WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.240 chapter six as is our custom we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse one so please read 00:06.240 --> 00:11.120 along with me beginning in verse one of first samuel chapter six 00:14.320 --> 00:20.480 the bible reads and the ark of the lord was in the country of the philistines seven months and 00:20.480 --> 00:25.360 the philistines called for the priest and the diviner saying what shall we do to the ark of the 00:25.360 --> 00:31.920 lord tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place and they said if you send away the ark of 00:31.920 --> 00:38.320 the god of israel send it not empty but in any wise return him a trespass offering then you shall 00:38.320 --> 00:44.560 be healed and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you then said they what 00:44.560 --> 00:50.880 shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him they answered five golden emirats 00:50.880 --> 00:57.440 and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the philistines for one plague was on 00:57.440 --> 01:04.640 you all and on your lords wherefore ye shall make images of your emirats and images of your mice 01:04.640 --> 01:10.640 that mar the land and ye shall give glory unto the god of israel for adventure he will lighten his 01:10.640 --> 01:17.120 hand from off you and from off your gods and from off your land wherefore then do ye harden your 01:17.120 --> 01:22.400 hearts as the egyptians and pharaoh hardened their hearts when he had wrought wonderfully among 01:22.400 --> 01:29.520 them did they not let the people go and they departed now therefore make a new cart and take 01:29.520 --> 01:35.520 two milk kind on which there hath come no yoke and tie the kind to the cart and bring their calves 01:35.520 --> 01:41.120 home from them and take the ark of the lord and lay it upon the cart and put the jewels of gold 01:41.120 --> 01:47.040 which ye shall which ye return him for a trespass offering in a coffer by the side thereof and send 01:47.040 --> 01:54.880 it away that it may go and see if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to beth shemesh then he 01:54.880 --> 02:00.720 hath done us this great evil but if not then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us 02:00.720 --> 02:07.600 it was a chance that happened to us and the men did so and took two milk kind and tied them to the 02:07.600 --> 02:13.200 cart and shut up their calves at home and they laid the ark of the lord upon the cart and the 02:13.200 --> 02:19.920 coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emirats and the kind took the straight way 02:19.920 --> 02:26.320 to the way of beth shemesh and went along the highway lowing as they went and turned not aside 02:26.320 --> 02:31.920 to the right hand or to the left and the lords of the philistines went after them onto the border of 02:31.920 --> 02:37.280 beth shemesh and they of beth shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley and they lifted 02:37.280 --> 02:45.520 up their eyes and saw the ark and rejoiced to see it and the ark came into the field of joshua 02:45.520 --> 02:51.920 a beth shemite and stood there where there was a great stone and they clave the wood of the cart 02:51.920 --> 02:58.400 and offered the kind a burnt offering unto the lord and the levites took down the ark of the lord 02:58.400 --> 03:05.520 and the coffer that was with it wherein the jewels of gold were and put them on the great stone and 03:05.520 --> 03:11.840 the men of beth shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the lord 03:12.800 --> 03:17.920 and when the five lords of the philistines had seen it they returned to ekron the same day 03:18.640 --> 03:23.360 and these are the golden emirats which the philistines returned for a trespass offering 03:23.360 --> 03:31.920 unto the lord for ashdad one for gaza one for ashkelon one for gath one for ekron one and the 03:31.920 --> 03:37.040 golden mice according to the number of all the cities of the philistines belonging to the five 03:37.040 --> 03:43.040 lords both of fenced cities and of country villages even unto the great stone of abel 03:43.040 --> 03:48.320 whereon they set down the ark of the lord which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of 03:48.320 --> 03:55.600 joshua the beth shemite and he smote the men of beth shemesh because they had looked into the ark 03:55.600 --> 04:03.760 of the lord even he smote of the people 50 000 and three score and 10 men and the people lamented 04:03.760 --> 04:09.600 because the lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter and the men of beth shemesh 04:09.600 --> 04:16.960 said who is able to stand before this holy lord god and to whom shall he go up from us and they 04:16.960 --> 04:22.560 sent messengers to the inhabitants of kirjath jerem saying the philistines have brought again 04:22.560 --> 04:27.440 the ark of the lord come ye down and fetch it up to you brother shawn would you pray for us 04:43.440 --> 04:45.520 all right kids i have a couple questions for you 04:45.680 --> 04:54.560 how many of each mice and how or how many mice and how many emirats did they have to make kids 04:54.560 --> 05:00.400 gabe raise his hand first how many nope who's the next person to raise their hand 05:04.080 --> 05:07.680 juda the only person i'm pointing to no jack 05:07.680 --> 05:08.880 nope jack 05:12.880 --> 05:17.200 you better ask your dad for permission to eat that if he wants to eat it it's his right he is the dad 05:20.080 --> 05:31.120 okay how many how many lords of the philistines were there timothy timothy i mean paul i'm just 05:31.120 --> 05:39.840 good night five you're right oh all right dad still gets 10 regardless all right so 05:41.280 --> 05:45.520 i just happen to have those so i thought i would ask if anybody was paying attention to the reading 05:45.520 --> 05:50.160 so this is zoe's second favorite chapter in the whole bible so 05:54.000 --> 05:59.920 has to be the mice i'm sure that's what it is so uh and just a quick recap from last week the 05:59.920 --> 06:04.880 the philistines have taken the ark and god destroyed their graven image and left it a stump 06:04.880 --> 06:10.880 so stumpy is what i renamed it then god began to plague the philistines and they're now basically 06:10.880 --> 06:17.680 just playing hot potato for sending the ark from town to town and and place to place here and uh 06:18.800 --> 06:24.560 god is continuing to plague the philistines in each place that they send the ark to and so basically 06:24.560 --> 06:28.160 they're doing the opposite of loving their neighbors as themselves they're basically 06:28.160 --> 06:34.320 plaguing their neighbors as they were themselves and they're sharing the plague like gentiles are 06:34.320 --> 06:42.560 known to do so uh instead of figuring out why you know figuring out why they're serving a stump and 06:42.560 --> 06:48.000 and you know instead of turning to the to the god to the lord god who's actually vexing them 06:48.000 --> 06:53.360 i mean i don't think stumpy ever did anything for him but um i mean they could see visibly what god 06:53.360 --> 06:59.280 is already doing so like it just is strange to me that people would not turn to god in that 06:59.280 --> 07:04.960 situation like you'd have to know that that is the hand of god upon you and they know it because 07:04.960 --> 07:10.800 they're concerned about it so instead they just kind of go around and basically put a band-aid on 07:11.360 --> 07:17.520 the greater problem which is their idolatry they're serving of false gods and they're overlooking 07:17.520 --> 07:23.040 their true major problem so they're wicked idolatrous freaks that are bent on destroying 07:23.040 --> 07:29.920 god's people and that's really their main issue but i just think it's interesting out of this whole 07:29.920 --> 07:33.840 book because you got first and second samuel and then you have these two stories where it just 07:33.840 --> 07:42.080 mainly focuses on the philistines and it's kind of like you know it's it's just not a common theme 07:42.080 --> 07:46.800 that happens in the bible where you're just completely focused on god's enemies and what 07:46.800 --> 07:51.840 is happening to them at that time it just seems to be i mean obviously it's part of the story 07:52.560 --> 07:56.560 but i think it's teaching us something that's an overall greater story if you 07:57.120 --> 08:02.400 were following along with this chapter because you know they're plagued by these mice and with 08:02.400 --> 08:07.280 the emorods and yes that would be very uncomfortable and that would not be fun and having all your stuff 08:07.280 --> 08:12.800 eaten and mice getting into your stuff and you know they carry disease and plagues but did it 08:12.800 --> 08:18.960 say that they that god killed 50 000 people at once yeah but it wasn't the philistines that he 08:18.960 --> 08:26.240 killed it was the israelites that he killed so who knew better who knew what they were supposed to 08:26.240 --> 08:32.080 be doing with the ark and who didn't so the philistines like they don't really get vexed as hard 08:32.080 --> 08:37.520 but also ignorance is not is no excuse you know that verse is perfect where it's like they're 08:37.520 --> 08:43.920 without excuse because the the invisible things which are you know are made are clearly seen 08:43.920 --> 08:48.800 so and the fact that god is just because look how it starts out look at verse one it says 08:48.800 --> 08:53.120 and the ark of the lord was in the country of the philistines seven months so this is seven months 08:53.840 --> 08:58.880 i mean that's the greater part of a year where god is just vexing the philistines and they're 08:58.880 --> 09:05.840 just basically sending it from place to place town to town city to city and that's seven months 09:05.840 --> 09:11.120 to think about what you've done you know what i mean that's seven months to really kind of just 09:11.120 --> 09:16.400 look in the mirror and be like hey should we be following stumpy over here or you know the actually 09:16.400 --> 09:21.040 and they these philistines had different gods in these different cities too because if you remember 09:21.040 --> 09:27.280 that biezel bub is the god of of ekron and that is uh you know basically the devil and his minions 09:27.280 --> 09:34.400 so um so seven months this ark is there and it says and the philistines called for the priest 09:34.400 --> 09:40.400 and the diviners i mean this is strike two and three right here because they've already you know 09:40.400 --> 09:44.800 taken the ark when they shouldn't have taken it and they're kind of parading around like a trophy 09:44.800 --> 09:50.080 but it's a trophy that's not helping them this trophy is destroying them and it's more than a 09:50.080 --> 09:56.240 trophy it's something that is is uh is holy unto the lord it's actually represents his throne on 09:56.240 --> 10:03.200 earth i mean the seat on top of it is that lid which is where the cherubims cover over the