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Thank you. This is What's Right, What's Left with Pastor Ernie Sanders? Good evening, and welcome to another edition of What's Right, What's Left: The Voice of the Christian Resistance. on this twentieth day of September. twenty twenty six and uh tonight My producer is Mighty Mike.
Hey, Mighty Mike. Hey, Pastor. Ready to roll? Yes, I am. And uh the title of this message tonight is Your Unintentional Enemy.
And the beginning of wisdom. That's your unintentional enemy. And the beginning of wisdom. Nope. There are those That are neither.
For God or against Him. that neither love him nor hate him, that are totally indifferent towards him, in acts and it works. Yet for appearance's sake, often uh they will sometimes Attend church? Or They'll bow their head when prayer is being offered up at at different times, especially at funerals. Or when sometimes when people say Grace.
Um Here. If you've noticed when the House and the Senate comes together, They have a total disregard and disrespect for God's Word, the Bible, and the way that God does things. When they. Offer of and prayer and He tells you in Isaiah chapter 66, verse 4, you know, verses 1 through 4. How they go through the motions But their heart's not in it.
And if you've ever watched them Like I said, they they have total disregard for what the the Bible teaches. Often they'll have women pastors which which the Bible expressly uh teaches against women pastors. Women are not to be pastors. And you see I I don't care what our society says. Uh you know, God doesn't care what society says either, okay?
And but they'll often have women pastors, and then you'll notice when Uh they never They never close their prayers or say in the name of Jesus, Lord Jesus. It's always it'll be God.
Okay. And uh they kinda give generic prayers. But if you'll notice If you watch this those in the Senate, Or the the house, esp es especially the house. When they're praying Uh A lot of people aren't bowing their heads. They're Some were whispering, talking, paying no attention.
Uh they're they're just going through the motion. Oh okay. No respect for God. Um I want to turn over to Revelation chapter 3 for a minute. And In Revelation chapter 3 Uh And birds.
I'll get there in a minute. Pages are cooperating with me here tonight, folks. Versus Uh Fifteen through seventeen. I know thy works. That thou art neither cold nor hot.
I would, then, not that were cold or hot.
So Then because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, I would spoothy out of my mouth. Because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked, Boy, does that really apply to the Prosperity Church, the Word of Faith movement, but all your A lot of you make it churches. There were They're neither hot nor cold. They believe that, uh, you know, that all the The wealth and prosperity they have is because they deserve it. And so here Uh I want to go on to say that I believe that there's.
out there between probably 10 or 15 percent of those in the country, and I'm talking about the citizens. That uh that love God. I would say ten to fifteen percent. I mean, that's that's my guess, like estimate. And I would say that there's about the same amount, 10 to 15 percent, that really hate God.
All of those in the Dethocratic Communist uh movement, all of those out there, they hate God, they love death. That's a fact, that's what the The Bible says all of those that hate God love death.
Okay. And so That leaves you seventy to eighty percent of those that are Lukewarm. And now, these are the ones that we talked about: your unintentional enemies. And these are those that that, you know, don't necessarily I mean to cause you any harm, but bibbi being biblically illiterate Um and total disregard for God Meaning that uh They're unthankful? And selfish.
Buddy. They're the ones that would say, you know Come on, man You go to church every single Sunday. Let's let's take off and Let's go do a bo a football game. You don't you don't have to go or let's go Let's take off and and uh go to a concert to day. You know, you g you you do enough church stuff.
You don't have to do that every d week. Or those are the ones that Well, we'll tell you. You know. Every day after work you you head straight home. You go right home and you do the same thing.
You go home, you eat dinner, you watch television, you go to sleep. You know, not everybody does that. You ought to learn how to how to live. You know, Come on, Stuck, come with the rest of us. Stop at a bar.
Let's go. Uh let's go and hit some bars tonight and uh That's kinda live, right? Or Today what they call Uh hot wives and open marriages are very, very prevalent. And it's being done cheating and marriage. By the way, The second shortest verse in all of Scripture is God hates divorce.
