Thou Art My Lamp

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Good evening, and welcome to another edition of What's Right, What's Left on this first day of March. twenty twenty six. And tonight, my very worthy co-host is none other than Josh Booth. Hey, Josh. Good evening, Pastor.

You ready to roll tonight? I think so. The title of this message is Trust in the Lord. and lean not unto thine own understanding. Right now We're seeing things that are happening, which we've been warning about here on this radio program.

We've been telling you since last summer. When uh so much has been happening in Iran and the people were of being being killed. And But then it got really bad in the fall where Uh as many as thirty-six thousand. They say thirty-six thousand Iranians were m were either hung or or shot by Uh the Ayatollah. and his gang of thugs.

And right now is what's taking place over there. And people were asking me why isn't Trump doing something? Because. People were Marching in the street carrying placards, help us, President Trump, please help us. And And you know, what we said then is, look, you know, y you you don't jump into anything real quick.

Trump is a strategist, he's planning. Oh, what he's doing right now He's doing two things. He's bringing that. huge military armada in And uh which is going to be a a very, very strong warning to these other countries not to interfere And also to Give the Itola and the others the incentive Uh to step down. He's given him an opportunity to leave.

And um And so I said right now what they're doing is he's They're taking the time, they're working with the Israeli intelligence They want to know where every one of those leaders are, where they can find them. because they want to cut the head off the snake.

Well, that's kind of exactly what they did. They cut the head off the snake, though. Although, out of Iran. Right now out of Iran. Uh the those that are Uh still in charge the second or third tier.

They're telling people the Ayatollah is still alive.

Well, Nobody's buying it. No. Here We also told you that Be aware, be very, very, very aware that Uh Here There's over one hundred we've known For a long time, that there's over 100. Uh Okay. Islamic jihadist training camps, terrorist camps in the United States, over a hundred.

The FBI, all the way back when Obama was in office, we were exposing this. But the FBI w and were told to stand down, stand down, And so the local sheriff's departments and that kept an eye on these jihadist training camps. And so Here, these are sleeper cells, a lot of sleeper cells.

Now, But we've told you time and time and time again how There's a confederacy, there's an unholy alliance Uh between They Radical Islamic terrorist. And The radical Democratic Communist party members, what are they called? Democrats. The Democrats will always support Uh Those that are against America Right now that's already happening. The leaders are coming out already.

And Uh scream insane. This is an unjust war. their organizing protest marches, I even know there's marches for What we're doing pro-Iranian or pro-American marches in the streets, there's also now. a number of anti-American, pro-Iranian, protesters marching. They they pop Los Angeles, they popped up all over the country, New York.

over the weekend.

Well Here Uh, just at two o'clock this morning. There in Austin, Texas we saw the first terrorist attack. Uh you had a a guy killed two and wounded five others wearing a Uh A lock bar. T-shirt. And pro-Iranian T-shirt.

Well With that. I'm going to start tonight's message in 2 Samuel chapter 22. And So as we go to Second Samuel chapter twenty two and again, The whole point of this message is to trust in the Lord. Trust in the Lord. Lean not unto thine own understanding.

Uh one of the things and we talked about today that we learned Uh As you always run Two. The fight The Bible says the righteous are as bold, they're as bold as lions. One of the first things you learn in the military We learned to run towards the fire, not away from it. When you run away from the fire you're an easy target, and you take it in the back. uh when you run towards it.

And that's not just when you're in war with foreign enemies Um, I was at the abortion mill some years ago. Where I was being shot at with high powered rifles, and I r I ran towards The fire weaving in between the cars. and as I got close they panicked and took off. Uh Because if I had tried to either run away from or you know, even get in my car, they'd probably got me. They they only missed me by inches.

And um These are people that of course All of those that hate God love death. And so We start with verse twenty nine. In 2 Samuel 22. For thou art my lamp, O Lord. And the Lord will lighten my darkness.

Well, Josh, what does a lamp do in the darkness? Provides light. Right. In the darkness, sir. as they're often Uh things in the darkness out there.

That the Holy Ghost allows us to see the obstacles.

sometimes very dangerous obstacles that lie ahead of us in the darkness. Uh And so The Lord allows that light. The Indwelling of the Holy Spirit to enlighten us, to open our eyes to that. He says for by thee I have run through a troop. By my God, have I leaped over a wall?