throne 10:03.200 --> 10:08.400 of god it's it's god's representation of his throne on earth and it's supposed to be in the 10:08.400 --> 10:15.520 tabernacle of the congregation so they took that willy-nilly and are just kind of taking it around 10:15.520 --> 10:19.520 from place to place and i don't think that they're transporting it like the levites are supposed to 10:19.520 --> 10:23.760 transport it as fact they're not supposed to be touching it at all there's certain rules and 10:23.760 --> 10:28.880 regulations about that but they don't know those things so i think that god's kind of sparing them 10:28.880 --> 10:33.920 a little bit because of that but you know if you notice later on he doesn't spare the israelites 10:33.920 --> 10:41.520 for that they're just like and then all of a sudden they get smoked right so anyway so 10:44.240 --> 10:48.880 they're saying like what shall what what shall we do with the ark of the lord tell us wherewith we 10:48.880 --> 10:52.880 shall send it to its place so now they're kind of getting the idea maybe we should just send this 10:52.880 --> 10:59.680 thing back which that's a good idea and this should go without saying but you know what do 10:59.680 --> 11:05.600 they do they call for the priest and the diviners so these priests are not priests of the lord these 11:05.600 --> 11:12.720 priests are pagan priests that worship multiple gods and they're probably reprobates and then 11:12.720 --> 11:19.360 of course you got the the diviners these are like your witches and warlocks or sorcerers or whatever 11:19.360 --> 11:26.800 you want to call them but they're diviners so i mean it's bad it's a bad idea to go and get 11:26.800 --> 11:33.920 your answers about the things of god from satanic priests i mean it's kind of you know like you know 11:33.920 --> 11:37.600 these might be the wrong guys but they didn't really have anybody else to turn to but who what 11:37.600 --> 11:42.480 could they have done they could have sent letters to juda they could have sent letters to israel and 11:42.480 --> 11:48.080 try to figure out like hey where does this belong watch you guys come get this but you know they're 11:48.080 --> 11:54.960 not really thinking so basically they're they call the witches and the wizards and the sorcerers to 11:54.960 --> 12:01.600 come and help them and and and basically the thing about these types of people is that sometimes 12:01.600 --> 12:06.560 they're right about stuff you know the reason why the familiar spirits are called familiar spirits 12:06.560 --> 12:12.000 because they're familiar with us they they've lived here for thousands of years so they've 12:12.000 --> 12:17.920 probably seen our grandparents our great-grandparents and you know it kind of seems like they're regional 12:18.000 --> 12:24.640 and some you know the the bible talks about daniel praying and then the prince of persia is this 12:24.640 --> 12:29.600 devil that is apparently controlling and not allowing daniel's prayers to get to god 12:30.160 --> 12:33.920 so they have these powers and we don't really understand these things and i don't think we 12:33.920 --> 12:40.080 should really delve into it too much but the truth is is that they do have power like the sort the 12:40.080 --> 12:45.840 the magicians that that were with pharaoh they had power they turned the water into blood they 12:46.400 --> 12:51.280 you know through their their thing on their staff on the ground it became a snake and moses's eight 12:51.280 --> 12:58.960 is but um you know they still had these powers and so and then in the last very last times 12:58.960 --> 13:04.000 they're going to have power to call fire down from heaven and to show great miracles and that if it 13:04.000 --> 13:08.960 were possible they could deceive the very elect but because we're saved and we won't be fooled by 13:08.960 --> 13:14.720 those things but everybody else will be and so when you have these kind of bozos being your 13:14.720 --> 13:20.320 spiritual leaders these guys are going to tell you you know something and maybe part of it comes 13:20.320 --> 13:24.560 true and then people just think oh they are the right people to follow because they're calling 13:24.560 --> 13:28.800 these guys and and they're really subtle in the way that they deal with this whole situation 13:29.360 --> 13:32.960 and you might not have picked that up in the reading of it but i've read through this multiple 13:32.960 --> 13:38.960 times now and it's it's just like they're kind of sneaky how they how they work themselves into it 13:38.960 --> 13:44.880 to where they're right about stuff but in reality the reason why ultimately they stop 13:44.880 --> 13:49.920 destroying the philistines is because they give it back that is the only reason it's not because 13:49.920 --> 13:54.960 they give them you know five golden mice and five golden emirats which i'm not exactly sure what 13:54.960 --> 13:58.480 these emirats look like i don't really know if i want to have a mental picture of this but 13:59.040 --> 14:05.600 it you know put the h in front of it that's what it is and i just find that a very strange thing to 14:05.680 --> 14:12.640 offer to god like okay but those things are not what it's not like god asked for those things 14:12.640 --> 14:18.880 that for a trespass offering i i don't know chapter and verse on that so they're they're saying hey we 14:18.880 --> 14:24.000 got to do these things for a trespass offering but as far as i know god's asking for a trespass 14:24.000 --> 14:31.440 offering that is slaughtering some kind of lamb or or some kind of animal without blemish and 14:31.440 --> 14:35.680 that is what the trespass offerings are and i don't have it all memorized right now but i'm 14:35.680 --> 14:41.600 just saying that like it's some kind of shedding of blood to cover sins or as an atonement for sin 14:41.600 --> 14:49.200 and it's not making idols making more idols like god never asked for that so let's turn over to 14:49.200 --> 14:55.360 deuteronomy chapter 18 verse 10 though and god forbids us to get involved in this kind of stuff 14:56.160 --> 15:01.040 and it really has amazed me over the years how many people i've been with at the workplace or 15:01.040 --> 15:05.360 whatever that say they're christians or just people in general and they're reading their 15:05.360 --> 15:11.440 horoscopes in the morning with everybody and i'm just like that's bizarre like it's one of the 15:11.440 --> 15:16.480 first things that i think that you learn is like don't you don't mess with that stuff you know and 15:17.120 --> 15:22.480 god says he's very has very strong feelings about this so what it says deuteronomy 18 10 it says 15:22.480 --> 15:28.080 there should not be found among you anyone that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the 15:28.080 --> 15:35.840 fire or that useth divination or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch so they called 15:35.840 --> 15:41.440 for the diviners what does it say anyone that useth divination so it says or a charmer or 15:41.440 --> 15:46.000 a consultant with familiar spirits or a wizard or necromancer so he's putting all these people 15:46.000 --> 15:51.520 basically in the same classification right for all that do these things are an abomination unto 15:51.520 --> 15:56.560 the lord so it's not that it's no he just hates their sin no he it sounds like he hates them 15:57.280 --> 16:03.520 doesn't say they all the for all that do these things are an abomination unto the lord it's them 16:04.320 --> 16:09.120 he's he doesn't like them he obviously doesn't like what they do but he definitely doesn't like 16:09.120 --> 16:17.520 them either in fact abomination means that he it's like an intense hatred or detestable thing to god 16:18.160 --> 16:22.320 and because of these abominations the lord thy god doth drive them out from before thee 16:22.880 --> 16:26.720 what was one of the reasons why he got rid of canaan and said to come in and kill everything 16:26.720 --> 16:31.440 that breathes well because they're doing these types of things because they were doing sodomite 16:31.440 --> 16:36.960 acts because they were involved in witchcraft and human sacrifice that's why so it's not like 16:36.960 --> 16:42.800 they were just all these poor people they didn't know any better well i mean is that an excuse to 16:42.800 --> 16:49.200 god they do obviously know something that's wrong with it i mean i was just kind of listening to 16:49.200 --> 16:56.240 some podcasts about the aztecs and how when the conquistadors came over they were sacrificing 16:56.240 --> 17:03.440 children and they were watching them do it and so people were like you know the conquistadors came 17:03.440 --> 17:09.120 over and they just slaughtered them for no reason it's like well i mean if i came upon a place and 17:09.760 --> 17:15.040 you know i was a warrior and people were doing human sacrifices i would be like it's time to 17:15.040 --> 17:21.520 take these people out and and from some of the the the firsthand primary sources like 17:21.520 --> 17:27.360 it sounds like that cortez was trying to make peace agreements with them along the way 17:28.080 --> 17:32.240 i mean if you believe the primary sources primary sources are those people that were there when it 17:32.240 --> 17:40.160 happened you know the first uh firsthand witnesses and things like that so he said that like every 17:40.160 --> 17:44.720 step of the way basically that cortez was trying to just make these peaceful arrangements with them 17:44.720 --> 17:50.480 but they just kept attacking them um then you know they set up an ambush for them in this one 17:50.480 --> 17:55.440 city and they caught them before they could do it and they'd set up these like traps for their 17:55.440 --> 18:01.600 horses to step into these spikes and stuff and when cortez called them out on their bluff then 18:02.800 --> 18:06.160 you know they they attacked them and started throwing rocks and you know 18:06.160 --> 18:10.320 shooting them with arrows and stuff like that but they were attacking them first and then they were 18:10.320 --> 18:15.600 also sacked like they'd capture people and sacrifice into their gods while their hearts 18:15.600 --> 18:19.920 are still beating they pull them out of their chest and all that kind of stuff so pretty gruesome stuff 18:20.560 --> 18:27.600 and you know i mean i really don't feel sorry for them at all i mean you can go to the to the places 18:27.600 --> 18:32.800 where those those pyramids are still standing and the mayan pyramids are still standing and that's 18:32.800 --> 18:41.920 where they were sacrificing people and you know to their bloodlusting gods but so just like i 18:41.920 --> 18:45.840 wouldn't feel sorry for them for what happened i don't feel sorry for what happened to the canaanites 18:45.840 --> 18:51.920 either like people are like he's a ethnic cleanser and you know like these hard speeches that they 18:51.920 --> 18:56.880 give against god it's like well yeah but what were those people doing why was god so angry that he 18:56.880 --> 