God hates divorce.
Well, right now Literally more divorces than marriages. And a lot of people are no longer getting married, they're they're shacking up. They're committing adultery. They don't realize that because they're biblically illiterate. They don't really have.
any respect for God. And um Bob would tell you. The the fool. Has said in his heart, There is no God. The beginning of wisdom.
The beginning of wisdom. is the fear of God. And tho those are the ones that are talking about You know going out to clubbing. What they're doing nowadays it's it's about clubs. They like to they're going they call it going clubbing.
And they do it. Men go out there and looking for women and uh and women going out there looking for men. And I'm talking about people that are married. And this is something that they call open marriages. And they're they're telling people That Open marriage is free and It actually brings people closer together.
Well, actually, folks. Um the the latest stats that I saw That ninety-four per cent of open marriages Ninety-four percent of open marriages last less than four years.
Okay. It's not really not really bringing people together, is it? No, I wouldn't say so. And You have a tendency the men have more of a tendency to go up by themselves. hunting for women, but women do it.
Uh, they like to do it in their their little groups. Um, they're they're going out there, they have what they call girls' nights outs, and they actually today have what they call cheaters' clubs. Cheaters' clubs where They're clubs that are meant for people who want to cheat on their spouses.
So There when you go there, everybody there is married to somebody else and, um, But women have a tendency And I never could figure that out. It's just like. A lot of times when, you know, you're on a restaurant or some place Yeah. and one of them will say, Uh let's go to the bathroom. And and two or three of'em would go to the to the to the bathroom together and I never could understand that, but I'm not sure I want to either.
But anyhow, but they have a tendency to do the same thing. When it comes to cheating, Uh, they they do it in groups, you know. And so That is what's happened.
Now from Genesis to Revelations from Genesis to Revelation. The one thing Like God's word the Bible demands. more than anything else the one thing that demands more than anything else is Obedience.
So tonight we're going to start over in uh Proverbs chapter nine. The wisdom have buildeth her house she hath hewn out her seven pillars, and she hath killed her beast, And she hath mingled her wine and hath furnished her table.
Now, wisdom here in Proverbs. uh is described As a virtuous kinswoman, a very wise in a virtuous kinswoman. And here she shows you that wisdom, what she is doing is she is. Preparing yourself now. The seven pillars the seven is the number for Perfection She is building her house with perfection.
And she has uh mingled her wine and she has furnished her table. Then she has sent forth her maidens, Now Uh her maidens are out and crieth upon the highest places of the city.
So her maidens have gone out to invite people to their dinner, to invite people to their dinner. And so Now this is in contrast. This is in contrast here. To Proverbs chapter seven Here you have a virtuous kinswoman, but in Proverbs seven Uh let me just go over there for a minute. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments and live Am I law as the apple of thine eye? Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. See, again, it goes into. uh obedience, you know, a gun. Obedience, obedience, obedience.
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister And call understanding thy kinswoman. Then they may keep thee from the strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words so Here And in Proverbs 7, they're talking about a woman's house. It's a whore's house. He goes on. Uh it says Well For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones I discerned among the youth, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the streets near the Corner and it went the way to her house, in the twilight and the evening and in the black and dark night.
and behold there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot. and subtle of heart, She is loud and stubborn. Her feet abide not in her house, Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.
So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, I have peace offerings with me. This day have I played paid my vows. Therefore I came forth to meet thee and diligently to work thy face. And I have found thee I have decked my bed with coverings, and tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh.
and aloes and cinnamon. Come, let us take our For a fill of love. Until the morning, let us solace ourselves with love For the good man is not at home, He is gone on a journey. He hath taken a bag of money with him and will come home in the day appointed, and so here The the contrast there is between the two now The woman who's a whore, the whorehouse is more like so many out there, especially amongst the younger generations today. With this hot wife thing, with this open marriage thing, Uh what else does it Another one that I I can't think of it that's becoming real popular out there.
