everybody please take your seat welcome to sure foundation baptist church first
song we're gonna be singing is song 397 in your hymn books song 397 in your
hymn books little is much when God is in it song 397 the first in the hall is
filled now ripen there's a word for all to do park the voice of God is calling
to the hall calling you a little is much when God is in it labor not for wealth
or fame there's a crown and you can win it if you'll go his name does the play
your call to labor seems so small it'll know he'll not is in burnout for wealth
or fame a crime and when side from service I'm toil and care can still the
same place of prayer much when God ever not you'll go come home when God is in
burnout for wealth or fame there's a crown and when men brother Christian
could you please open us up with a word of prayer amen amen all right next song
406 406 in your hymn books who is on the Lord's side who is on the Lord's side
anybody all right on the first who is on the Lord's side who will serve the King
who is have lives to bring side who is the father who's beside with a blood to
us willing that makes the tribes divine now for some announcements you should
foundation Baptist Church on the afternoon service if in the bulletin
please raise your hand and I shall will bring one to you the verse the week
escalations 1 8 Bible says but though we or an angel from heaven preach any other
gospel unto you then that which we have preached unto you let him be accursed
because a false gospel is damning people to hell and let's look at inside page
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down so we have service Sunday morning at 11 Sunday afternoon service at 4 and
Wednesday night Bible study at 7 p.m. this Wednesday we'll be finishing up Acts
chapter 2 talking about Peter's sermon leading up to 3,000 salvations and then
we have someone in time Saturday after Saturday morning at 1030 and Sunday
afternoon sermon at 1 p.m. and today we have two salvations praise the Lord and
yesterday we had a fun time at Bloomington IU Bloomington we had seven
so winners and 24 salvations so the next big so many event is the indie is the
indie 500 so please join us if you are able to also we're going to Chicago
State in June and then Purdue next so lots of great event coming up also next
Sunday is Mother's Day every mother in attendance will receive a special gift
you don't have to work for that okay so it's a free gift I mean I mean it may
not last forever but depends on how you take care of it so but everybody will
receive a special gift it may or may not be a Mother's Day sermon just depend on
how I feel but we shall see also the baby shower for the stocking family will
take place right after the afternoon service on May 17 so it's coming up in
two weeks so please you know ladies get with my wife hopefully today after the
service to discuss some of the details also on May 24th we'll be meeting at a
different location due to the Indy 500 on the road blockage whatever so we'll
be doing the same thing as last year we meeting at a separate location and then
we're gonna have the morning service and then we're gonna have some fancy pizza
for lunch and then we're gonna go sewing there'll be no afternoon service
for that one service alone there's that also I forgot to update the Mays on the
afternoon preaching schedule but today this afternoon Brother Brad will be preaching
for us and next week is Brother Rashid and then Brother Jerry follow after and then
there'll be no afternoon service on the last Sunday of May yeah there's that on
the back you can see the birthdays coming up for the month of May there's
no upcoming birthdays this week so I'm just gonna pass on that so let's sing
one more song and then we'll take up the offering all right next song song 178
song 178 in your handbooks song 178 play the intro again please first I am so
glad that our father and have tells of his love in the book he has give
wonderful things in the Bible I see. This is the dearest that Jesus loves me. I am
so glad that Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. Jesus loves me. I am so glad that
Jesus loves me. Jesus loves even me. Though I forgive him and wander away, still he
love me wherever I stray back to his dear loving arms would I flee when I
remember that Jesus loves me I am so glad that Jesus loves me Jesus loves me
Jesus loves me I am so glad that Jesus loves me Jesus loves even me oh if
there's only one song I can sing when in his beauty I see the great King this
shall my song in eternity be oh what a wonder that Jesus loves me I am so glad
that Jesus loves me Jesus loves me Jesus loves me I am so glad that Jesus loves
me Jesus loves even me all right ushers please come up brother Matt can you
please pray for the offering be reading from James chapter 5 James chapter 5
chapter will be read James chapter 5 go to now ye rich men weep and howl for
your miseries that shall come upon you your riches are corrupted and your
garments are moth-eaten your gold and silver is cankered and the rest of them
shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh
as it were fire he have heaped treasure together for the last days
behold the hire of the laborer who have reaped down
your fields which of you is kept back by fraud cry
and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the lord
of seboath ye have lived in pleasure on the earth
and been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in a day
of slaughter ye have condemned and killed the just
and he doth not resist you be patient therefore brethren
unto the coming of the lord behold the husband men waiteth for the precious
fruit of the earth and have long patience for it until he
received early and latter rain be also patient
establish your hearts for the coming of the lord drawth nigh
grudge not one against another brethren lest ye be
condemned behold the judge standeth before the door
take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the lord
for an example of suffering affliction and of patience
behold we count them happy which endure ye have heard of the patience of joe and
have seen the end of the lord that the lord is very pitiful and of
tender mercy but above all things above all things my
brethren swear not neither by heaven neither by the earth
neither by any other oath but let your yea be yea
and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation
is any among you afflicted let him pray is any merry let him sing psalms
is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church
and let them pray over him anoint in him with oil in the name of the lord
and the prayer and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the lord shall
raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall
be forgiven him confess your faults one to another
and pray one for another that ye may be healed
the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that
it might not rain and it rained not on the earth by the
space of three years and six months and he prayed again and the heaven gave
rain and the earth brought forth her fruit
brethren if any of you do err from the truth and one com
and one convert him let him know that he which converted the sinner
from the error of his way shall save a soul from death
and shall hide a multitude of sins brother rashi could you pray to the
service so you guys are in uh james chapter five
if you look at uh verse number seven it says uh be patient
therefore brethren unto the coming of the lord
behold the husbandmen waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth
and long hath long patience for it until he received
the early and latter rain be also patient
establish your hearts for the coming of the lord draweth nigh
so the title of my sermon is having patience so