19:02.400 said kill everything that moves and don't let anything live like those people in the land had 19:02.400 --> 19:07.680 to go their surrounding enemies they could make friends with and and dealings with but they could 19:07.680 --> 19:12.000 not make dealings with the canaanites they were to kill them all and get rid of them because they 19:12.000 --> 19:19.760 were they were wicked so but you know the people that like to just rant against god will bring up 19:19.760 --> 19:26.560 these ethnic cleansers and these genocidal god's a genocidal maniac and all this other stuff 19:26.560 --> 19:32.080 it's like well they they were though they were perverts and they were also you know doing all 19:32.320 --> 19:39.440 of satanic witchcraft practices they were eating human flesh i mean their their plan when they when 19:39.440 --> 19:45.600 they tried to trap cortez and his men was to capture them sacrifice them and eat them 19:47.040 --> 19:50.880 i don't know in what order but it was they were going to do all those things 19:51.680 --> 19:56.880 and they discovered the plot and then they took action so i mean and i'm not saying that those 19:56.880 --> 20:01.760 guys were godly people either they were catholics obviously and believed in their false you know 20:02.240 --> 20:07.440 like they would say that you know saint justin or whatever saint saint somebody was helping them 20:07.440 --> 20:11.200 through the battles and all this other stuff so it's basically just a bunch of pagans fighting 20:11.200 --> 20:17.360 against pagans but one pagan was worse than the other i mean but then you know the catholic 20:17.360 --> 20:24.720 church got pretty bad too so anyway so so the bible says here verse 13 says thou shall be 20:24.720 --> 20:30.560 perfect with the lord thy god for these nations which thou shall possess hearkened unto observers 20:30.560 --> 20:37.200 of times and unto diviners see how they hearkened unto them so we're not supposed to hearken unto 20:37.200 --> 20:43.200 people like that don't listen to them do not get any advice from them nothing but as for thee the 20:43.200 --> 20:48.880 lord thy god has not suffered thee to do so he has not allowed us to partake in these types of things 20:48.880 --> 20:54.000 so going to get your palm red getting your tarot cards red and all this other stuff that is not 20:54.000 --> 20:59.440 something that christians should ever participate in or playing with ouija boards or whatever 21:00.080 --> 21:06.000 that is stuff that's that's forbidden to people of god and it's it's just forbidden period but 21:06.000 --> 21:10.480 when you're when you're saved it's it's even worse because you're just basically you're going 21:10.480 --> 21:14.800 to somebody else besides god to get your answers look we got the answers we need in the in this 21:14.800 --> 21:19.680 book right here it's in front of your face hopefully and we have all the answers we need 21:19.680 --> 21:23.920 from the bible you know and back then they had the prophets to go to they had the high priest to go 21:23.920 --> 21:29.760 to the ask and inquire of god at that time well not this time because their high priest is dead 21:29.760 --> 21:36.560 but they could ask samuel you know but anyway so now divination is the practice of attempting to 21:36.560 --> 21:42.400 foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge through supernatural occult or intuitive means 21:43.120 --> 21:49.840 it involves interpreting signs omens or using specific rituals such as tarot astrology or 21:49.840 --> 21:56.640 scrying to gain insights beyond ordinary human understanding you know have you ever heard that 21:56.640 --> 22:03.040 term well you're not really reading the tea leaves that is also divination you know that like looking 22:03.040 --> 22:09.280 at tea leaves to see like well it's just a weird deal but but they also you know when saul went to 22:09.280 --> 22:15.520 the witch at endor she thought that she was calling up her familiar spirit but it actually 22:15.520 --> 22:21.280 was samuel in reality she thought she's calling her familiar friend this demon that tells her 22:21.280 --> 22:27.040 stuff and here's the thing here's how this stuff can hook into people really easily you know if 22:27.040 --> 22:32.880 some familiar spirit knows your family and they know generational stuff about your family and they 22:32.880 --> 22:39.280 know that your grandpa lost his wedding ring down the down the sink drain or something in 1932 22:39.920 --> 22:44.560 you could be in one of these little psychic places or jonathan edwards or one of these weirdos are 22:44.960 --> 22:50.000 are saying that they can you know know stuff about you he's talking to his familiar spirit 22:50.000 --> 22:55.280 his familiar spirit knows certain things about people in that room and he could say well hey 22:55.280 --> 23:01.600 did you lose a ring you know like in 19 did your grandfather lose a ring in 1932 yeah how did you 23:01.600 --> 23:07.200 know that and it's like yeah the demon told me you know but they're not going to say that they're 23:07.200 --> 23:12.480 going to say grandpa told me that i'm talking to grandfather but it's not really grandfather it's a 23:12.560 --> 23:17.280 demon and they know this these psychics or whatever but and look i'm not saying all of 23:17.280 --> 23:21.920 it's real some of these people are charlatans but some of it is real and that's why god like 23:21.920 --> 23:26.960 if it wasn't real why would god tell us to not mess around with it because it is and you're opening 23:26.960 --> 23:32.080 yourself up to satanic forces that you don't understand and you don't understand the power 23:32.080 --> 23:36.960 that they have obviously i don't believe that a christian can be possessed by a familiar spirit 23:36.960 --> 23:42.960 or by some kind of a devil but i do think that they can influence and and you know cause problems 23:42.960 --> 23:48.800 for us so and that's why you shouldn't be up here going like oh i'm gonna box with the devil 23:48.800 --> 23:52.880 tonight and you know stupid things like that because he would crush you in like five seconds so 23:53.680 --> 24:00.960 not even five you know he god holds him back from us just like he held him back from job 24:00.960 --> 24:08.480 and the devil had to get permission from god to even touch job at all so and he loves us 24:08.480 --> 24:14.640 just like he loves job and you know he protects us too so those those things should comfort you 24:14.640 --> 24:21.200 at least but don't mess around with this stuff because it's forbidden to us right so numbers 24:21.200 --> 24:27.280 let's see numbers 22 verse 5 numbers 22 verse 5 i really got to hurry up here 24:28.080 --> 24:35.440 uh so balam was a was a soothsayer balam was a diviner but a lot of people were like was he 24:35.440 --> 24:40.160 like a prophet of god because it's kind of weird that he god talks to him and says things to him 24:40.160 --> 24:44.160 and that was confusing to me like when i was early on in my christianity i was like 24:44.160 --> 24:49.200 what is this guy good or bad like i couldn't really figure it out but the new testament tells 24:49.200 --> 24:55.440 us he was a false prophet you know he was greedy of game but in numbers 22 verse 5 it says he sent 24:55.440 --> 25:01.200 messengers therefore unto balam the son of bior to pithor which is by the river of the land of the 25:01.200 --> 25:05.600 children of the people to call him saying behold there's a people come out from egypt behold they 25:05.600 --> 25:10.960 cover the face of the earth and they abide over against me come now therefore i pray thee curse 25:10.960 --> 25:17.440 me this people for they are too mighty for me peradventure i shall prevail that we may smite them 25:17.440 --> 25:23.600 and that i may drive them out of the land for i want not that he whom thou blesses is blessed 25:23.600 --> 25:29.440 and he whom now curses is cursed so he's saying i know that when balam curses someone they get 25:29.440 --> 25:35.520 cursed when he blesses someone they get blessed so he knows that balam has his power but god won't 25:35.520 --> 25:40.640 let him do this he does not allow him that's why balam tells him i can only do i can only 25:40.640 --> 25:45.600 go as far as the lord will allow me to go he's not and you know god just kept saying it he just 25:45.600 --> 25:50.800 he kept blessing the children of israel instead of cursing them but what was the thing that he 25:50.800 --> 25:56.880 was using what did he tell the king of moab that he had to do in order to have the divination come 25:56.880 --> 26:04.800 forth he had to sacrifice things didn't he he had to sacrifice animals so it's kind you know he's 26:04.800 --> 26:11.360 doing it for this other purpose but those but those sacrifices aren't going to god those sacrifices 26:11.360 --> 26:17.200 are going to somebody else so isn't it isn't it weird that all over the world you have pyramids 26:17.280 --> 26:25.200 built all these uh you have priests all over you have these snake uh cults and and occultic 26:25.200 --> 26:30.080 type behavior like how did everybody know how to do that it's because they have the same master 26:30.080 --> 26:36.080 that teaches them these things and why does it eventually end up in cannibalism and human 26:36.080 --> 26:42.560 sacrifice because that's the very end of their wickedness and the devil wants to kill people 26:42.560 --> 26:48.080 and he hates us and wants to kill us because we look like jesus we look like i mean you know we're 26:48.080 --> 26:54.400 we're made in god's image he doesn't like that so um so it says and the elders of moab and the 26:54.400 --> 26:59.760 elders of midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand and they came in 26:59.760 --> 27:04.560 unto balem and spake unto him the words of balak so what are they doing they're offering him money 27:05.200 --> 27:10.080 to be able to curse these people and look these types of people do this now you know you got to 27:10.080 --> 27:15.040 pay these psychics to read your poems and read your minds and use the crystal balls and all this 27:15.040 --> 27:20.240 other stuff and look they might tell you something that might be true but most of the stuff is not 27:20.240 --> 27:25.440 true and if you follow the stuff that's not true what are you following in your life you're 27:25.440 --> 27:30.000 following something that's not really god's plan for you and so there's tons of people all over the 27:30.000 --> 27:34.480 world that believe in this stuff and yeah we're christians so we're separate from this stuff 27:34.480 --> 27:39.360 for the most part but i mean think back in a time when it wasn't so separate for you 27:39.920 --> 27:46.240 and there's a lot of people into this stuff a lot of people into astrology and palm reading and all 27:46.240 --> 27:51.360 this kind of stuff and we got to stay far away from it and children you better stay far away from 27:51.360 --> 28:01.680 this stuff do not play around with this stuff at all so uh but at least okay i can say this that 28:01.680 --> 28:06.400 at least they're on the right track to get rid of the arc here look at verse three says and they said 28:06.400 --> 28:13.440 if i sit back in our text it says and if and they said if you send away the ark of the god of israel 28:13.440 --> 28:19.280 send it not empty but in any wise return him a trespass offering then you shall be healed and it 28:19.280 --> 28:25.360 shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you so what are they doing they're kind of 28:25.360 --> 28:30.960 divining things here aren't they they're saying then you shall be healed and it shall be known 28:31.040 --> 28:36.560 to you why his hand is not removed from you so they're kind of prophesying here to their people 28:37.440 --> 28:42.560 and teaching them some things that like they're gonna so they're they went to them to seek the 28:42.560 --> 28:48.800 answers and then they're going to try to kind of lay out something that's it's kind of a broad 28:48.800 --> 28:56.320 saying so that like it looks like the things that they say are coming to pass and and again why did 28:56.320 --> 29:01.040 god take his hands off of them because they got rid of the ark that was all they had to do just 29:01.040 --> 29:06.240 send the ark away from them you didn't have to put all this other stuff on there you just had to just 29:06.240 --> 29:11.760 get you know get it out of your presence and get it away from you because look god doesn't his 29:11.760 --> 29:17.600 presence doesn't want to be among a bunch of devil worshiping heathen that sacrifice children into 29:17.600 --> 29:23.520 the fires and do all this divination god he's not going to be able to rest in a place like that and 29:23.520 --> 29:27.760 obviously god's not permanently attached to the ark or something like in that in that way but 29:28.560 --> 29:35.680 it's still the it's the it's it's it is his representation of of holiness and where he 29:35.680 --> 29:42.560 where his seat is on this earth and have it being in a bunch of god-forsaken heathen territories 29:42.560 --> 29:48.400 he's going to just cloud up and rain on him and he he wants to be back he wants the ark back to 29:48.400 --> 29:57.280 where it belongs in the first place so so they're saying well you'll be healed if you send it back 29:57.280 --> 30:03.440 okay verse four then said they what shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him 30:03.440 --> 30:08.320 they answered five golden emirats and five golden mice according to the number of the lords of the 30:08.320 --> 30:15.840 philistines for one plague was on you all and on your lord so all so everybody had the emirats 30:15.840 --> 30:19.280 everybody had the plagues of mice in their house in their fields and whatnot 30:20.240 --> 30:27.040 therefore you shall make images of your emirats and images of your mice that mar the land and 30:27.040 --> 30:32.880 you shall give glory unto the god of israel is that true though you make these you make these 30:32.880 --> 30:38.640 images and god and you're going to give god glory to the god of israel is that true of course it's 30:38.640 --> 30:45.440 not true he specifically says i mean in the last in the last chapter you know we looked at the 30:45.440 --> 30:49.680 ten commandments where it says that you're not supposed to make any graven images and then they're 30:49.680 --> 30:53.760 telling them to make graven images and god's going to be glorified because of that they're lying to 30:53.760 --> 31:00.400 them and this is what false prophets do and false teachers do and false ministers do deuteronomy 31:00.400 --> 31:04.960 chapter 5 you don't have to turn there but it says if you want to you can but this is like called the 31:04.960 --> 31:11.120 second law so moses goes over the ten commandments with them again it says thou should have none other 31:11.120 --> 31:16.960 gods before me thou should not make thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that 31:16.960 --> 31:22.080 is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water beneath the earth 31:22.080 --> 31:28.320 are mice on the earth yes so are they allowed to make those images no they're not especially 31:28.320 --> 31:34.960 as a trespass offering to god and this is bizarre thou shall not bow down myself unto them nor serve 31:34.960 --> 31:39.200 them for i the lord thy god am a jealous god visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the 31:39.200 --> 31:44.240 children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and showing mercy into 31:44.240 --> 31:49.440 thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments so god's not pleased when people 31:49.440 --> 31:58.960 deal with idolatry at all so continuing in first amiel chapter 6 the second half of verse 5 it says 32:00.000 --> 32:07.120 and paired venture which means perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and from off your 32:07.120 --> 32:13.840 gods and from off your land so he's saying if you make these mice you make these graven images you 32:13.840 --> 32:22.160 make these emeralds out of gold and and give them to god as a trespass offering perhaps he will 32:22.160 --> 32:27.280 lighten his hand from off of you and from off your gods and from off your land but that's not really 32:27.280 --> 32:33.760 true either because that has nothing to do with it that's not and like so they think that they're 32:33.760 --> 32:38.640 going to think here in the end though that when they send these cows off with the ark 32:38.640 --> 32:43.920 that the reason why god put his hand off of them is because they gave those those images to them 32:43.920 --> 32:49.280 do you understand what i'm saying so they're going to think that because these guys are 32:49.280 --> 32:54.720 charlatans and they're just fooling them they're taking an opportunity to lie to them even more 32:54.720 --> 33:00.320 and deceive them even more so and this is kind of like the state of christianity in a lot of ways 33:00.400 --> 33:06.480 today creatures not knowing or carrying what god expects because most of them aren't even saved in 33:06.480 --> 33:11.920 the first place that's really the problem and so when somebody that gets up it doesn't it's not 33:11.920 --> 33:16.160 saved and tries to teach the bible at all they're going to come up with a lot of weird things 33:17.440 --> 33:22.560 so they just don't so they're going to say things that you should be doing that you shouldn't be 33:22.560 --> 33:27.920 doing and they're going to try to incorporate things into church services and things like that 33:27.920 --> 33:31.760 that shouldn't be incorporated into church services they're going to tell you to do things 33:31.760 --> 33:35.600 that aren't in the bible because they don't know the bible themselves and they don't understand 33:35.600 --> 33:41.280 the application of the bible they don't understand the bible at all and so you this is you know this 33:41.280 --> 33:47.040 is false religion they lead people astray and even christianity quote unquote where people 33:47.600 --> 33:51.760 that aren't saved get up and teach the bible and don't know what there's i mean if you're teaching 33:52.320 --> 33:57.440 your congregation that you can lose your salvation you're not saved you're just not saved 33:57.920 --> 34:01.840 that person's not saved don't listen to that person you might as well just be listening to 34:01.840 --> 34:07.840 these idolatrous priests you might as well just be listening to you know these diviners because 34:07.840 --> 34:13.120 that's how saved they are but they're even worse because they're pretending to be christians which 34:13.120 --> 34:20.880 makes it even worse so now so they're they're scared to death that they're going to offend 34:20.880 --> 34:24.800 you know these preachers are scared to death today that they're going to offend someone in their 34:24.800 --> 34:30.400 church instead of getting up and ripping and saying what the bible says and that's a big 34:30.400 --> 34:35.200 problem in our country today they're so they're more scared of the congregation than they are 34:35.200 --> 34:39.600 of god they're more worried about whether the congregation is going to like their sermon 34:39.600 --> 34:43.840 than they are of whether god's going to like their sermon or not and like that's the most 34:43.840 --> 34:48.320 important thing does god like your sermon you know when the men get up here and preach does god like 34:48.320 --> 34:52.400 your sermon that's what your goal should be it shouldn't be should does pastor thompson like my 34:52.400 --> 34:58.480 sermon do the men in the church like my sermon it should be does god like my sermon so that that 34:58.480 --> 35:04.080 should be the main concern and like you're like well you just didn't like it because you're weak 35:04.080 --> 35:10.160 pastor thompson no maybe i just didn't like it because it wasn't biblical but that could be it 35:10.160 --> 35:17.360 i mean i don't know but verse six says wherefore then do you harden your hearts as the egyptians 35:17.360 --> 35:21.760 and pharaoh hardened their hearts when he had wrought wonderfully among them did they not 35:21.760 --> 35:27.440 let the people go and they departed so here's like one instance where a broken clock is right twice 35:27.440 --> 35:32.400 in a day right so they actually say something that's actually high you know halfway intelligent 35:32.400 --> 35:38.400 here they're saying don't harden your hearts and i think what they mean by that is that to give back 35:38.400 --> 35:42.960 their trophy which is the ark of the covenant they have they're they've hardened their hearts and 35:42.960 --> 35:47.440 they're that's why it's been there for seven months passing from person from town to town 35:47.440 --> 35:51.280 because they just don't want to get rid of it and now they're at the point where they're asking these 35:51.280 --> 35:56.000 people what should we do with it and then they're because these guys are smart enough to know we need 35:56.000 --> 36:01.360 to get this out of here you know they serve the devil they know exactly you know how powerful god 36:01.360 --> 36:06.560 is the last thing they want is god's presence anywhere near them or god's judgment anywhere 36:06.560 --> 36:10.640 near them if it doesn't have to be so they're going to tell the people yeah let's get rid of 36:10.640 --> 36:14.800 this thing and here let me tell you a bunch of lies so that you'll believe us and false keep following 36:14.800 --> 36:22.320 your false religion at the same time so but they are right about this and it says when they 36:23.200 --> 36:28.640 when they rot wonderfully among them did they not let the people go and they departed yeah after the 36:28.640 --> 36:34.960 tenth time after he killed their firstborn i mean farrow's heart was hardened and didn't do anything 36:34.960 --> 36:43.200 until until it was you know to the point where his firstborn died so god is just going to keep 36:44.000 --> 36:49.200 pulverizing these people because they're keeping this like a trophy like a like you know it's just 36:49.200 --> 