Well, I I know I mentioned Going clubbing. Going clubbing. out there today. of which is virtually Going out to find People to cheat with. And so Going back to where we left off and Proverbs nine Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither.
As for him that wanted understanding, She saith to him.
So now it's the difference between the simpleton here and the simpleton in Proverbs 7. Uh in both cases they're people without n a lot of knowledge And In Proverbs seven it s it's a young man who hasn't had much worldly experience, And Okay. usually their mothers warn them to stay away from strange women, But in this case here, It's a young man. But wisdom uh is going to uh teach the young man Yeah. Come eat of my bread and drink of my wine, which I have mingled.
Forsake the foolish and live. and go in the way of understanding, so And she's telling him, Okay, uh to be in compliance with God's laws. He that reproveth his quarter, getting to himself shame. And he that rebuketh the wicked Man can get himself a block. In other words, a a scoffer he's referring to reprove not a scorner.
lest he hate thee, rebuke a wise man, And he will love thee, in other words, so. What he's saying is that the scorner uh An unsaved a heathen type man was is not likely to take advice And if you try to He's saying reprove him, he's going to rebil. But a wise man will love thee for doing that, for reproving him. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser. Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Wow. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And knowledge of the holy Is understanding.
So here again, the fear of the Lord.
Now we're talking about a reverential fear. A reverential fear a Yeah. The one thing Then Men have that men men do not like to be disrespected.
Well, nobody likes to be disrespected, but I've done a lot of marriage constantly and in those cases so many times when there's a dispute it's because He always says, She doesn't respect me She doesn't respect me And uh the wife will always say, Well, he doesn't love me, okay? And uh men don't like men don't like to be disrespected and Uh if the woman says oh What's wrong? Is your pride or your ego getting in your way? And then You know, that's that's being disrespectful. Then The men will always say What are you having?
Is it is it that time of month again? Uh you know, because women where they get attacked is in the area of discernment. And sometimes uh Uh They can They can seem pretty silly and and Um It's hard to understand. For men. when they become emotional.
So uh, because they act w more in emotion and men act the other way, but Uh again Men don't Uh You know, men don't like to seriously be disrespected and women don't like to be Uh Treated without you know showing intention and affection. And the problem with people is That uh Here Uh yeah. God tells gives you th the answer, the remedy for all that. I've been married now for fifty seven years. Fifty seven years.
He said, You only have to work at marriage from the first day to the last. And uh You know what, if you use God's Word... as a marriage manual, it'll work out pretty good for you. And so here He says. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
For by me the days will be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. If thou be wise, thou should be wise for thyself. but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Now here Uh, the all those instructions that comes from God Uh And and especially A wise man will have a reverential fear of God. And And again God's not mocked. And he does not like to be disrespected. Yeah. And boy, that's exactly what's happening to you know, the people today in this country.
When it comes to God, they're not taking God seriously. And that's not going to end well for'em. He tells you this in in chapter eight, verse thirty six. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul. D'ye hear that?
He that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul. All they that hate me love death. Folks Those people out there That that New York state legislature that passed The bill killing a baby to the time of birth. They hate God. They hate God.
That's why they were celebrating. They were celebrating killing the babies. Sacrificing Children Same thing in Massachusetts. Uh the same thing that want to do in New Jersey now and Virginia. No.
And especially California. It's even worse than California. They they celebrate killing a baby until twenty eight days after he's born. I mean, that's pure evil. That is pure evil.
And so here again But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own So And all they that hate me love death. And so I want to go over now to Job chapter 2. And in Job chapter two. I want to read verses one through. Uh thirteen.
Again, there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord. And Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.
Now, Here It moves back off the the uh for the previous chapter from on the earth back down to heaven.
So This is taking place in heaven, but not in the third heaven. Because in the third heaven, Satan would defile it. Satan would not be allowed in the third heaven. He would defile the third heaven. And but now he's coming.
And he's to make another offer here. Um And His second accusation. uh against Job is even more insidious than his his first. Uh Let's read. And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou?