Well, Here He's making a very very good point here. This is King David And David is speaking Uh the a Thanksgiving of Psalm. Thanksgiving some And he actually did that. David did that. He He ran through the troops and he jumped over a wall, you know, and during the war.

He he said And as for God, His way is perfect. The words of the Lord is tried, He is a buckler to all them that trust Him. For who is God, saith the LORD? And who is Iraq save our God?

Well, you have two things there. Uh Josh Whenever it's referred to the Lord, it's referring to the second person of the Trinity, the Lord Jesus Christ. And whenever it's referred to as Iraq, when it's referred to the Father, it's referred to either as the Father or the Ancient of Days or But here This is referring to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so he goes on to say Oh. God is my strength and power and He maketh my way perfect.

He maketh my feet like hinds feeding And setteth me upon my high places. He teaches my hands to war.

so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation, and the gentleness hast thou made me great. Thou hast enlarged my steps. Under me.

so that my feet did not slip, Well here the Lord died for us He did for us what we could never ever do for ourselves. Uh The price for eternal life? was tremendous amount of pain and suffering. You know, Jess. Christ became sin for us upon that cross.

In other words, He took upon himself all of the sins of those all of those that were ever born and died, and will ever be born and died. were laid upon cross up up on Christ at that time. Do you know how Estimated many that are? Mm. It's estimated that from the time of Adam until to day The amount of people that lived and died upon this earth is close to one hundred billion, a hundred billion.

That's a lot of people. Yeah. And so now to think about, see, now this is something that's far beyond our potential to even begin Um to understand. is to have the sins of all of those people laid up on us. Um It's just uh it's unimaginable.

He goes on to say. And so Yeah. Again. He did for us what we could never do for ourselves. Hey.

shielded us. and he did it in in a gentle way. And he kept us from eternal damnation. He maketh my feet like hinds feet and sitteth me upon high places. He teaches my hands to war so that a bow of steel is broken in mine arms.

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation, and thy gentleness hath made me great. and thou hast enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip.

So Here When when trouble comes knocking There's only one true shelter in the time of a storm. And we find Joshua in Hebrews chapter thirteen. Verses five and six He says, Jesus said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.

So that we may Boldly say The Lord is my helper. And I will not fear. What man shall be? And what man shall do unto me? And so Here today, we live in a day when it seems it actually seems that the only thing for certain is that.

you can't really trust anything to be for certain, any more. Uh with AI. Uh it's just amazing uh Even the clips we have to watch very closely to try to make a distinction. And now they have people out there Uh even doing that to Bible theologians under AI, m making them say things they didn't say. And again, so we have to we're living in a time where We really, really have to be cognizant.

Uh A truly dark satanic influence on our society. And then, you know. With this, and there's Uh A lot of Again Uh The fear in the air. you can feel it in the air. People are uncertain.

Uh when we take a look at what's happening there, Josh. You know, Iran is China's only source of oil now that Uh Venezuela has been cut off. And that goes for Russia too.

Now you have North Korea saying Uh That uh It's very possible they could get into this war too. Which is not a very smart thing. And then Here on the day that that uh the day before The day before that we go into I ran. You have Afghanistan Uh and India going to war against Pakistan. And so you've got A very, very strange thing.

When was the last time you saw Hindus and Muslims fighting together? Uh Against other Muslims. I don't recall. Yeah. I don't I don't recall it either.

It's a little bit strange, isn't it? And so these are some really uncertain times.

So when all of these things are happening You have a Yeah, and and all of us You feel that when you struggle to try to make Life Easy. As you can For those around you. I mean, it's a you know, just did our own little spears that we're working on, only to have those you know, when people come to you and say, Alright. Pastor, could you help me? I have a situation here.

Could you help me? And They want you to help them. But they want you to do it on their terms, you know. Uh In other words, I just want you to go and do what I say. I want you to go.

to this person and say this or that, you know, and As often this just makes things tougher, harder than they need to be. And so This is uh uh another one of the Things that Um We have to deal with on a daily basis here at times. No. We live, like I say, in a very uncertain times. As I was writing this sermon, Josh Friday, as I was writing this sermon, I had just got off the phone with John McTernan.