36:55.280 it's just a retarded logic that they're using right now and imagine keeping it for seven months 36:55.280 --> 37:00.160 knowing this it is pride it is hardness of heart to not just send it back where it belongs verse 37:00.160 --> 37:07.840 seven now therefore make a new cart and take two milch kind on which there hath come no yoke and 37:07.840 --> 37:14.160 tie the kind to the cart and bring their calves home from them so these kind these are cows these 37:14.160 --> 37:20.240 are what we would call cows basically and so they're telling them hey make a new cart and put this 37:20.960 --> 37:27.360 put these cows and that's never had a yoke on them ever and have them carry the cart so i don't know 37:27.360 --> 37:33.760 if this is supposed to be some sort of holiness thing to them or what but their solution is not 37:33.760 --> 37:39.280 what the bible says to do with the cart but again they are ignorant of the bible that that much is 37:39.280 --> 37:48.400 very clear so josea in chapter four verse six says my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge 37:48.400 --> 37:54.640 because thou has rejected knowledge i will reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing 37:54.640 --> 38:00.640 that thou has forgotten the law of thy god i will also forget thy children god you know when 38:01.600 --> 38:07.120 he's saying that his people are destroyed for lack of knowledge his people so like what happens to 38:07.120 --> 38:14.000 these bestiamites those are his people and they're destroyed they get destroyed because of their lack 38:14.000 --> 38:19.040 of knowledge of the bible and so he's just saying like hey you can't be a priest to me you don't 38:19.040 --> 38:24.240 even know what i want you don't even know what the bible says and after this uzo will pay the 38:24.240 --> 38:30.000 ultimate price too because the mistake just keeps getting made let's make a cart and put this on a 38:30.000 --> 38:35.120 cart and send it on down the line right and it's just like even at the very end of this chapter 38:35.120 --> 38:41.440 they're like send a kirjath jareem and let's let's hey come get this ark you know it's like 38:41.440 --> 38:46.080 if the hot potato just keeps passing on down the line you know and so like at the very end the very 38:46.080 --> 38:52.160 last verse of this chapter they're just like hey well he killed 50 000 of us well let's send it down 38:52.160 --> 38:57.120 to these people and see it let them deal with it or whatever it's just kind of again people still 38:57.120 --> 39:06.080 doing what is right in their own minds and their own hearts but uza because david fails to read the 39:06.080 --> 39:11.920 bible and obviously the priests that are in charge of that time they don't know what they're supposed 39:11.920 --> 39:16.080 to be doing they're not doing it right because don't you think they would just tell david hey 39:16.080 --> 39:23.120 maybe we shouldn't do this maybe we shouldn't make another new cart and transport these things 39:23.200 --> 39:29.600 and then uza doesn't grab the ark when it stumbles and then uza doesn't get a breach through him 39:30.240 --> 39:34.720 you know uza is killed before the lord and then the bible says that david feared the 39:34.720 --> 39:39.920 was afraid of the lord that day and maybe that was good for him because he needed to have a healthy 39:39.920 --> 39:45.440 fear of who god was because you know he's dancing around and stuff and then you know 39:46.400 --> 39:54.160 uza is dead so it's more it's sometimes it's not you know obviously having this the right spirit 39:54.160 --> 40:00.400 about you is very important and interpreting the scriptures in spirit is very important but that 40:00.400 --> 40:05.120 doesn't mean that you just reject all the things that you're not supposed to do either it's not 40:05.120 --> 40:10.240 like you know these people that are just like oh you're just you could you worry too much about 40:10.320 --> 40:15.680 the dos and the don'ts man you know we're in the new testament bro and all this other stuff 40:16.560 --> 40:21.680 because there are still rules there are still things that god says to not do in the new testament 40:21.680 --> 40:25.680 there are still things that make him angry there are still things that he will punish you for 40:25.680 --> 40:29.040 there are still things that he would kill you for ananias and sephira 40:30.560 --> 40:36.480 so that yes they were saved they were in church just because god killed them doesn't mean that 40:36.480 --> 40:40.480 they weren't saved that's like saying that these 50 000 people none of them were saved either 40:41.040 --> 40:48.000 even though they're like happy to see the ark they're all excited about it but look god doesn't play 40:48.000 --> 40:54.000 around when it comes to certain things and that's why he gave us this book so that we could actually 40:54.000 --> 40:59.920 know what it says that's why he gave it to us so we would read it and know what he expects from us 41:00.560 --> 41:04.080 but some people act like it just doesn't you know oh it doesn't really matter 41:05.040 --> 41:08.960 i got my you know get out of jail free card and i could just do whatever i want 41:09.600 --> 41:15.600 and that's just not how god is you know sometimes i think people forget the nature of god he is a 41:15.600 --> 41:23.040 loving god he loves god is love i agree with that but god is also wrath god is also can be hateful 41:23.040 --> 41:31.200 sometimes and god can get really angry and you know puff up and show you exactly that he's not 41:31.200 --> 41:40.480 somebody to be trifled with so look at uh well matthew chapter this kind of this this this 41:40.480 --> 41:45.920 passage kind of reminds me of like matthew when jesus says let them alone they be blind leaders 41:45.920 --> 41:51.600 of the blind and if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch so hey let's call these 41:51.600 --> 41:57.040 priests and diviners who don't know anything and have them teach us something and it's like they're 41:57.040 --> 42:01.120 just being led by they're being led by the slaughter and this is what false religion 42:01.120 --> 42:05.760 and false christianity does today and people are like why are you so hateful why do you preach 42:05.760 --> 42:10.240 against billy graham why do you preach against that ravage zacharias and why do you why do you 42:10.240 --> 42:15.280 say things about these people that are messing with the bible and you know why because they're 42:15.280 --> 42:22.160 sending people to hell that's why because they deserve to be ripped on because god rips on them 42:22.160 --> 42:28.160 in the bible i mean it's like paul he's naming names you know there's people's names in here 42:28.160 --> 42:33.120 that will live forever in infamy i mean i don't i wonder sometimes if that's where that line came 42:33.120 --> 42:38.880 from because if your name's in the bible and you're an enemy of god and your name is in the bible 42:38.880 --> 42:44.480 you your name will live forever in infamy that's just the truth of the matter you know we say it 42:44.480 --> 42:49.680 as as a political speech or whatever but it's actually true when some enemy of god in the bible 42:49.680 --> 42:56.480 is named you know kora dathan abiram all these all these guys these aren't good people in the 42:56.480 --> 43:02.000 bible you know and when people are harkening unto them i mean when kora dathan abiram are thrown 43:02.000 --> 43:06.640 into hell people are like you killed the people of the lord like what are you talking about 43:06.640 --> 43:13.120 they went to hell how are they the people of the lord please explain that to me verse 8 43:13.760 --> 43:19.440 and take the ark of the lord and lay it upon the cart and put the jewels of gold which he returned 43:20.400 --> 43:25.120 him for a trespass offering in a coffer by the side thereof and send it away that it may go 43:25.840 --> 43:32.400 and see if it go up by the way of his own coast to besh to besh then he hath done us this great evil 43:32.400 --> 43:36.160 so this is this is their little prophecy here pay attention what they're saying here 43:37.280 --> 43:42.960 but if not then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us it was a chance that happened 43:42.960 --> 43:49.120 to us just was chance you know i mean this is the these are their spiritual leaders 43:50.240 --> 43:54.560 but it's funny that god does allow the cat the cattle to go the way of besh to mesh because 43:54.560 --> 44:01.280 it's like no god did do it to us so sorry suckers but god did do it to us but see how they can still 44:01.280 --> 44:06.560 position themselves to be right though because both both things are going to come to one of 44:06.560 --> 44:09.600 those things are going to come to pass they're either going to take that way to best to mesh 44:09.600 --> 44:13.600 because i mean cows when they start walking and they maybe have blinders on they're just going 44:13.600 --> 44:17.840 to keep walking in the same general direction but maybe there was a split that they could have 44:17.840 --> 44:22.320 took and they didn't take that split well that was probably god it's not a lot you know he did 44:22.320 --> 44:26.960 the last thing he didn't want the philistines to think necessarily or to let them think for themselves 44:26.960 --> 44:32.560 is that you know he didn't do that to them so they do take the road to besh to mesh though don't they 44:33.200 --> 44:43.120 it says and and the men did so and took the two milch kind and tied them to the cart and shut up 44:43.120 --> 44:48.560 the calves at home and they laid the ark of the lord upon the cart and the coffer with the mice 44:48.560 --> 44:54.480 of gold and the images of their emirats and the kind took the straight way to the way of best 44:54.480 --> 44:59.520 to mesh that's actually a good a good verse there they took the straight way you know straight as the 44:59.520 --> 45:04.320 way and straight as the gate narrows the way that leadeth unto life and few there read it find it 45:04.320 --> 45:09.680 but anyway they took the kind or the the kind took the straight way to the way of best to mesh 45:09.680 --> 45:15.360 and went along the highway lowing as they went and turned on a side to the right hand or to the left 45:16.000 --> 45:21.680 and the lords of the philistines went after them onto the border of best to mesh not like they're 45:21.680 --> 45:25.600 not trying to chase them but they just want to see where they're going right and they of best to mesh 45:25.600 --> 45:29.760 were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley they lifted up their eyes and they saw the ark 45:29.760 --> 45:34.320 and rejoiced to see it you know the ark oh we see the because it's this you know they didn't know 45:34.320 --> 45:38.320 what happened to it the philistines took it they haven't seen it in seven months so they're happy 45:38.320 --> 45:45.200 about this and it says and the ark came into the field of joshua the best of mine and stood there 45:45.920 --> 45:51.600 and there