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, from going to and fro in the earth and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? That there is none like him in the earth. A perfect and an upright man, One that feareth God, and escheweth evil And still he holdeth fast his integrity, Although thou movest me against him to destroy him without cause.
Now, Here Only. First of all. God knew where Satan was, and this whole show is taking place amongst the Uh huge numbers of angels. Huge numbers of angels are watching us.
Now remember. Satan had I convinced one third of those angels Uh to follow him. And that didn't end well for them.
So now he's back. And he's challenging God once again. The pot is challenging the potter. And so God knew exactly where he was. God knew that he was coming, and God knew ahead of time.
Because all knowledge, past, present and future, is contained in God. And he knew exactly what false accusation he was going to make.
So you remember prior to that Satan said, Look. You know, you make it very, very hard for me to tempt Job. I mean, look at you've you've made the man so rich. Job and Abraham were contemporaries. They were there at the same time, and both were very, very wealthy.
But Job was described as the wealthiest man of the East. And so Here Satan says, You know, the guy's got hooked. How can I tempt him with anything? He he has everything. But you take away all of what he has.
I'm telling you, you take away all his wealth and he'll curse you to your face. All dances, really? Let's see.
So God allowed Satan to take away Job's f even his children, his family, his all his his sheep and his cattle and everything. Oh, it's well. And and so And still Joe. Refru refused. To curse God.
He still humbled himself to, he still had. Reverential Fear of the Lord. Mm-hmm.
So he goes on to say And Satan answered the Lord and Said skin for skin, yea All that a man hath will he give for his life.
Now, do you know what here's what what Satan is saying? Look. When it comes down to his own skin. To his own life. These men, they'll They'll throw They'll throw anybody in front of the bus before they'll take it.
They'll They'll turn on you, they'll push. Put you in front of'em. Um They won't sacrifice themselves. They'll sacrifice you to save themselves. No, if that were true, we wouldn't even be here to day.
Look at the greatest sacrifice we have is the Lord Jesus Himself. He placed himself on that cross. He didn't have to do that. Oh. What a sacrifice he made.
But down through history. You have all the heroes of the faith, the heroes of the faith. that laid their lives down protecting others. Our nation has a rich history. The founding fathers.
The Black Robe Regiment All through the history of the wars in this country. We're good people. Ready and prepared to lay their life down. For others, and they did that. And today?
Many of us are still right there.
Well, we would in a heartbeat be willing to lay our life down. For others. And That may happened. Because the spread of communism People better take very, very real, they better think about this very real. They don't understand.
Communism is communism. And it would work the very same way it did in China and in Russia and North Korea. Communism, the ultimate end for communism is death. Killing multitudes of people. And I can tell you without a doubt Without a doubt.
If Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and those people Could wipe out every Christian in this country, they would do it in a heartbeat. But as long as our founding fathers had the wisdom. had the wisdom that they got directly from the Bible. Where the Lord Jesus told him to sell your garment and arm yourself, get a sword, get a weapon, be ready to Defend each other and yourself. And that's where they got that, and that's where we have a second amendment to be ready to prepare.
To defend ourselves against corruption against today against what we call Deathocrats. and radical Islam. And so Er. He goes on. And so and But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to the face.
So Satan's telling God, yeah Touch his bone, take away his health, and see what happens, see? How faithful He is to you, Lord. And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand, but save his life. The Lord gave Satan the permission. Two to bring a harsh Uh Effects on Job and But the Lord made it very clear.
See, God has numerous ways of of punishment and judgment, and Satan knew that. Satan, who professed to be as God, as high and mighty, he knew unto he. understood no he wasn't like God. And at any time Uh God could could totally make him disappear completely. When God was using him For his reasons to show you What kind of a man Joe really was.
So it's Satan forth from the presence of the Lord and Smoke Joe was was sore boils. from the sole of his foot until the crown of his head. That had to be very painful, and it took him a poshtard to scrape himself withal. and sat down among the ashes.
So Here, that was a piece of plastic, a piece of a broken ceramic like Pottery, like pottery. Then said His wife into him. Dost thou still retain thy integrity, Curse God and die. There there you go. That is an One of the things that that that she was telling him Jove, your pride You've got that pride there.