We were discussing uh Friday Night's Radio program and of course You know, we were very concerned because, you know, the week before on Friday night we got taken down. All across the country, from coast to coast, we were taken off every station. which was during the last week of Pledge Week, the last day, which really hit us in the pocket book and hit us hard. And so here now We were discussing that and because of The strange things that tend to happen more often on Friday In that studio, than on any other night. And so, as we were discussing these things.

Um Some topics. Other topics were the Um The fact that America was calling for all of its citizens that are in Israel, To come home, to leave, to come home or to shelter in. place. Also, those in Iran, all the Americans that were, they were told to. to um Hide out.

If they can't leave, get out of there if you can, but if not, Hideout. And so Mm-hmm. Here With all of this happening Knowing now that we just cut off the oil supply for China, And Russia also We don't worry too much about Russia in that situation because they've got They're They've got more than they can possibly handle. L they've lost over a million men in that Ukraine war. And so The people in Russia are not real happy with their government at all.

China's economy Uh is is in the dumpster. They're hurting a lot of starving people there. And so Here Back on our homeland, as we mentioned before, we have over a hundred jihadist sleeper cells in America. You have the the communist like Atafa and others. Really, Josh, really?

The Democratic sponsored party. The Democrats sponsored terrorism. uh in our country today. And so here Uh You've got Antiphon them saying that they're going to move. the terrorist attacks, you know, instead of just burning down the cities like Chicago and uh that they're going to go to the suburbs and shoot white children.

Well, I can tell you, those that in the suburbs aren't not gonna take that lightly. And so, the whole point, the Democratic Communist Party in this country. are really trying to push us into a civil war in this country right now. And so here Uh I was watching. As they were going to Los Angeles to New York, uh to uh Michigan, you know, Dearborn.

and these other places where Uh The radical Muslims were gathering in their mosques. And they were praying for Allah to kill all Christians and all Jews. I mean, A lot of 'em out there were and you had people who would sneak in as Muslims whatever. And they would record this and And so this is happening now. Just like um in nine eleven when when the the World Trade Center went down and they attacks You had Muslims in New York and other cities uh celebrating all the Americans that were killed.

And so All of these things right now Our uh are things that would cause a lot of people. to worry. And so During Friday night's program, I told John McTurn and I said, John. We could be in war Uh We could be in war at any any moment. Uh with Iran and h how many of her North Korea, whoever would come in on this.

and s and shortly after Not long after we went off the air, sure enough, we were at war. I want to go to Psalm thirty four. Start with verse 1. In Psalm thirty-four. I will bless the Lord at all times.

His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul so boast. Make her boast. And the Lord. The humble sh She'll hear thereof.

and be glad O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord. And he heard me. and delivered me from all of my fears. They looked into him.

and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed. You know that word there, what that means there? That means that, uh There was a glowing, like a radiant glowing. Do you know how? When um When women are pregnant Often they they have like a glow.

Is it a different look, like a glow in their face? Have you ever seen that, Josh? I heard about Now, I've seen it. Uh My wife had that, you know, you It was something that that only comes I think when they get when they were with child.

Okay. And so that's what he's talking about here. If they looked into him, he's looking. Those that were really seen The true Lord Jesus. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him.

and saved him out of his troubles. The angel of the Lord encampeth around the About them that fear him, and delivereth them.

So, when he's talking about the angel of the Lord. Jush. The angel of the Lord. That often A Christophany And it's speaking to directly to the the person of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He is the angel of the Lord.

When it says an angel. Or angels Uh Or the um up. Anangeler. Whatever, is not referring to the Lord Jesus. But here It's referring to Christophan.

And Again, the angel of the Lord encampeth around about them that fear him, and delivereth them. Does he have the power and authority to make a judgment on the spot? Yeah. Right. Does the Lord Jesus have to Does he have to get permission from anyone?

Like, all of the angels have to follow their orders, okay?

Now The Lord Jesus gets his orders directly from the Father. Uh do you have They when they call it the pecking order there, if you will. But from Genesis to Revelation It always works the very same way. God the Father gives the marching orders. God the Son carries him out.