where there was a great stone and they clave the wood of the ark of the cart excuse me 45:51.680 --> 45:56.320 and offered the kind of burnt offering into the lord so this is more like what god wants 45:56.320 --> 46:01.040 you know you're going to do a trespass offering cut the wood up from the from the cart and then 46:01.040 --> 46:06.160 cut this cut those calves up or cut those kind up and then burn them as a burnt offering to the 46:06.160 --> 46:11.440 lord doesn't that's what god actually requires so far so good they're doing fine right there's 46:11.440 --> 46:17.520 nothing wrong with that and the levites took down the ark of the lord this is a very important part 46:17.520 --> 46:24.640 of the sermon here the levites took down the ark of the lord and the coffer that was with it 46:24.640 --> 46:29.520 wherein the jewels of gold were and put them on the great stone and the men of best shemesh 46:29.520 --> 46:35.520 offered burnt offerings and sacrifices sacrifice and sacrifice sacrifices the same day onto the 46:35.520 --> 46:41.760 lord so everything's going good you're like here i am to worship you know they're just everything's 46:41.840 --> 46:48.400 going great the purple lights come on the smoke you know they're just like having this great time 46:48.400 --> 46:54.400 of celebration and everything's just going awesome because you know the ark is back and you know 46:54.400 --> 46:59.600 strike up the music you know play the drums you know get the plexiglass pulpit out you know let's 46:59.600 --> 47:04.880 get the altar calls going and you know because they got the new cart it's like new cart christianity 47:04.880 --> 47:11.200 right this everything is new here they're they're they're they're grooving so but it says the 47:11.200 --> 47:17.280 levites took down the ark so then they did the sacrifices verse 16 and when the five lords of 47:17.280 --> 47:22.640 the philistines had seen it they returned to ekron the same day they're like see ya you know 47:22.640 --> 47:29.840 we're done this is our part is you know yay we're free from this and these are the golden emirats 47:29.840 --> 47:34.400 which the philistines returned for a trespass offering under the lord for ashjod one for gaza 47:34.400 --> 47:40.480 one for ashkalon one for gath one for ekron one so these are the five cities of the five lords of 47:40.480 --> 47:47.280 the philistines so so there's going to be a quiz later maybe not tonight though and the gold mice 47:47.280 --> 47:52.160 according to the number of all the cities of the philistines belonging to the five lords both of 47:52.160 --> 47:59.280 fence cities and of country villages even unto the great stone of abel where on they set down the ark 47:59.280 --> 48:04.560 of the lord which stone remaineth under the this day in the field of joshua the beshamite 48:06.240 --> 48:10.400 so everything's going great you know they're just you know they're waving their hands 48:10.960 --> 48:20.480 you know i can only imagine when that day comes and then god is not pleased though he says and 48:20.480 --> 48:26.080 he smote the men of beshamesh because they had looked into the ark of the lord even he smote of 48:26.080 --> 48:33.680 the people 50 000 and three score and 10 men that's a lot of people that's the size of a of a of a 48:33.680 --> 48:39.200 huge like a football arena basically maybe half of a football arena at least or a small football 48:39.200 --> 48:47.360 arena that's a lot of people though so of course you know to soften the blow this the the new scribes 48:47.360 --> 48:52.080 the new versions will say that's a scribal error it's only 70 people 48:52.640 --> 48:58.000 yeah i when i was looking when i was looking into some of this stuff they're like yeah it really 48:58.000 --> 49:02.800 should say 70 people not 50 000 70 people because like they don't want god to look like a monster 49:02.800 --> 49:10.880 here but to me they're just they're they're light they're making light of it like he only killed 70 49:10.880 --> 49:15.520 people you know that's enough 50 000 seems like a lot 49:15.520 --> 49:16.240 seems like a lot 49:18.720 --> 49:23.440 i mean he didn't kill the philistines he didn't kill 50 000 philistines but these are god's people 49:23.440 --> 49:27.600 though these are the ones that should know better than to open up the ark and look inside of it 49:27.600 --> 49:33.680 they should know the bible they should know what the bible says and they they done messed up 49:35.040 --> 49:42.480 they done messed up big time because god killed 50 000 and the bible doesn't stutter here 49:42.480 --> 49:48.160 and three scoring 10 men that's 50 000 and 70 men and the people lamented because the lord had 49:48.160 --> 49:54.400 smitten many of the people with a great slaughter so if it was only 70 why would they lament so hard 49:55.040 --> 50:01.360 and say that that that the lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter 70 people 50:01.360 --> 50:08.720 isn't a great slaughter i would say i mean you know it would be in our church but but as far as 50:08.720 --> 50:13.680 like you know this land apparently i mean it just that just doesn't make sense that they would say 50:13.680 --> 50:20.960 that but it says and the man of beshamech said who is able to stand before this this holy lord god 50:21.680 --> 50:32.320 and to whom shall he go up from us so why would god do this why would like why would he just kill 50:32.320 --> 50:40.240 50 000 people like this in and one at one time 50 070 well let's look at numbers chapter four real 50:40.240 --> 50:46.640 quick numbers chapter four and we'll i'll try to skim through some some of this that i don't have 50:46.640 --> 50:53.200 to read but there's specific rules about dealing with the ark and they've basically broken every 50:53.200 --> 51:00.000 one of them it says when the camp set forth aran shall come this is the high priest and his sons 51:00.000 --> 51:05.280 and they shall take down the covering veil and cover the ark of testimony with it was the ark 51:05.280 --> 51:12.000 covered when they brought it i don't think it was it doesn't it never mentions this so and i know 51:12.000 --> 51:16.400 that aran didn't cover it i know that the high priest didn't cover it because he was sitting there 51:16.400 --> 51:21.040 kicking back in his chair while his reprobate sons are taking the ark and parading it all over the 51:21.040 --> 51:28.080 place uh acting like it's gonna you know shoot lasers out of it or something so and it says 51:28.080 --> 51:33.520 and shall put there on the covering of badger skin and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of 51:33.520 --> 51:38.320 blue and shall put in the staves thereof so the only way you're supposed to carry this thing is 51:38.320 --> 51:43.680 with staves those are sticks that go through those through the holes and then you carry it on your 51:43.680 --> 51:47.680 shoulders the leviets were supposed to carry it by hand they weren't supposed to put it on a cart 51:47.680 --> 51:54.560 they weren't supposed to send it on a train they were supposed to carry it manually okay it says 51:54.560 --> 51:59.280 and upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue and put there in the dishes and 51:59.280 --> 52:05.040 the spoons and the bowls and the covers to cover with all and the continual showbread shall be there 52:05.040 --> 52:09.840 on and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet and cover the same with a covering of 52:09.840 --> 52:15.440 badger skin and shall put in the staves thereof so basically everything that was like the main 52:15.440 --> 52:20.880 furniture that they were supposed to do the pre the high priest and his sons were supposed to do these 52:20.960 --> 52:24.880 main things like lighting the making sure the candle was lit the showbread was out 52:25.440 --> 52:30.320 all and lighting the incense and then once a year going into the ark of the covenant 52:30.320 --> 52:35.840 nobody was supposed to set eyes on the ark of the covenant let alone ride around with it all over 52:35.840 --> 52:41.760 the place and everybody's just looking inside of it so skip to verse 15 it says and when erin and 52:41.760 --> 52:47.280 his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary and all the vessels and the sanctuary as the camp 52:47.280 --> 52:53.120 is set forward after that the sons of kohath shall come to bear it but they shall not touch 52:53.120 --> 52:59.440 any holy thing lest they die these things are the burden of the sons of kohath in the tabernacle 52:59.440 --> 53:05.440 of the congregation so in verse 15 what it say the levites come and took it down off the cart 53:06.960 --> 53:11.680 did they put the staves through it were those the sons of kohath or were they just i mean it doesn't 53:12.240 --> 53:17.360 what type of levites they were but they surely were not supposed to be putting their hands on 53:17.360 --> 53:21.840 it without having it covered up by the other priest i mean surely these guys would know 53:21.840 --> 53:26.080 hey the philistines didn't know any better we'll just say that they didn't know maybe we should 53:26.080 --> 53:31.840 send some letters and find out how to move this thing okay fair enough but the children of israel 53:32.800 --> 53:37.360 you know and the guys that are supposed to know the bible they get up and touch the ark and pull 53:37.440 --> 53:43.120 it down and they're having this you know kumbaya party or whatever and thinking everything's cool 53:43.120 --> 53:47.920 and then god just comes down and just smokes 50 000 people because they're just willy-nilly 53:47.920 --> 53:51.840 just looking inside the ark like they that's just something that they're allowed to do 53:53.440 --> 53:58.320 it's not it's not something they're allowed to do it's spelling it out for you right here it says 53:58.320 --> 54:02.400 these things are the burden of the sons of kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation 54:02.400 --> 54:06.960 and to the office of eliezer the son of aron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light in the 54:06.960 --> 54:11.760 sweet incense and the daily meat offering and the anointing oil and the oversight of all the 54:11.760 --> 54:17.600 tabernacle and all that therein is and in the sanctuary and in the vessels thereof and the 54:17.600 --> 54:22.560 lord spake unto moses and unto aron saying cut you not off the tribe of the families of the 54:22.560 --> 54:28.800 kohathites from among the leviates but thus do unto them that they may live and not die when they 54:28.800 --> 54:34.800 approach unto the most holy things aron and his son shall go in and appoint them everyone to his 54:34.800 --> 54:41.280 service and to his burden but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered less 54:41.280 --> 54:47.520 what does it say there less they die so the kohathites weren't even allowed to go i mean 54:47.520 --> 54:51.920 the guys that are supposed to be moving it they're not even supposed to look at them unless they're 54:51.920 --> 54:58.080 covered up