Just just give in. Give up Nope. His wife here Well, she was much more concerned about her own feelings than she was Joe's. To curse God doesn't end well for you. And so but any time We we see throughout the Bible that men choose to listen to their wives instead of to God, It it never ended well at all.
Starting with Adam and Eve. Yeah, uh God made Adam before Eve, he put Adam in charge of Eve. And Adam was new Uh God spoke to Adam, told him about the trees in the garden, And Adam's job was to pass that on T. And when uh Adam had the ability. When Satan showed up in the garden, Adam had the ability to take his head off.
Adam did not. He listened to his wife and not God. And then, on top of that, what did he do? He turned around and said, Told God.
Well, you know, I was doing good. I was all right. I wouldn't I d't tell you what and give me that woman, God. I mean, you know, I named all those animals, the hippopotamus and the wolves and the lions and tigers and bears. I was doing good, and you gave me that woman.
So he tried to blame God. Right? It was Adam that didn't listen. Then Neave, what did she do? But she said the Devil made me do it.
The devil made me do it. And so Here or no? Job said, But he said unto her, thou speakest as one of the foolish women, Speaketh the What shall we receive good and The hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Did Job not sin with his lips? When you had Abraham when he listened to Sarah instead of God.
Right now, that's why we have a war in Iran right now. That's why we're at war in Iran right now. But then Oh, they have. Ahab was supposed to be the king of Israel He was supposed to be listening to the prophets. He was supposed to be listening to God, but what did he do?
He listened to Jezebel. And he started following after Baal worship. And attending Jezebel's table where they had orgies. And that didn't end well for either him or Jezebel. See From Genesis to Revelation, the one thing that God demands more than anything else again, folks.
is obedience. And God demands God demands reverential Fear. If we turn over to First Samuel. And First Samuel Chapter twelve. Versus 14-25.
If ye will fear the Lord And serve him. and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, Then shall ye both You and also the king that reigneth over you continue following your lord your God. Here, what happened? The people had just went to Samuel and said, Look, You know, we want A king Like the heathen have. We want a king like the heathen have.
Now, you see, there wasn't any king in the world that could do what God does. If they were obedient to God, they would have they would have never lose a battle to their enemies. If they were obedient with God, They would never go hungry for food or want of food. If they were obedient for God, They would never be devastated by plagues or sickness, All they had to do was obey God, and life would have been very good. But they didn't want that, you see.
They wanted a king A man who was like themselves. A man who Well had a tendency to sin, to be a sinner. They wanted a guy that understood this, that there's Uh pleasure there's p pleasure in in sin. It wasn't so strict. you know, that they didn't have to live in of such a good li a clean life They wanted someone who understood and uh would allow them And uh would Would compromise.
And um Allow them to Wow. to, you know, to have it go their way and Oh. Living live in sin. And so here When they want to Samuel and they said, Look. You know, we want a king uh a a man and And Samuel goes to God and says, They've rejected me And God says, No, they rejected me, Samuel, it's me they're rejecting.
And um God wasn't happy about that.
So See, God's got a way First of all, God is a very, very merciful God. He'll never, ever punish you more than you need to be punished, more than you deserve. If anything, he always shows mercy. He goes on to say But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord. Then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
Now therefore stand and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.
Well, you see, In those days, I mean at at the time the day of harvest, it never it was it was almost unheard of for it to be raining. They always picked the days of harvest where it was going to be a good, long, dry day. No, it had to be. If it rained on the day of harvest, that means there was going to be a shortage of food. And some people are gonna go hungry.
Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call unto the Lord, and He shall send thunder and rain, that you may perceive and see Your wickedness is great. Which you have done in the sight of the Lord, asking you a king, in other words. Showing complete disrespect. Yeah.
And dishonor to God. No reverential Beer there. God does not, you know, if we people don't like to be. The only one That Unconditionally deserves our respect as our Creator.