And the Holy Ghost provides the power. And we see that starting with Genesis and creation. He goes and he says, Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. And again, that is what he's telling you there is to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus.

and receive eternal life. Oh fear the Lord. Ye his saints For there is no want to them that fear him.

Now Let me ask you this. Is he Talking to a group of people that have died and were canonized or. Is he talking about li to living saints? Living Saints. Yeah, you're right, because A number of the books of the New Testament start out to the saints and Corinth to the saints in Ephesus, We're not talking about people that have died.

We're talking about all of when do you become a saint? After you die. No. You become a saint the very moment you receive Christ as your Saviour. There's four categories of saints in the Bible starting out in the Old Testament.

The first mention of saints in the Old Testament was referring to angels. Angels are saints. Then he referred to the Old Testament saints, the New Testament saints, and then the tribulation saints. But When he was When Paul was writing to the saints at Rome or to saints at Corinth, Was he writing letters to dead people? No.

I I mean, they wouldn't read it, right? Right. And so So he was writing letters to those that are alive. Uh Somewhere Some people are missing this. You know, they're not picking up on this.

And so. He goes on to say The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. But they seek the Lord But they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

Now Boy I'm going to tell you a whole lot of churches out there, a lot of churches out there today. And I'm talking about real churches, actual real New Testament churches. I'm not talking about the apostate churches. But Josh, I don't know if you realize it, but The church attendance in the last few years have fallen off by more than 30%. Did you know that?

Yeah, I did. Yeah. And what's happening Even with our church, At one time we had wall-to-wall children in our church. I mean, we really had a lot of children. One thing about those children, if you feed em and water 'em, they'll grow.

And Often when they get grown they get married and they move away. Mm-hmm. And nowadays, you know, we you know, over the years we always had a steady flow. of young people, but all the pastors and those that are all feeling the very same thing. Uh Even The prosperity the the name it claim it grabbit stabbit Even, you know, they can't uh get people in there now with all of their prosperity bull, okay?

Uh greed is what it is. But The Lord Jesus said, When I return, shall I find any faith? Yet And so I know that a lot of our churches, we're looking at doers of the word. I'm looking for some young uh people. We need some young people.

That are um Especially computer literate. Uh but we're uh we're looking for some people that are like young lions, some people that have some fight in 'em. that are ready to run to this battle. Um if if they want to run with the horses, because that's what we've done. All of these years All of these years.

Josh, I can abs actually say You know With pure confidence, all these years that we've never ever. gibbin less than our best. uh in this battle if the The battle was a righteous cause we we always gave it our very best. And that's what we're looking for. We're looking for younger people to come and join us.

Now Here the young women have been affected more by the indoctrination than the men. The young men are more likely.

Nowadays to to turn towards the righteous cause conservatism, uh than the young women. And so What we we we really need to do is we really need to Um Well, we we need revival in this country. in a major, major way. People are are looking everywhere for answers. Except for where the answers are.

You know, it works this way. Have you noticed, Josh, that We men have a lot of problems. There's a lot on our shoulders, that's for sure. And Often we have a lot of problems and very few answers. But with God God's got all the answers to all the problems.

He doesn't have a problem at all, does He? No, He does not. And so Jinnah who recognized that There was a fellow named Albert Einstein. Did you ever hear of him?

Well, one day he said this God has no need to theorize. He knows the answer. And so That kinda that kinda says it all, huh? It does. Have you ever noticed that it seems like the most brilliant people in this world, the most brilliant, Are people with strong faith?

Most I I've got a list of the past the greatest scientists in the world. And the vast majority of them were all believers. Good reason for that. He goes on to say. Come, ye children, hearken unto me.

I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Yeah. Josh, the fear of the Lord is what? Uh being fearful of his commands and knowing that you need to follow him. The beginning of knowledge.

The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. And so In other words, He's kinda saying it. You people that don't fear God, you're dummies. In a sense. And that would be very true.

Uh Yeah. for people that it's it's not a very smart thing not to fear God, is it? No, it's not. He says here. What man is it is he that desireth life and loveth many days that may that he may see good Keep the tongue from evil And thy lips from speaking.