with these three things the the the blue the scarlet and the badger skin has to be 54:58.080 --> 55:02.240 covering every single thing that they're picking up and carrying all they can see are the staves 55:02.240 --> 55:07.760 that are hanging out that's it and then these specific guys are supposed to be done like 55:07.760 --> 55:13.280 like god does have some things that he really does care about you specifically doing and i'm 55:13.280 --> 55:18.000 thinking that these are specific things that he's saying i don't think he's stuttering here this 55:18.000 --> 55:23.760 isn't hard to understand they're like well what's the big deal the big deal is that god said not to 55:23.760 --> 55:30.560 do it it's holy unto him the ark was a holy thing and you know obviously it's not a big deal to us 55:30.560 --> 55:38.720 it were in the new testament i get that but then it was a big deal and so these 50 000 men died in 55:38.720 --> 55:44.640 best of mesh because the leadership didn't know the bible they didn't know the bible and it just 55:44.640 --> 55:49.520 everybody was doing that was just right in their own eyes and like it is a lot like christianity 55:49.520 --> 55:54.000 today and what's sad is when the people that should know the bible don't know the bible 55:55.040 --> 56:00.160 and they get suckered in and duped by the stupidest things and i'm like how long have you been going 56:00.160 --> 56:04.480 to this church and you don't know these things these things have been thundered for from this 56:04.480 --> 56:10.400 pulpit from many different men of god preaching the same things and then you're just like i don't 56:10.400 --> 56:16.880 think god punishes people anymore in the new testament like are you stupid how many stinking 56:16.880 --> 56:22.080 verses are there that say that in the bible let alone not only just in the old testament but how 56:22.080 --> 56:29.600 about the new testament alone i just don't i don't understand how you can come to this church for 56:29.600 --> 56:34.240 seven years or six years or whatever and then come out with that kind of mentality 56:35.040 --> 56:40.480 were you just not paying attention the whole time or something how is it that you could just let one 56:40.480 --> 56:48.320 of these diviners tell you something and then you just follow it like a sucker i i mean i just it 56:48.320 --> 56:56.160 blows my mind it really does but why these men have to die because curiosity killed the cat 56:57.120 --> 57:03.440 people just have to look into stuff oh some things are not your business to look into 57:03.440 --> 57:08.480 like this ark it's not your business to open up the ark and look at it if you're not 57:08.480 --> 57:16.640 if your name is not coethite if you're not son of coeth then don't look inside actually actually 57:16.640 --> 57:21.680 they weren't even supposed to look inside if you're not erin or his sons don't look inside and 57:21.680 --> 57:26.400 and they're all dead by now so the only person that can look inside i think is even is maybe 57:26.960 --> 57:33.440 samuel at this point i don't even know if he could but they all die thinking they could just 57:33.440 --> 57:38.480 go up and look inside willy-nilly and you know maybe this is where indiana jones got the idea 57:39.600 --> 57:47.440 you know you know oh they're beautiful you know just this is how i imagine the people at bash 57:47.920 --> 57:52.400 that they just melt like snails or something but i've just watched the movie apparently 57:52.400 --> 57:56.720 i don't know but what should they have done well how about maybe know what the bible says about 57:56.720 --> 58:01.040 it before you start touching things that you shouldn't touch and getting you know and and 58:01.040 --> 58:06.640 getting to matters that are too high for you you know they're just it's just not your it's not your 58:06.640 --> 58:14.480 place it's not your purpose maybe you should just find out what you should do and you know maybe if 58:14.720 --> 58:18.160 levi's would have actually known the bible aren't they aren't they the ones that are supposed to be 58:18.160 --> 58:21.760 teaching priests or they're the ones that are supposed to be teaching the people and they don't 58:21.760 --> 58:27.280 even know what they're supposed to do with the ark i mean this is simple this is this is bible 101 58:27.280 --> 58:32.160 i think any pretty much any person in this church hopefully would know at least some of the things 58:32.160 --> 58:38.400 about the old testament that you would know hey i don't you don't touch the ark i mean it's pretty 58:38.400 --> 58:44.080 serious but when the when the leadership won't warn the people because they don't know what they're 58:44.080 --> 58:48.560 talking about then again the blind is leading the blind and they all shall fall in a ditch 58:48.560 --> 58:53.360 and this is what jesus said at the time when the pharisees were kind of ruling over the pharisees 58:53.360 --> 59:00.080 weren't even levi's the pharisees weren't even the high priest why were they ruling over the people 59:00.080 --> 59:06.320 why did they sit in moses seat because they didn't know the bible the people didn't know the bible 59:06.320 --> 59:12.080 why did they crucify jesus because they didn't know the bible they didn't know the time of his 59:12.080 --> 59:17.440 coming they didn't understand what was going on or they just didn't want to understand but they were 59:17.440 --> 59:23.120 easily led i mean one minute they're saying hosanna hosanna in the highest and you know they're putting 59:23.120 --> 59:26.960 down the palm branches and and calling him the son of david and then a few days later they're 59:26.960 --> 59:32.640 saying crucify him you know his blood be upon us and upon our children how can you change that fast 59:33.200 --> 59:39.760 how can you how can you like be uh just lauding jesus christ coming into your city and then you're 59:39.760 --> 59:43.920 screaming crucify in the next minute how is this possible because the people didn't know the word 59:43.920 --> 59:50.800 of god and look this is a good lesson for us we need to know what the word of god says and so when 59:50.800 --> 59:55.920 matters of controversy or things like this happen we know what we're supposed to do we know what is 59:55.920 --> 01:00:04.800 right and the ark of god was lost because ultimately because of the wicked and loose way 01:00:04.880 --> 01:00:10.400 that elai ran things not this like elai the different elai all right so the elai in the bible 01:00:11.040 --> 01:00:16.800 he he gets prophesied that his line is going to end and again that happens in the time of 01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:22.240 solomon where the full fulfillment happens but what's he doing he's kicking back blind 01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:28.080 he's not even really kind of fit to lead anymore god's already said he's he's going to be 01:00:28.080 --> 01:00:32.320 turned you know he after after that it's going to be over it's going to his line is going to be cut 01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:36.160 and hafai and phineas are reprobates that he is allowed to stay in the priesthood 01:00:36.880 --> 01:00:41.520 they're the ones that are where their ark is they come get the ark they go out with the ark 01:00:41.520 --> 01:00:44.880 they're so dumb they're just like hey yeah we'll just go out to the battle who 01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:50.880 like god doesn't want to kill us or anything and then they get killed so elai's poor leadership 01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:57.040 gets you know all these people killed in the battle that happens the ark gets taken then the 01:00:57.040 --> 01:01:03.600 ark plagues the philistines for seven months and then it kills 50,070 beshamites because it's just 01:01:03.600 --> 01:01:09.040 a succession of not knowing what you're supposed to do and not knowing the bible not knowing what 01:01:09.040 --> 01:01:15.360 god expects of you and look for god's people there's no excuse and that's why i believe that he 01:01:16.080 --> 01:01:22.400 allowed 50,000 people to die because and why he didn't kill the philistines they're not really 01:01:23.120 --> 01:01:28.960 as responsible are they it's the one that know his will and know what to do or at least know 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:34.000 what god expects somewhat and they don't do those things god's going to hold those people 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:39.760 more responsible they're going to get chastised way worse than the people that don't know any better 01:01:40.880 --> 01:01:51.120 right so he's not interested in your new kart christianity he's not he's not interested in your 01:01:51.120 --> 01:01:56.880 cheapened worship music or your fake altar calls or your phony evangelistic ray comfort methods 01:01:56.880 --> 01:02:01.920 that don't get anybody mad but don't get anybody saved either you know when are you going to repent 01:02:01.920 --> 01:02:06.160 oh that's that's the gospel when are you going to repent like they're like what are you talking 01:02:06.160 --> 01:02:13.840 about and you know he doesn't know what he's talking about he's like a jew worshiping calvinist or 01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:20.480 something anyway god doesn't care about your purple lights or your plexi class pulpits or your drum 01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:28.320 sets or your starbucks at the back of the church foyer with your atm's and your mission scams and 01:02:28.320 --> 01:02:34.880 your fake missions trips and your false bible versions that cheapen and remove core doctrine 01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:45.360 from the bible and you know it removes words like hell damnation bastard whore piss sodomites harlot 01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:53.120 whoremonger drunkard fornication adulterer these move these words are all removed out of the modern 01:02:53.120 --> 01:03:03.120 versions all of them why to soften it down what wasn't 50 000 it was 70 000 or 70 i mean not even 01:03:03.120 --> 01:03:09.520 70 000 it wasn't 50 000 it was 70 see they just want to blunt everything down they just want to 01:03:09.520 --> 01:03:12.960 dial it all down and they just want to dial the words down too 01:03:15.520 --> 01:03:19.600 they probably put tinkle he that tinkleeth against the wall or something 01:03:19.600 --> 01:03:28.000 the stinking softies instead of whore they'll put like you know promiscuous woman 01:03:30.080 --> 01:03:35.360 instead of adulterer an affair they had an affair or whatever but they like to they like to dumb 01:03:35.360 --> 01:03:40.720 down the language so that it doesn't hit it's hard because there's a difference between called 01:03:40.720 --> 01:03:46.240 being called a bastard and be called you're you know you're an illegitimate child you know it's 01:03:46.240 --> 01:03:54.720 just now look i mean and then then