: For those who do not know if they are saved, I pray that this very day, they will know that a shadow of it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if right now they feel they're losing any kind of inner battles between their flesh and you, I pray they'll hand it over to you today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Laura God, that they will feel your victory.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray this in your holy precious name, amen.