Guile Boy, those members of Congress should should read that, huh? They should try that. Yeah, maybe. I've never seen in my life. Did you know that during the State of the Union speech The Democratic women there.

the squa we're wearing buttons with the F bomb on it. We're wearing buttons to end in Congress there at the State of the Union. Uh unbelievable, okay? and the profanity the profanity When I when I was a kid growing up, You never heard women speak that way. If a woman used that kind of language, boy.

she would be outcast right away. I mean Um And and I I saw As a kid A man being arrested for taking God's name in vain Uh he he was angry. I he had been drinking. And back then that was against the law. And he was taking God's name in vain, and the police arrested him right across.

Well, not just across, just a. Uh Probably no more Then uh Oh, I would say fifty yards from where I was, I could hear everything that was being said. And here it was just amazing. That today what they do. And it's exactly what God's word, the Bible says, the righteous will become more righteous, and the wicked will become more wicked.

The division between. the right and the left become greater and greater. He said Depart from evil and do good, seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off.

the remembrance of them from the earth. Uh When is that going to happen? It's gonna happen. At the end of the millennium period there goin' be there'll be none left on the earth. He will cut em all off.

And it w he'll cut off the remembrance of them too, also. Hey, Josh, if I was to say to you, look, and people. How do how do I know? Look, you believe the Bible, right? You believe every word of the Bible?

That if I was to say to you, Why, why do you believe it? Faith.

Well, you have faith. And that that faith is your belief, but what is it Then what is it that says to Josh Booth, Look This is the ultimate truth. This is the word of God. This is the ultimate authority right here. the greatest source of wisdom and knowledge in existence Uh what is what is that What is would you say is the proof of that?

I would say that it's the Because uh How about this? You've got more than eighteen hundred Prophecies in Scripture. The oldest were made four thousand, four thousand years. in advance. Every single one that was made Came to part.

It was fulfilled exactly when, exactly where, exactly how.

Okay. You have 580 in the New Testament and over 1,200 in the Old. Let me just say. Do you know what the mathematical odds with all of our tech nec technology. that we have to day as to fulfill just three of these few these prophecies that were made in the in the future.

Yeah. The number was called a a goo-gooplex. It was like one with thirty two zeros behind it, and I I don't even want to try to f you know, go into all of that. In other words, mathematically it's impossible, okay? Um Just like When we talk about Uh, math.

Do you think Math i uh is a Perfect science. Is a Legitimate science.

Well, yeah, it is and So when you think about The mathematical Odds of evolution are zero. Zero. Can't happen. There has never ever ever been any Eddie. Examples At all.

Any instance, not one, Josh, where there's been a creation that didn't have a creator. Um well Maybe maybe on the mainstream News media. Or, you know. Or in a Democratic Congress you might have that. But not in reality.

And so here he goes on And he says The righteous cry. And the LORD heareth and delivereth them out of their Troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them. Letter of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit, You know, again scripture says that God will never ever leave us nor forsake us. He would never leave Mr Versankas.

And He goes on. I mean Is there anyone else that can actually make that statement that I will never leave you? or forsake you And uh be absolutely able to keep that. No. No, because There's nobody we know that can do that.

You and I. I mean, we might have the best of intentions. Uh but uh You know. If our soul is required of us tomorrow, it's not our call, is it? No, it's not.

So. That's why he tells you that Our lives span. Uh according when compared to the annuals of time, Our lifespan is like a vapor that appears but for an instant And then it's gone. And So That's the way Scripture says always say well Lord's willing, if the Lord will, I'll do this, if the Lord will, I'll do that. Because if God doesn't will it, if God's got other plans, if God says well, Uh sorry, gonna have to change your plans because today Your soul is required of you.

Then That's that's what's going to happen. It's not our call. God makes that call on us. And he we go on And he says Many are the afflictions of the righteous. But the LORD delivered them out of them all Uh, what do you say to people and say, Well, w well, look at me God didn't deliver me.

I believed in Him. I have faith in God, and yet I got all shut out. I wasn't doing anything. Just just standing waiting for my bus and and these guys come by and just shot me full. And I believe in God and I love God and I'm Uh Yeah.

He he didn't deliver me. What do you say to that?

Well, he also allows free will in the world and Just because we believe in him doesn't mean that everybody else will.