replacing hell with words that aren't even you know that are just 01:03:55.520 --> 01:04:00.640 the hebrew words or the greek words but they're supposed to be translated into the english words 01:04:00.640 --> 01:04:07.600 which we know as hell you know nobody knows what shield is i mean i'll just always remember that 01:04:07.600 --> 01:04:12.640 part where they they asked that black guy in the in the mart of what is it the new world order 01:04:12.640 --> 01:04:18.880 bible versions he goes shield isn't that like a shield like you they don't people don't know what 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:25.200 that is it's you're going to go to gehenna like it sounds like a place for people to go to drink 01:04:25.200 --> 01:04:35.200 wine or something but it doesn't you know what what hits harder hell the lake of fire those types 01:04:35.200 --> 01:04:43.200 of things hit harder you're a drunkard no i just have a little bit of a problem it's a disease 01:04:44.960 --> 01:04:47.920 that's what people say it's a disease i can't help it 01:04:50.080 --> 01:04:54.640 jeremiah 6 16 says thus saith the lord standing in the ways and see and ask for the old past 01:04:54.640 --> 01:05:00.640 where is the good way and walk there in this is what god expects from us not to go and make a new 01:05:00.640 --> 01:05:06.960 cart not to go and make some new style of christianity oh god just you're just too too worried about the 01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:11.760 do's and don'ts you know i mean there are things that are people just take too far i get that 01:05:12.320 --> 01:05:17.120 and they're too much letter of the law i understand that and yes there's the spirit of the law i 01:05:17.120 --> 01:05:21.600 understand that too but just because there's the spirit of the law in the new testament doesn't 01:05:21.600 --> 01:05:29.120 mean you throw all the rules out too because obviously god felt pretty strongly about this 01:05:29.120 --> 01:05:36.000 situation didn't he and first amos 6 21 says and they sent messengers to the inhabitants 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:39.920 of kurjath jureem saying the philistines have brought again the ark of the lord 01:05:39.920 --> 01:05:46.960 calm you down and fetch it up to you hot potato i mean so they're just literally just passing it 01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:52.160 onto their neighbors like this is so messed up like i don't know i just i just find it just 01:05:52.960 --> 01:06:00.160 you know they're passing the buck again don't worry the ark's fine just don't look inside 01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:05.440 i mean i'm sure people have had to have heard of it i had some other verses i want to share 01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:12.000 with you but i know i got to be done so let's just read one last verse okay together go to amos chapter 01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:20.480 one amos chapter one i know it's i'm going late elia took a long time to read that chapter so 01:06:23.120 --> 01:06:24.560 he was stalling for time no 01:06:28.880 --> 01:06:32.800 but what is the end of the philistines when they they should have repented and they should have 01:06:32.800 --> 01:06:38.160 turned towards god when they saw all these things happen in their lives right look what amos 1 6 01:06:38.720 --> 01:06:44.560 this is what happens to them thus saith the lord for three transgressions of gaza and for four i 01:06:44.560 --> 01:06:49.120 will not turn away the punishment thereof because they carried away captive the whole captivity 01:06:49.120 --> 01:06:55.520 to deliver them up to eat them but i will send a fire on the wall of gaza which shall devour the 01:06:55.520 --> 01:07:00.560 plate the palaces thereof and i will cut off the inhabitant from ashdod and him that holdeth the 01:07:00.560 --> 01:07:06.080 scepter from ashkalon and i will turn mine hand against echaron and the remnant of the philistine 01:07:06.080 --> 01:07:12.480 shall perish saith the lord god so what's the end of the philistines there they don't exist anymore 01:07:13.200 --> 01:07:18.000 that's what happened to them and i think that like even when they tried to look for them in history 01:07:18.000 --> 01:07:21.440 they didn't believe that they were a real people when the bible said that they were but then they 01:07:21.440 --> 01:07:25.520 finally found stuff you know that was written about them or whatever that's kind of what i think that 01:07:25.520 --> 01:07:32.160 happened with the phoenicians and other and the hittites those types of people but they just never 01:07:32.160 --> 01:07:35.840 want to believe it because they always want to just doubt the bible just like they want to doubt 01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:41.600 that 50 000 people got killed one day well god doesn't play you know there's certain things that 01:07:41.600 --> 01:07:47.600 he takes really serious and apparently that was one of them at that time the bible says behold the 01:07:47.600 --> 01:07:54.080 nations are as a drop of the bucket and are counted as small as the small dust of the balance behold 01:07:54.080 --> 01:08:01.120 it taketh up the aisles is a very little thing psalm 9 verse 17 says the wicked shall be turned 01:08:01.120 --> 01:08:08.960 into hell and all the nations that forget god you know we sang psalm 117 is our song of the week 01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:13.360 and it says praise the lord all you nations praise the lord all you people 01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:22.400 so when people forget the lord though he forgets them that's just how it works and the philistines 01:08:22.400 --> 01:08:28.400 had seven months to figure things out and what was there in to be wiped off the face of the earth 01:08:28.400 --> 01:08:32.560 i'm sure there was a remnant but the philistines are no longer people 01:08:33.840 --> 01:08:39.920 so it's a it's a hard lesson to learn you know god is not playing around you know he he does his 01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:46.560 his long suffering is long his mercy endures forever but there are things that he doesn't 01:08:47.120 --> 01:08:53.760 that he does end up his long suffering ends his mercy does have an end when it comes to the unsaved 01:08:54.320 --> 01:09:00.720 and you know he's not going to just allow people to keep continuing to torture god's people and do 01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:04.800 all these things and get away with it so let's pray lord we thank you so much for the bible we 01:09:04.800 --> 01:09:11.040 thank you for the fact that lord that you've saved us and and most of the people in this room are 01:09:11.040 --> 01:09:15.760 saved and if they're not hopefully they're on their way pray lord that you'd help us to just 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:21.440 remember how important it is that we know the bible ourselves we know what it says and that we 01:09:21.440 --> 01:09:28.000 wouldn't just try to run after some kind of wishy-washy form of christianity but lord that 01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:32.400 we would always stand true to the things of the of fundamental the fundamentals of the faith 01:09:32.960 --> 01:09:36.640 and the fundamentals of the bible and lord that we worship you in spirit and truth in 01:09:36.640 --> 01:09:45.760 jesus name we pray amen all right we'll close with song 406 01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:52.080 406 who's on the lord side and the red or the green 01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:10.080 all together on the first 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:28.640 queen 01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:35.640 Who will leave the roadside? 01:10:35.640 --> 01:10:40.640 Who will face the fall? 01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:45.640 Who is on the Lord's side? 01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:51.640 Who for Him will go? 01:10:51.640 --> 01:10:57.640 By thy call of mercy, 01:10:57.640 --> 01:11:02.640 By thy grace divine. 01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:08.640 We are on the Lord's side, 01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:14.640 Savior, we are thine. 01:11:14.640 --> 01:11:20.640 Not for weight of glory, 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:25.640 Not for crown and home, 01:11:25.640 --> 01:11:31.640 Enter we the army, 01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:37.640 Raise the warrior's arm. 01:11:37.640 --> 01:11:43.640 But for the path claimeth, 01:11:43.640 --> 01:11:49.640 Lies for whom He died. 01:11:49.640 --> 01:11:53.640 He whom Jesus nameeth, 01:11:53.640 --> 01:12:00.640 Must be on His side. 01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:06.640 By thy love constraining, 01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:11.640 By thy grace divine. 01:12:11.640 --> 01:12:17.640 We are on the Lord's side, 01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:23.640 Savior, we are thine. 01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:29.640 Jesus thou hast taught us, 01:12:29.640 --> 01:12:35.640 Not with gold or gem, 01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:41.640 But with thine own life-pride, 01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:46.640 For thy diadem. 01:12:46.640 --> 01:12:52.640 With thy blessing filling, 01:12:52.640 --> 01:12:58.640 Each who comes to thee. 01:12:58.640 --> 01:13:02.640 Thou hast made us willing, 01:13:02.640 --> 01:13:09.640 Thou hast made us free. 01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:15.640 By thy grand redemption, 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:21.640 By thy grace divine. 01:13:21.640 --> 01:13:26.640 We are on the Lord's side, 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:31.640 Savior, we are thine. 01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:34.640 And the last fierce fight, 01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:38.640 In the conflict, 01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:44.640 Strong may be the foe, 01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:50.640 But the King's own army, 01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:55.640 None can overthrow. 01:13:55.640 --> 01:14:01.640 Round His standard ranging, 01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:07.640 Victory is secure. 01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:11.640 For as truth of changing, 01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:18.640 Makes the triumph show. 01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:24.640 Joyfully and blesting, 01:14:24.640 --> 01:14:29.640 By thy grace divine. 01:14:29.640 --> 01:14:35.640 We are on the Lord's side, 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:40.640 Savior, we are thine.