obviously in our modern uh definition of having patience you would just think of
like being patient waiting for a traffic light or
just you know waiting for something but in the bible
obviously i think you can use that definition for a lot of it
but it's more uh usually in reference to like
enduring some sort of affliction or hard times are happening in the context
of it but i think still you do have to be patient and wait for that to be over
but the definition um here is the term
patience in the context the 1611 king james is deeply rooted in the concept of
suffering and enduring unlike modern definitions that often
imply passive waiting the 1611 understanding
is active and robust referring to the strength
to bear heavy burdens or long term trials without losing heart
so i still think you you know our definition of patience still kind of
you can use it applies but usually it's in reference to like this chapter of
bad things happening um and in verse number eight it says uh the
coming of the lord so obviously we're not pre-trib here so you know
when you talk about the coming of the lord usually you think about the great
tribulation bad things happening um and lots of affliction so if you guys would
turn to Romans chapter five so obviously I think in our life you know in America
we don't really have much that causes us to have patience like the people in the
Bible right we don't have people like trying to kill us or attack us and most
of the trials that we have are burdens of stuff that we kind of put on our self
right you do research and look at things so a lot of people worry about you know
AI AI and sir you know the surveillance cameras and the police state stuff
automatic shut off of cars is a big thing now people are talking about
obviously evil people running the world you can spend all your time looking up
things that evil people are doing all over the world unconstitutional laws
that are being passed and you know different types of censorship justice
not being served so you have evil people walking around all over the place and
obviously you know inflation and in wars and there's just endless things that you
can kind of put on yourself that cause you to think like man I'm going through
a lot of tribulation or hard times or I got to suffer all this stuff but in
reality if you turned off the internet and you didn't look anything up we
wouldn't really suffer anything other than hey maybe somebody slams the door
in your face at soul winning right but obviously we can see through looking into
things that things could get bad in our lifetime or our kids lifetime or you
know some people's grandkids lifetime at some point you just see the laws and
think hey this is an important subject to look into because at some point we
will have to go through the Bible definition of patience and not just
things that we think about as you know waiting too long at the McDonald's
drive-thru or something. So before we get to Romans 5 I'm going to read Psalm 94
in verse 1 it says, "O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth, O God to whom
vengeance belongeth, show thyself, lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render
a ward to the proud, Lord how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked
triumph." So obviously in our lifetime we can do the same thing right like how
long before people get judged how long you can allow you know the people that
you know oppress us and do all types of things like human trafficking and drugs
and you know murder how long you let these people do bad things but
obviously you know God at some point is going to judge me after trust and have
the patience to let him do it in his time and in Romans chapter 5 verse 3 it
says and not only so but we glory in tribulations also knowing that
tribulation worketh patience so obviously here you have tribulation and
then patience tied together so obviously I still think our modern definition can
apply here because it is going to take some patience to get through the bad
times and the tribulation but most of the time they're connected and in verse
number four it says and patience experience and experience hope so this
is obviously why pre-trib is so stupid because the Bible talks kind of
positively about tribulations and patience and getting better through it
so I don't really understand why a saved person would want to be raptured out of
the tribulation because you know tribulation if we go through it could
make us way better we could do greater works we can be a way better Christian
and you know get way closer to God by having to go through that so if you guys
would flip over to Revelation chapter 6 we see here that tribulation and patience
are tied together so in Revelation chapter 6 it's going to talk about more
in depth this tribulation so in Revelation 6 verse number 7 it says and
when he had opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth beast
saying come and see and I looked and behold a pale horse and his name that sat
on him was death and hell followed with him and power was given unto him over
the fourth part of the earth to kill with the sword and with hunger and with
death and with the beast of the earth and when he had opened the fifth seal I
saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and
for the testimony which they held so obviously here we see hey people are
dying with the sword they're dying from hunger and you know by beast and then in
verse number nine it says that people were slain for the word of God so
obviously somebody's here still preaching somebody's trying to get
people saved they're fighting for the word of God they're trying to do God's
work so obviously saved people are still here and they're going through lots of
tribulation at this point which obviously we've never gone through but
obviously you know that could change at some point in the verse number 10 it
says and they cried with a loud voice saying how long O Lord holy and true
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth so
that's why I also think this definition of impatient you know can still apply
because even these people in heaven are saying hey how long before you avenge
and judge the people on the earth so even people in heaven aren't patient
right so obviously we always want God to judge right away but God for some reason
doesn't want to do it right he doesn't want to judge yet he's letting people
be killed and it's his people and in reality it's his children right so it
takes a lot for a parent to let their children go through this death and
suffering but God is letting it happen in a verse number 11 we're gonna see
why it says and white robes were given unto every one of them and it was said
to them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow
servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be
fulfilled so God has to say hey you know have patience wait you know your
brethren your fellow servants people that are doing the work of God that some
of them are going to be killed as well just like you so why would God allow
this why would God let this happen that you can flip over to Matthew 24 why
wouldn't God just punish these people right away you know a lot of people ask
why does God allow bad things to happen why doesn't God just judge bad people or
kill them or do whatever why does God allow this and at this point in
Revelation I mean things are so bad that if God was gonna do that it'd be a great
point to do it but he's still even with his people asking them hey how long
before you avenge our blood he's saying hey just wait have patience so in Matthew
24 verse number 6 it says and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that
ye be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet
for nation shall shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and
there shall be famine and pestilence and earthquakes in diverse places all these
things are the beginning of sorrows and then the same thing that we already read
in verse number 9 it says then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and
shall kill you and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake so here
we see hey the same thing people are gonna be killed people are gonna be
hated for God's name for doing the work of God obviously everybody's not
raptured at this point right so in verse number 10 it says and then shall many be
offended and shall betray one another and shall hate one another and many
false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many and because iniquity shall
abound the love of many shall wax cold but he that shall endure unto the end
the same shall be saved and in verse number 14 is the key why God allows this
to happen in Revelation and in Matthew we see why it says in verse 14 and this
gospel the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations and then shall the end come so why does God want us to have patience
why does God have patience to deal with these people and let people do this
crazy wickedness is because God wants the gospel be preached into the whole
world and God wants more and more people to get saved because if God were to just
kill everybody that's doing this bad stuff well a lot of people might not get
saved right if he just pre-tribbed us all out of here and then just killed
everybody well then a lot of people are gonna go to hell and God wants people to
get saved so he wants the gospel to go to the whole world and obviously in the
Bible it's just over and over a theme of like once people get persecuted they do
great works for God right because you know it's easy when things are going good
like in America you can go to work you can make money you can have the boat the
house you can have whatever you want as much as you want to work but when things
are going bad and then they don't let you work or they're trying to kill you
at work well then all you can do is just focus on God right when things get that
bad you're not worried about things on this earth because you really don't have
the option so if you guys would flip over to Luke chapter 8 I'm gonna read
two verses from second Peter so in second Peter 3 9 it says the Lord is not
slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but is long suffering to
us were not willing that any should perish but that all should come to
repentance so God is the same way right God's long-suffering he's patient and he
wants everybody to go to heaven you know it says he's not willing that any
should perish so at some point he wanted every single person who ever lived to go
to heaven to get saved and in second Peter 3 15 it says an account that the
long-suffering of our Lord is salvation even as our beloved brother Paul also
according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you so obviously again
God's long-suffering and he wants people to get saved so obviously lots of people
in the Bible have done major sins once they were already saved and God spared
them but even people who today and all throughout history have done major sins
have done really bad things things worthy of death and they didn't die and
they got saved later on in life right there's tons of people that maybe
murdered somebody early in the life and they get saved in the jail ministry or
different people steal rob banks do all types of stuff and they get saved later
on so God just killed everybody as soon as they did a bad sin lots of people
would go to hell and God allows certain people to live longer than you know
maybe some of us would want right there's lots of people that maybe we
would want to just be put to death right away and you know God to take them out
but they get saved later on in life right or some people even
when they do bad sins so he's a good example King David right he did
two sins that were mentioned this morning of adultery and murder and God
allowed him to live and I'm sure he did great things for God
after and you know probably lots of people got saved
through David's life after he did those things so
you know God is long-suffering and he's willing that everybody
goes to heaven so in Luke 815 it says in verse number 15 but that on the
good ground are they which in an honest and good
heart having heard the word keep it and bring forth fruit with
patience so obviously you know you're going to
bring forth fruit but you have to do it with patience right you have to suffer
certain things you have to suffer you know even in America right when you go
out in the hot in the cold in the rain you know you might get a
flat tire there's lots of things that can happen even even now but even more
so in this context of the tribulation times in the Bible where they're having
to walk they're having to you know suffer going to jail they're trying to
be persecuted everywhere well to bring forth fruit they have to
do with lots of patience right and the same thing nowadays on a
different level but you know the Bible always compares uh soul winning and
getting people saved with fishing right you're going to be fishers of men
so obviously fishing you're not being attacked
but you know you can go long times without catching any fish so you have
to have the same definition of patience that we
have but you also suffer right i mean it could be
really hot outside it could be really cold outside you could have
the wind pick up out of nowhere and you know there's been certain times right
even though if i was going to survive right you could have
really bad uh weather and you could even die
out on a big lake same thing with soul hunting right you can go
days without seeing people saved or hours without seeing people saved
and you could suffer with the weather you could suffer with people being mad
you know people screaming at you um somebody called i can't remember i
don't know who it was for sure but inbred or whatever right you get the
insults a couple weeks ago somebody said so you
suffer with there but at the same time you could go a long time
without seeing anything and then just see tons of people save
you could go fishing for eight hours and not catch a single fish and then all
of a sudden you just catch a ton you could go soul hunting and not see
anybody and then see a ton saved later on but it's not going to be easy
either or at some point you're going to suffer something
so if you guys have flipped over to james five again
if you kept your place there so at the beginning of james five you kind of see
you know patience being tied to the end times the
tribulation things like that so in james five
in verse number 10 we're going to read james 5 10 it says
take my brethren the prophets who have spoken in the name of the lord for an
example of suffering affliction and of patience behold we count
them happy which endure ye have heard of the patience of jobe and
have seen the end of the lord that the lord is very pitiful
and of tender mercy so i want to go through a different few different
examples of you know some people in the old
testament some prophets that you know are examples of patience but
again here it says hey it's kind of tying the two together right
suffering affliction and patience tied together and then obviously i
don't have uh jobe in here this is uh but he's a great example you
know the bible says clearly the patience of joe right because joe lost
everything and he still didn't curse god he still
loved god and you know he was going to do whatever he needed to do to be right
with god even though he lost everything he had and then at the end of his life
you know things uh worked out for the good