So Samuel called unto the LORD, and the LORD whipp sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared the LORD, and Samuel, And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not for we have added unto all our sins this evil to ask for a king.
So now there's this scene here Again.
Okay. There was no Uh Feelings there that that they had disrespected their God. They weren't feeling bad. For what they had done they were feeling bad because they were being punished for what they had done. And the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants and to thy Lord God.
That we die not. For we have added unto all our sins this This evil that we ask for a king. And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not, you have done all this wickedness. Yet turn not aside from the following of the horde, But serve the LORD with all your heart. And turn you not aside.
For then should you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver For they are vain. And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great namesake, because he hath placed the Lord to make you his people.
Now, Remember When God came down from the mountain, When Moses came down and found that Aaron had made a golden cap in the people, were uh living in total disrespect in total rebellion against him and their their sin. As they it says when they played, that means they were having orgies and sacrificing their children. And so God said To Moses, maybe I'll just wipe em all out wipe em all out.
Well, God knew exactly w what Moses' response would be, and Moses said, Well, no, you Lord, if you do that uh Then that won't all the nations say That you wiped your people out because You couldn't do what you said. You said you would preserve. You would you would preserve. Here are your people, your branch. And people will will will say, Well, you see, God couldn't do what He said He'd do.
Now God knew what Moses was doing, obviously. But He looked and he s he saw Moses's Concern It was for the people that didn't deserve mercy. But his his love of the people even as rebellious as they were. And so God did that. and spared them.
But he did bring some pretty horrendous plagues upon them. Yet turn not aside from the following the Lord. But serve the LORD with all your hearts. And so he goes on to say: Moreover, as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord, ceasing to pray for you, that I would teach you. you the good and right way.
Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all p' your heart, for consider how Greater things he hath done for you. But if ye shall still do wickedly, You be shall be consumed, both you and your king. I want to go over to a hundred and third psalm now. Uh in the hundred and third psalm We read this. Verses 10- 22.
He hath not dealt with us as after our. Our sins nor rewarded us As according to our iniquities.
Now, listen to what he's saying carefully here, because see, there's a message, a very clear message in here. For as As the heaven is high above the earth, So great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Now, what is he he's talking about, folks? How high are the heavens Where is the end to the heavens? The heavens are without an end. There's no end. to that.
So he he's talking about here For as high as heaven is high, Yeah. That this is Uh an absolute there is no end to How much higher heaven is than the earth When he talks about God's mercy, he says, showing you that there is no end. And to God's mercy. Toward them that fear him. And he's talking about.
Having reverential fear. Those that love the Lord, And they they fear him out of respect. An honor. They're not afraid of him just because They know he could hurt'em. There The fear is like like well When you're young.
And your parents? Chastise you.
Well You don't like to be chastised. But you don't hate your parents for giving to you What it what you deserve? Because down deep inside you know that they're doing it to you for your own good. And so here God chastises those that He loves and belongs to Him for their own good. He goes on to say.
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. How far is that?
Well, Folks, if you start heading east, How far will you have to go before you come to the west? You don't. You just you just keep going. You just keep going east and east and east and east, okay?
So there is no end to that.
So he's talking about then again, His mercy towards us and his love and the fact he says, As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions. From us, forgiving our sins when we repent. When we repent of our sin, God is Just and quick to forgive us our sins. A cat doesn't carry a grudge. I mean, you and me, there there's some things that a people could do to us that no matter how hard we would try, We could never forgive him.
W we couldn't. It just would be But God's not that way. He's not that way. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them. That fear him.
For he knoweth our frame, he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass as a Flower of the field, so he flourished For the wind passes over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall Know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, means there's no end to it, no end to it. Upon them that fear him and his righteousness and the children's children. To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his commandments, To do them.
The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all. Do you understand it? God has prepared a place for us throughout eternity, from everlasting to everlasting. God has done literally What? you know, so much of we we would consider impossible He is made for us for those that love him, those that fear him, those that are obedient to him.