Well, that's true. But when he says the Lord delivereth him out of them all, There comes when we leave this world. When we leave this world, we'll That they and and receive our glorified body Will we ever be able to die again? No. Will we ever feel pain?

Nope. Can we ever be k you know, we can't be killed by being shot? No. Nope. Uh and then in any of these things, we don't have to worry.

We do. be concerned uh And by the liberal news media telling their lies are about crazy women out there screaming at trees in the forest. Or You know We don't have to be concerned about Governor Newsom doing some strange, strange things. out there in California. Boy, he's been doing some very strange things lately.

Or A governor Walls With his very strange things he's been doing. We don't have to be concerned. All of that strange thing to be done. Because when the Lord delivers us from all of our afflictions, He's going to deliver us from ever, forever. Forever.

We have a glorified body.

So if I was to say, Josh, look, you know, I know what it says here, but. How is that possible? What? I mean Why should I believe That God Could do what he says he'll do because he says, I have said it, I will do it. How can I why would it how can I believe that God can give me a glorified body that will last forever And never die again, and never be sick again.

What is it? Why should I believe that? What would you say? Because it says in his word and and You can go by what he's done in our lives. And You can just say, hey, this is where God's brought me, and just have faith that He's going to do what He says He will do.

All right, so when we take a look at the second person of the Trinity Uh his he's called the Logos, the Logos the Word. And the word was made flesh. And so the word became the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so In that there is truth, and we see that. If we we walk out, if I walk out at my house.

and I walk out of my back deck and I look up. I can see a big open sky out there. I can see stars are twinkling that are. Very, very far out there, okay? Uh And We know that out there in the universe there's billions.

Of planets And we know absolutely it's scientifically impossible to have A creation without a creator. It's never happened. No. Is there any better source? Has there ever been?

any better source of an explanation Of creation, where it all started, where we're at today, and where it's heaven or its heading. Has there ever been any source of explanation that speaks with absolute authority That comes close to matching the Word of God? No. Yeah. Not what at all?

Nothing, okay. And so Here Why is it that It's so hard to get people to understand that, do you think? Mm, probably 'cause they just want to lean on their owners own understanding. Yeah, well, that's what Scripture says, not to lean on your own understanding. I think.

You might find A good answer to that too. If you go over. Two. Second Corinthians and the Second Corinthians Yeah. In a chapter Well, let me go over there and see.

Is it Chapter 6, or is it chapter 4? I think it's chapter 4 in 2 Corinthians. Here's the answer to that. First three. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost.

In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them Which believe not. Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Okay, so here. I was talking to a lady And Uh I tr I was telling her, read the King James, use the King James, don't use one of those New Age versions.

Well And she said, I I I can't understand I don't understand it. And I said, What do you mean? She says, Well, I don't understand. She says, I don't know why. Other people seem to be able to.

I mean You seem to understand everything. I d I I don't understand it. And I says, Do you understand why you don't understand it? She says, No.

So I took her to this passage right here. Let me read those verses again. But if our gospel be hated as hid to them that are lost, Now now listen to me, 'cause I I'm telling her now listen here. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them.

which believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God, should shine unto them. And I says, Do you understand now? She said no. I don't understand that.

Well, I took some time and I explained it to her and Uh she had see, a lot of times You have people They give you sound bites of the Bible. They're little sound bites that you hear. Um they'll say things That That the Bible doesn't say, okay?

Well, one of the things when we would be preaching out at the abortion mills Often I'd I'd be preaching out there They would say, Judge not lest you be judged.

Now they knew that soundbite. And they wanted to use it. But what they didn't know, Josh, if you kept reading, Jesus wasn't telling us not to judge because if you kept reading, he says, but when you do judge. judge with righteous judgment. In other words, he's saying That You when you judge, don't hold other people up to higher standards than yourself.

You know, don't and so And it's the same thing When you hear these people say we're not to judge, well, no. Actually, Jo Josh, the Bible says Not only are we to judge, but we're to judge everything. Did you know that? Yeah. Yeah, here's what it says.

Uh But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for their foolishness unto him. neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. For he that is spiritual judges all things Yet in himself he is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may Instruct him. But we have the mind of Christ, so These people tell you we're not to judge.