and you know he had more than ever right and he got to be in the bible and be a
great example for generations of you know being somebody that
suffered and have lots of patience so if you guys flip over to genesis
chapter 29 so obviously we got some single guys in here right no one knew
right so the first example is going to be
patience for a wife patience for a wife so obviously no one said it was going to
be easy to find a wife and i think the greatest
example of that is jacob so if you're in genesis 29
we're going to see that jacob had to suffer a lot to have a wife
and in genesis 29 verse 15 it says in laban said unto jacob because
thou art my brother shouldest thou therefore
serve me for not tell me what shall thy wages be
so you know kind of the start is kind of nice right i think it's gonna be a good
story he calls him his brother and what's your
wage is gonna be but this guy's very very deceitful so
just because somebody's family doesn't necessarily mean
that you know they're a good person to work for work with
or you know trust so in verse 16 it says in laban had two daughters the name of
the elder was leah and the name of the younger rachel
leah was tender-eyed but rachel was beautiful and well favored
and jacob loved rachel and said i will serve the
seven years for rachel thy younger daughter
so that's crazy right i mean you're gonna work for somebody and do all this
heavy uh this heavy labor and i'm sure like
working with animals out in the woods is crazy hard i'm sure it's probably
harder than anything we've ever done and he's got to do it for
seven years to marry rachel so if you go down to uh
verse 20 sorry i forgot to tell you to skip down a verse
uh okay no skip down to verse 20 so in verse 20 it says and jacob served
seven years for rachel and they seemed unto him but a few days
for the love he had for so it's kind of starting off like a really good movie
right i mean he served seven years just worked
really hard seven years of tons of work but
now he finally gets to marry the the woman of his dreams right and it seemed
like a few days so i mean obviously for him it was easy to
do this but seven years a very long time right
so in verse 24 we're going to skip down there in verse 24 it
says and leaven gave unto his and leaven gave unto his daughter
leah sorry i think i wrote down the wrong verse or go down to verse 25
it says and it came to pass that in the morning behold
it was leah and he said to leaven what is this that thou hast done unto me
did not i serve with thee for rachel wherefore hast thou beguiled me
so leaven played a trick i don't know how this is possible but somehow
he played a trick on jacob and instead of giving him rachel to marry
he switched it and gave uh the sister leah
and now jacob is married to the wrong person so now he worked
for seven years of his life did all this hard labor
just did tons of work for this guy and it's his family
and he still pulled the fast one and gave him the wrong woman
so leaven's got an idea though to make it all right
so verse number 26 as in leaven said it must not be
so done in our country to give the younger before the firstborn
it's like you probably should have mentioned that seven years ago
but you know small details right so in verse 27 it says
fulfill her week and we will give thee also for the service which thou hast
or sorry i'm reading this all wrong fulfill her week and we will give thee
this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other
years so he's got to work another seven years
to marry rachel so total he's worked he's got to work 14 years to marry the
person that he wanted and now he's got two wives now he's got to feed
two people take care of two different uh you know
families or whatever i don't know how you consider that two families or one
family but he's got to work extra hard now to provide for
way more kids two different women and just a huge messy situation that
kind of affects him for the rest of his life
because you know he got played a trick on so
if you would skip to genesis 31 football for a few pages of genesis 31
but it doesn't really stop here he's still got to work with this guy because
now he's stuck with his father-in-law and that's another thing that we'll get
to with the next example as well but a common theme is the father-in-law you
kind of want to look at who your father-in-law is because they could be
really bad so when you're going to marry somebody look at the father-in-law
so here we're going to continue and see how the father-in-law
treats jacob and his family it says in genesis 31 38
it says this 20 years have i been with thee
thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young and the rams of thy flock
have i not eaten that which was torn of beasts
i brought not unto thee i bear the loss of it
of my hand did thou require it whether stolen by day or stolen by night
so how many people at your job hey if there's an a loss of the job right you
mess something up you break something do they take it out
of your paycheck do they make you cover it and then it
says stolen by day or by night so like you went home for the day and somebody
broke something you got to pay for it they take it out of your check
i mean jacob is just 24/7 responsible for things and if something happens
he's taking it out of his paycheck so obviously there's a very strict boss
and you know crazy to think that this is family this is the father-in-law right
usually it should be a little more lenient
since your family but here it's super strict and in verse 40 it says
thus I was in the day the drought consumed me and the frost by night
and my sleep departed from mine eyes so Jacob's just having a really hard time
he's I mean he's got frost he can't sleep you know he's just
working super hard you know going through drought
probably lots of natural disasters and you know who knows flooding or whatever
is going on in the wilderness and when you got animals
outside lots of bad things can happen verse 41 it says thus have I been 20
years in thy house I served thee 14 years for thy two
daughters and six years for thy cattle and thou
has changed my wages 10 times so how would you like to go to work
and they're just always changing your wages that's like
you know 10 times in 20 years so you know every other year they're changing
your wage like hey you're making too much money let's lower your pay
you know lots of people would just quit right after the first time let alone let
it happen 10 times and they're taking money out of
your check every time you mess something up or
something goes wrong even if you're not awake
so in verse 42 it says except the god of my father the god of Abraham and the
fear of Isaac had been with me surely thou had
sent me away now empty god hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my
hands and rebuked thee yester night so you know
leaven doesn't want to listen to god right i mean god told him
don't even go talk to jacob just let him go and he still did it anyway
but you know in jacob's mind and who knows if it's true but he said
he thinks that leaven would have sent him away empty
and not gave him anything right took the wives back took the cattle back
and just said you go and i keep it all even though jacob worked for it and did
everything right how would you like you put in your two weeks at your job
and they're like well you worked here 20 years give me your car give me your
house it's all mine you know i paid you so i deserve
everything that you have and we're going to see this attitude in
the next verse that leaven has he says in verse 43 it says and leaven
answered and said unto jacob these daughters are my daughters it's
like no you gave them to me i worked for them right
they're my daughters and these children are my children
no they're not your children but and these cattle are my cattle
and all that thou seest is mine and what can i do this day unto these
my daughters or unto their children which they have
borne so leaven is such a crazy dude that he thinks that everything that
jacob has is still his even though jacob worked for everything
i mean he's gotta be the craziest boss craziest
father-in-law so you know obviously if you're gonna marry a girl i guess it's
probably a good idea to see how the father-in-law is because they could be
nuts i guess so if you guys would flip over to first
annual 16 and obviously jacob is just like in all
categories is like super patient right i mean even our
definition of patient jacob is like a plus and then in
suffering and you know having uh affliction
and bad things in your life and and going through it i mean he's an a plus
i mean everything jacob is just a perfect example
he's working super hard doing everything laban wants he's not stealing he's not
having a bad attitude and he's just suffering everything
patiently and then the next one is king david
and his arguably his father-in-law is worse than
jacob's i know that's probably hard to imagine but
uh king david is going to have a bad father-in-law as well and he
suffers everything perfectly and is a great example like jacob
in first samuel 16 verse number 13 it says then samuel took the horn of oil
and anointed him in the midst of his brethren
and the spirit of the lord came upon david from that day forward
so samuel rose up and went to rama so obviously david's get anointed anointed
he's gonna be the next king of israel and you know he's anointed by samuel
which is obviously a great honor sam is a great man
but he's not going to be king for a long time so he still has to
uh live in this kingdom as you know the future king but not in charge of the
army and the military so obviously you see just throughout
history of kings that this is a grave danger for somebody because
even kings right there the brothers are trying to kill each other
or you know different uh kings they try to kill the
the younger people that try to keep power and
you know family structure and then this is like and they're not even anointed
yet it's just like uh trying to prepare who the next person
is going to be they're killing so and so to keep
family structure between wives or between
you know whatever criteria but this person's like ordained or it's like hey
this is the new king so it's like you know a crazy target on
your back because obviously Saul wants his son to be king not
some stranger so if you flip over to chapter number 18
we're going to see kind of how this plays out in King Saul's life
where he just goes downhill because he just envies David he knows David's a
better man than him that David's going to be
a better king that David's got God with him
and in verse or in chapter 18 verse 10 it says and it came to pass on the
morrow that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul and he prophesied
in the midst of the house and David played with his hand as at other times
and there was a javelin in Saul's hand and Saul cast the javelin
for he said I will smite David even to the wall with it
and David avoided out of his presence twice
so here we see that you know David was anointed by
Samuel to be king and you know he's got this
great tribulation going on in his life where the
the guy who's still king physically is trying to kill him and you know he's
just doing his own thing trying to uh do what the leader wants and play uh
play music for him and he's trying to smite him against the wall and kill him
right and it says that he avoided out of his presence
not once but twice so you would think that it's probably a good idea not to
marry this person's daughter right to stay probably away from this person but
if you look at verse 23 um Saul has an idea to get date try to kill David by
having to marry his daughter so again you got to be careful who the father-in-law is because
somehow they can try to you know trick you into marrying their daughter to uh do bad things in
your life and in uh Samuel 18 verse 23 it says in Saul's servants spake these words in the ears of
David and David said, "seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law seeing that I am
a poor man and lightly esteemed." So it's crazy that David says he's lightly esteemed when he's
already been anointed by Samuel to be you know king so obviously you know he's greatly esteemed
but in his mind you know he he has a low uh level of ego and it says, "and the servants of Saul
told him saying on this manner spake David and Saul said thus shall you do to David the king
desireth not any dowry but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines to be avenged of the king's enemies."
And then here's the key, "but Saul thought to make David fall by the hands of the Philistines."
So Saul thinks that David's gonna die and this is his theory to like protect his family and
give them the kingdom is like, "hey, let's David go do this and kill the Philistines and he's gonna
die. He's not gonna marry my daughter." But obviously David is a great warrior and he does it and
obviously he's gonna keep causing bad things throughout his life because Saul is gonna try
to keep killing him over and over again and then he has to run and Saul takes his daughter back
and marries her to another guy and you know just a terrible individual in regards to what he did to
King David. So if you'd flip over to 1 Samuel 24, obviously Saul is terrible. He's treating his son
a lot of bad. Even from the beginning he's trying to trick him. He's trying to get him to marry his
daughter for him to die and you know he just has a really bad spirit, a bad attitude. But King David
is like the perfect example of having patience, even when suffering the most you know extreme
forms of tribulation or affliction in your life. And in 1st Samuel 24-3, David has the opportunity
to end Saul's reign and to take over himself because I mean obviously he's been anointed
already by Samuel so you know he could be king. But in verse number three it says, "And he came
to the sheep-cots, by the way, where was a cave. And Saul went in to cover his feet. And David and
his men remained in the sides of the cave. And the men of David said unto him, Behold, the day of
which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemies into thine hand, that thou
mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose and cut off the skirt of Saul's
robe privily. So, you know, David could have killed Saul, but instead he just cuts off a piece, or
cuts off, sorry, the skirt of Saul's robe. And he just cuts off a piece of Saul's skirt there,
and, you know, a piece of clothing, and doesn't kill him. And it says in verse number five,
just doing this, hurt David. It says, "And it came to pass afterward that David's heart smote him,
because he had cut off Saul's skirt." So, because he cut a piece of Saul's clothing off,
David's heart smote him, and he felt bad, and he obviously wished he wouldn't have done it.
And in verse number six says, "And he said unto his men, 'The Lord forbid that I should do this
thing. Unto my master the Lord's anointed to stretch forth my hand against him, seeing he is the
anointed of the Lord.'" So obviously 99% of men in the world, right, if you had a father-in-law like
this trying to throw javelins at you, took, you know, the wife back and gave it to another guy,
like 99% of people would have probably smote Saul there and had no feeling about doing it, right? But
it just shows us that David is just a great man. He's got tons of patience. It doesn't matter what
afflictions Saul wants to throw at him. It doesn't matter what Saul wants to do to him.