Well, no, the Bible says we're to judge everything. In fact, Not only does it say that we're going to judge everything, It actually says that we're to judge angels. Here's what the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians chapter 6. Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world And if the world should be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we shall judge angels, how much more the things that pertain to this life.

If then, if you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge. who are least esteemed in the Church. Do you know do you know what he what he meant when he says of this life he's making a point set them that are least esteemed in the Church to be judges, Do do you understand what he was saying there? Not quite. He was telling you that A a babe in the Lord and a brand new born-again Christian is better qualified.

to make fair and honest judgments than an unsaved judge has been on the bench for forty years. And that's the point he's making here.

So I want to go back to where we left off here. In verse nineteen Many are the afflictions of the righteous. But the Lord delivereth them out of them. He keepeth all his bones, not one of them is broken.

Now this is a verse that Is referring to the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, okay. Um Here, remember when when they crucified when the Romans crucified They would break the bones of those on the cross so that they couldn't breathe and they would die quicker. But the By the time they got to the Lord Jesus, he was already dead. And that was Prophesies back in the Old Testaments that he would not have a broken bone, which is very unusual. for those that would be crucified.

Evil shall stay the wicked. And they that hate the righteous shall be desolate. The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants. and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate. And so With that, I wanted to Go over to Just for a minute.

Well I wanted to say that we are living in the days Of the unsealing of the book. Over in Daniel chapter 12. Verse 4 he talks about Daniel seal up the book until the end times. These things. And so he showed Daniel What life would be like in the days that we're living in right now, everything that's happening out there.

And And so, what we are witnessing with all of all of this happening. is the unsealing where we're witnessing, we're living the unsealing of the book.

Now It's another thing here. Do you know how many times In God's Word, the Bible. Josh, we're told to fear not or be not afraid. Isn't it like three hundred and sixty-six? Three hundred and sixty six times.

You're right, absolutely. Uh And so Here now. Fear and worry can never. Have you ever seen any situation where When you worried about something that ever did any good, Actually, to for us to worry, it's it's a lack of faith. It's a lack the show of lack of faith.

Worrying about things and fearing Things It can never do you any good, but it can do you a lot of harm. It could do you a lot of harm. In John 14, Verse twenty-seven we read this. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you.

Unto you, not at Not as the world giveth. Give I Unto you Let not your heart be troubled. neither let it be afraid. And then Over In Mark chapter 5 and verse 36, he says simply this: the Lord Jesus said simply this. Be not afraid.

Only believe. Be not afraid, only believe very Very quick answer there. And so, folks, that's my message out there to you because We're living in the day We're living in a day where things more likely you're going to see a very exciting summer this summer, okay? uh the opposition, they're pushing hard for a civil war. Wars come and go, but let me tell you something.

You could be killed. You could be killed. Any time. It's not a tragedy to die. Everybody's going to die.

To die in your sin, it's a tragedy. To die in your sin, They cannot. It cannot be undone. You cannot. And so, what am I telling you?

Right now, when you hear the preacher give an invitation. The preacher It's just a messenger. The message is coming from God. And if you're listening to me tonight, And you have never asked the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart. God is telling you now's the time to do that.

God's telling you now's the time to do that. Don't die in your sin. You can have eternal life. Here's what you do. Here's what Jesus said.

Pray to the Father. Ask for forgiveness of your sin. God will always honor a commitment if you're serious. God will always honor that. Then you call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to be the Lord of your life all of your life, without any reservation.

Look, He tells you now. Remember, when he took your place in that cross, he esteemed you higher than himself.

Now. You have to esteem him higher than everyone. Including yourself.

So you call upon his name. You put him first, without any reservations. When you do that. You will become a new creature. God has never failed in anything.

He's always done what he's said. You will become a new creature. a born again believer and heir of the kingdom, And you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. No. Here It doesn't happen all at one time.

you as a as you as a babe in the Lord, you have to learn how to crawl and then walk. But when you are in obedience You'll grow in the faith. I know that we're out of time for tonight.

So when we get up to this point As we do every night at this time. When we say Thanks. Thanks for being here. Good night. God bless all of you out there.

And then always, always, always, and we do mean always, keep. Fighting the fight. Fight. Fight. Fight.

Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight Alright.

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