David calls him his master and doesn't want to harm him in any way. And if you'd flip over to
1 Samuel 31 verse number 3, 1 Samuel 31, David wants to let God, you know, judge Saul. He wants
to let God take Saul out in God's time. He doesn't want to be the one to stretch forth his hand
against the Lord's anointed. And even after Saul dies, most people, if they wouldn't have slew Saul,
they would have been like, "Man, you know, my father-in-law is finally out of the picture.
That dude is crazy." But instead of that, David has an attitude of feeling bad for Saul and actually
avenging, you know, this guy tells a lie, but he avenges what he thinks in his mind as the guy who
took out Saul. So in 1 Samuel 31 verse number three, it says, "And the battle went sore against Saul,
and the archers hit him, and he was sore wounded of the archers. Then said Saul unto his armor bearer,
'Draw thy sword and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through
and abuse me.' But his armor bearer would not, for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword
and fell upon it." So we hear, hey, Saul committed suicide, right? And obviously Saul still went to
heaven, so you know a lot of people think suicide sends somebody to hell, but obviously, you know,
it's not true because once you're saved you're always saved, and Saul fell upon a sword here.
But obviously Saul killed himself, so the guy who says he killed Saul, it wasn't true. Saul died by
suicide. And in verse number five it says, "And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead,
he fell likewise upon his sword and died with him." So Saul died and his three sons and his
armor-bearer and his men that same day together. So, you know, David didn't have to take Saul out.
David didn't have to avenge himself. He didn't have to do any self-defense when Saul threw the
javelin and, you know, pull out his bow and arrow and shoot Saul and be like, "Well, he's self-defense
right, Second Amendment." He just allowed Saul to do whatever he wanted and he just escaped and would
come back and escape, come back and allowed God to take him out and trusted God to take care of
Saul. And he just had the patience to suffer that affliction and tribulation in his life and just do
the best he could in that situation. So you guys can flip over to 2nd Samuel chapter 1.
I'm going to read one verse from Proverbs 20 verse 22. It says, "Say not thou I will recompense evil,
but wait on the Lord and he shall save thee." So that's the same thing we've seen in David's
life, right? I mean David didn't have to recompense evil. He waited on the Lord and God saved him out
of that. So in 2 Samuel 1 verse number 11 we're going to see David's attitude when he found out
Saul died and see if he was glad and happy that Saul was taken out who's his enemy, who's literally
causing like all the problems in David's life. It says in 2 Samuel 1 verse 11 it says, "Then David
took hold on his clothes and rent them and likewise all the men that were with him and they mourned
and wept and fasted until even for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the Lord
and for the house of Israel because they were fallen by the sword." So you know he wasn't hoping
and praying and wanting God to just kill him and judge him and you know he had the exact opposite.
He was sad, he was mourning, he didn't want bad things to happen to Saul and especially you know
when you sin other people are going to be affected right and David maybe you know even if he did not
like Saul he loved Jonathan and guess what Jonathan died right so you know David loved
Jonathan so much where he probably wished like even if he did hate Saul he'd be like as long as
Jonathan didn't die I don't care what happens you know like it's a bad thing when when people sin
because it affects everybody and David lost you know probably his best friend just because Saul
went on this tirade and you know obviously wasn't right with God and it caused a lot of problems in
a lot of people's lives if you flip over to Romans chapter 12 or yeah Romans chapter 12
so obviously hopefully none of us go through anything like Jacob went through or anything
that King David went through but it shows that hey when we have problems in our life
we can look to these people and think man like I don't have it nearly as bad as David right
I mean if my if somebody's father-in-law doesn't get him a big enough gift for Christmas you can
look past it because you you know he's not throwing a javelin at you right so in verse number 17 of
Romans 12 it says recompense to no man evil for evil provide things honest in the sight of all men
if it be possible as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men dearly beloved avenge not
yourselves but rather give place unto wrath for it is written vengeance is mine i will repay
sayeth the lord therefore thy enemy hunger feed him if he thirsts give him drink for in so doing
thou shall heap coals of fire on his head be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good so
obviously hey it takes lots of patience to do this right because we want people to just be avenged
right away we want people to be judged and then we can be like yeah look God got this person right
and obviously you know like David took years and years for Saul to be taken out and for David to be
avenged but at the same time like it was a pretty bad way that Saul got taken out and you know it
says that if you do good to your enemies that you're going to heap coals of fire on his head
and it's actually a worse punishment that God's going to do is if you're good to your enemies
because God's going to punish them worse and we see that Saul got taken out by suicide right he
Epstein himself so you know that might not be true I don't know right the FBI said he did so
I'm going with the official narrative so you know obviously it's a terrible way to go out though
right you don't want to go out by suicide you want to go out by you know some heroic thing
or you want to go out naturally or some good way right I mean lots of people in the Bible
they die but it's a heroic death right they die for Jesus like John the Baptist right you want to
be like that you don't want to be like oh that guy committed suicide um you know and obviously it
still is a good example even if you do something bad it could be a great example because a lot of
people use that as like proof you can't lose your salvation so even somebody like Saul who ended on
a bad note committed suicide he could still be an example somebody who was saved and didn't lose
their salvation so I'm gonna read you guys can flip over to first kings chapter 11 first kings 11
so I'm going to read a verse from psalm 119 verse 71 it says it is good for me that I have been
afflicted that I might learn thy statutes so obviously David is a great man they call Jesus
right the son of David and he was afflicted you know super hard but obviously if that wouldn't
happen in his life he might have not been nearly as great so you know the bible says here afflicted
and learning god's statutes go hand in hand and you know great people in the bible were afflicted
a ton and they turned out to be the best people to ever live people that look up to them right
for generations and hundreds and of years and probably for the rest of eternity you'll look at
great examples in the bible like king david of somebody who did great things for god and it all
comes from the affliction so you know you don't want to be somebody who's hoping that the pre-trib
is true you know you want to suffer that tribulation right and get that affliction so
then you can learn god's word and do great works and do great exploits so i kind of got some
you know little facts here that kind of you can look at yourself i won't point at anybody
to see if you have this any close to patience of people we looked at right so here's a few different
studies they did on people being patient and losing their temper over little tiny things that
happen in their life so it says research indicates that for many daily tasks people begin to lose
their temper or abandon the activity in less than 30 seconds so if something goes wrong and whatever
you're trying to do it takes 30 seconds for somebody to lose start to lose their temper and
then just give up on whatever they're doing and then these are a few different examples they have
so web loading frustration begins after just 16 seconds so if you're trying to load something
on your phone and it takes more than 16 seconds as people just start to get frustration and after
30 seconds you're going to just give up on it right so you know the big tribulation that you
guys have or me included is like you're trying to watch a sermon and it's taken you know over 16
seconds to load and you're going to give up on watching that sermon if it takes more than 30 seconds
right so another one is traffic lights drivers become frustrated after 25 seconds of waiting
for a light to change so you're driving to church right and if that light takes more than 30 seconds
you better not turn around you better keep coming so another one is streaming it only takes 22
seconds for people to start cursing their device if a show doesn't stream immediately so you know
man that's great you know so another one is call centers more than half of callers will hang up
after being on hold for one minute or less so you know lots of things can be a correlation there
right somebody didn't um you know reply to your text message or whatever and you get mad about
that too or um you know i got ones that i made up here but like you know someone yelled at me out
soul winning and you know you're going to give up on soul winning and uh you know your family
says you're in a cult so you're like oh i can't go to church anymore because you know my family's
mad so there's just lots of different things in our life that are just so menial in comparison
to what we read and we get so frustrated about it whereas like david's like trying to be killed
and jacob's having to work 20 years and the guy still says it's all his and trying to take it all
the way and they're not even frustrated they're just suffering it and you know they act like
everything's fine but then we have one little inconvenience and the sermon's not loading fast
enough and you're just losing your mind at the phone right and i've never done that by the way
so the big one for me is like when people drive and they you know don't let me in when i'm trying
to merge and i'm just like get out of the way that's my big uh tribulation when i come here
so and you guys drive crazy out here that's the big thing but it's like the highway is 55
and everybody's driving 75 80 or something it's like i'm going 70 trying to merge everybody's
passing me like what are you guys doing this is reckless driving in every other state so
in titus uh you guys i think you're already in first kings 11 so i'm going to read titus uh 2 2
it says that the aged men be sober grave temperate sound in faith and charity in patience so obviously
don't blow your top over the smallest little tiny tribulation affliction bad thing that happens in
your life have some patience and obviously it's easier said than done right so i'm preaching to
myself too so in first kings 11 verse 3 it says and he had 700 this is solomon and he had 700 wives
princes princesses sorry that's the new king james princesses and 300 concubines and his wives
turned away his heart so solomon had way too many wives he married too many princesses and they took
away his heart from the lord and in verse number four it says for it came to pass when solomon was
old that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with
the lord his god as it was the heart of david his father so here we see that solomon and it
says specifically when he was old and that's a big thing is people seem to lose all their patience
when they're old right you hear the story about people yelling get off the grass and it's like the
old man it seems like when people get old they stop wanting to fight they just want it easy they
want to go on cruise control and when solomon got old he let his wives turn him away from god
in verse number five it says for solomon went after asteroth the goddess of the zydonians
and after milcom the abomination of the ammonites and solomon did evil in the side of the lord and
when not fully after the lord as did david his father so we see that solomon hey he got old
and he didn't have the patience he didn't endure you know that affliction of all those thousand
wives bickering them every day to build these idols and to serve other gods and he cave into
that and you know god specifically told not to in verse 10 it says and had commanded him concerning
this thing that he should not go after other gods but he kept not that which the lord commanded
so you know he chose the easy route to do what his wife said and obviously that's an epidemic
in uh you know america nowadays right everybody just does whatever their wives say and you go
to the door and you're talking to some guy he's like a grown man you know 40 years old or something
and the wife's like he's not interested he's like bro come on you know but you know that's the big
problem is hey once people get old they seem to not want to fight anymore they just want to give up
and don't be like that you know as we obviously most people in our type of churches and the new
ib you know type style is just a lot of young people a lot of people that are younger a lot
of first generations christians you go to the old ib it seems to be kind of more and obviously
there's exceptions but you know there's more so old people people that are older and you know
they're not doing the same style of preaching they're not doing the same style of soul winning
and obviously there is some churches that have young people on them and you know they're more
likely to do great works you know if you if you go to church and every single person's in their
80s the chances of them preaching like crazy sermons and doing tons of soul winning is pretty
low it seems like as you get older a lot of people don't do anything and it's just kind of like the
baby baby boomer you know you see them and it's like all they can do is like either protest or
watch fox news like the two groups you have like the protesters are like protesting the churches
or they're watching fox news or they're doing the no kings uh rallies but you know you should fight
for good things right and another example somebody who didn't want to fight is if you flip over to
first samuel chapter one is eli eli was the same way as he got old he didn't want to fight anymore
and he just allowed his kids to do some evil things so in first samuel chapter one verse nine
we're going to see that eli had a position that eli was an important man it says in first samuel
one nine it says so hannah rose up after they had eaten in shiloh and after they had drunk now eli
the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the lord so here we see that eli is the priest
right so eli's got an important position he's got authority he's not just a nobody so if you flip
over to chapter number two first samuel two verse 12 so eli has authority but is he going to use
that to serve god and do what god wants well in verse number 12 it says now the sons of eli were
sons of belial they knew not the lord so eli is the priest but his kids did not turn out right
they're sons of belial right so they should not be anywhere near the house of god eli should throw
them out he shouldn't have anything to do with his kids probably should just give them the death
penalty right if they're really sons of belial they're probably just be turned over to the
authorities and you know put to death right but instead eli is not going to do this because he's
old it says in verse number 22 it says now eli was very old and heard all that his sons did unto
all israel and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation and he said unto them why do ye such things for i hear of your evil dealings by all
this people so it's like if you hear about why don't you take care of it right if you're the
priest you're the guy in charge you know throw them out at least if not you know put them to
death and in verse number 24 it says name my sons for it is no good report that i hear ye make the
lord's people to transgress if one man sin against another the judge shall judge him but if a man sin
against the lord who shall entreat for him now withstanding they hearken not unto the voice of
their father because the lord would slay them so it's sad that hey eli is the priest his sons are
sons of belial they're doing wicked stuff in the house of god and you know he's not going to take
care of it that god has to do it so it says god would slay them but it should say eli you know
slew them right there really but if we skip down to verse 29 it says wherefore kick ye at my
sacrifice and at my offering which i have commanded in my habitation and honorest thy sons above me
to make yourself fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of israel my people so eli isn't only
letting his sons doing it he's also profiting from it and you know he's old so he's just kind
of getting the benefits right he's just kind of kicking back and he's making himself fat with the
chiefest of the offerings that his sons you know are partaken in and it says here that he honor it
that he honors his sons above god so he's allowing his sons to do it and god saying hey you love your
sons more than me you're honoring them and you're getting fat from this so obviously that is just
super wicked that eli let this happen but as people get older they have a big tendency
to not want to fight anymore and just allow things to happen right i mean you start talking to some
old people especially about you know some conspiracies about whoever runs you know the
trump administration or whatever and it's like i don't want to hear it i just want to go on my
yacht or go on my boat or you know just enjoy my vacation i want you know i don't want to know
about that kind of stuff but you know obviously when you're the old people you're supposed to be
the ones that are kind of giving information to the other younger people and helping them and you
should want the best for your kids and for the grandkids and have a country that's good for them
instead the older people seem to not fight and then just allow the country to be 40 trillion
dollars in debt but it's like who cares about that because i'm going to die before things get
too bad and it's going to be somebody else's problem not mine and it's a sad thing so hopefully
as we get older we don't fall under the same trap of allowing you know whatever to happen just
because we're like well we only got a few years left i want to enjoy my life before i die you
should as you get older you should almost be the opposite that you're willing to die to help the
next generation because you're like who cares i'm already at the end of my life i want to make sure
the next generation has it better but it seems like the exact opposite whereas people get older
they don't really care anymore so if you'd flip over to second timothy 3 i'm going to read
james 1 12 it says blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he has tried
he shall receive the crown of life which the lord hath promised to them that love him so obviously
a big temptation we see as people get older is to not want to fight and to allow bad things to happen
but you know don't fall into that that trap and second corinthians 4 17 it says for our light
affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory
so obviously eli and solomon both had a light affliction solomon could have told his wives
we're not doing that we're doing what god said no idols and the story of solomon would have been way
better and people for thousands of years would have read that story and been like solomon's a
lot better guy whereas the opposite is true because it's light affliction he gave up people
kind of laugh at solomon giving up his power to women right and same thing with eli if eli would
have put his kids to death or at least threw him out of the uh the temple you know threw him out
of israel whatever his story would have been a lot better and he wouldn't be used as a negative
example in the bible and how shameful that the priest has a very bad you know example and a bad
story the priest should be the example so that was a light affliction too because hey your kids
if their son's abelio you ain't going to be with them for eternity anyways you know what's a few
extra years that you're not with them because you threw them out of the country or put them to death
right so you guys are in second timothy 3 look at verse number 10 this will be the last place we
go it says but thou hast fully known my doctrine manner of life purpose faith long-suffering
charity patience persecutions afflictions which came unto me at Antioch at Iconium at Lystra what
persecutions I endured but out of them all the Lord delivered me so no matter what persecutions
no matter what bad things you know you can have the patience to know that God is he can deliver
you obviously you know you something you could still die but if God chooses he can deliver you
just like the apostle Paul says yay and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution but evil men and seducer seducer shall whack worse and worse deceiving and being
deceived so everybody that lives godly is going to suffer persecution is just how your story is
going to end is it going to be like Solomon is it going to be like Eli or is it going to be like
the apostle Paul somebody who ended on a good note you know most people in the Bible seems like
as they get older they end on a bad note right we're all young or you know I guess it goes to
differ I guess on what your definition is but you know as you get older though you know there's a
high chance of people falling away and the longer you go to church the more you see people go to
church for five years then they fall away or 10 years then they fall away you don't want to be
like that and you want to know that hey as I get older there's a higher probability of me getting
sidetracked or not wanting to fight and you should purposely look at verses and things to see what is
going to keep you in the fight and just keep going right you want to be somebody who dies and did
everything they could for God and not have fallen away or not fallen into sin and even great people
in our movement that we loved or whatever as they got older did something bad and lost their
position or lost you know got kicked out of church or whatever so we don't want to do the same thing
right if it happened to great men it can happen to us right so we'll close with a word of prayer
thank you Lord for a great day in church thank you for letting us see some people get saved and
thank you for all that you do and please keep us safe as we drive home we love you and thank you
and in Jesus name we pray amen amen all right for the last song get your binders if you don't
have a binder please raise your hand and usher will hand you a binder we're gonna be singing
psalm 139 the good version or i don't know what to call it the old ifb version the nice version
the first how good how precious also are thy thoughts unto thee oh god how great the sum
of them if i should count them they are more than when i away i am still with thee search me
god bry me saw there be kid way everlasting how precious also are thy thoughts unto me
oh god how great the sun should count and when i away to when steven can you please close out
with a word of prayer amen you are dismissed