Prepared us a place in glory. With life everlasting. Bless the Lord, you. His angels and excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening into the voice of his Lord. It doesn't say that well, Those angels that uh that do what they can do or obey what commandments he can, What he's telling you here is that the angels are very well prepared Uh I hear To do all, whatever it is, That God commands them to do, He has prepared them to do it.
Now, see, when you're talking about God, that's quite an accomplishment, folks. I mean, that's. That's a big deal. Bless you, the Lord. And all ye host.
Ye ministers of his that do his pleasure Bless the Lord in all his works. in all the places of his dominion. Bless the Lord, ho my soul.
Okay. I want to go over to Revelation chapter fifteen for a minute here. Yeah no. In Revelation chapter fifteen. Verses four through eight.
Who shall not fear thee? O Lord, and glorify thy name. For thou art holy, and all nations shall come and worship before thee, for the judgments are made manifest. And after that, I looked.
Well, when he says, after that, I looked and behold, you have to go over to verse 1 to see what he's talking about. And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, Seven angels having seven last plagues. For in them fill the wrath of God. And I saw as it were a sea of glass Mingle with fire, and and them that got had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and and over the number of his name. Folks, this is over These are those that what we call communism today, which is evil and death.
They stand in the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sang the song of Moses.
Well, the song of Moses, if you go back over to Exodus 15. This God is a man of war. He is a man our Lord is a man of war, okay? And so going back to verse five, and after that I looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle. And the testimony in heaven was open.
And the seven angels.
Now seven that number is seven. is the number for perfection. came out of the temple having the seventh place, clothed in pure and white linen, having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
Now These angels they come out in their white linen as priests now they're they become priests to offer up s a A sacrifice here And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven Golden Vales. Vials full of The wrath of God, the who lived forever and ever. You know, it that's an interesting thing. That phrase forever and ever occurs twenty-one times in the book of Revelation. Seventeen times, it's uniquely.
uh about the uniquely eternal nature of God. But three of those times Or four of those times actually. It talks it talks about Uh God's wrath, and that's what it's talking about right here. And of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden. Vales full of the wrath of God, and He liveth for ever and ever.
And the temple was filled with smoke. From the glory of God and from His power, and no man was able to enter into the temple. Till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. And I want to finish by going to Malachi chapter 3. And this is uh one of my most my favorite passages of Scripture.
Hello. Here in the Bible There are seven books. That um Are not of the 66 books of the canon, but they're mentioned in the 66 books, these seven books. Uh one of'em One of em is what we call here the the Book of Remembers. The other is a book of law.
One is the book of life, another is the book of living. Um I know there's a uh Is then Genesis chapter five, the the book of generation.
So there's seven other books altogether. mentioned here And this is one of'em. Verse uh Malachi chapter three verse sixteen. Then they That feared the LORD spake unto one another, And the LORD hearkened and heard it. And a book of remembrance was written before him, For them that feared the LORD and thought upon His name, That's what we're to do We're to think upon the Lord's name daily.
All the time, every day. Folks? God is completely conscious and cognite. What we do. He knows and I know it's hard to think a huck got to know everything, but he does.
He knows those that are thinking about him. He looks upon our hearts. And just like Wouldn't you like to have your children If you were some place knowing your children are at home and They're asking about how you're doing and They're talking about you and how much they love you. Wouldn't you like that?
Well, God likes to hear. His children Talk about him. Think about him. You see, he created us to do just that. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
In the day when I make up my jewels, I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then Shall you return and discern between the righteous and the wicked? Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Now here We find out about that, about the rewards of the Christ compared to the judgments. For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven And all the proud, yes, and all they that do wickedly shall be subtle. Stubble. And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts. that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name, Shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings? And you shall go forth and grow up as calves in the stall.
So people say, Wait a minute, Pastor. That sun is S U N Well Of course, that SUN there is the Lord Jesus. You say, why is it an SON?
Well, because That word there is referring to The ultimate light The ultimate light The ultimate power, the ultimate authority. And so And he says And unto you that fear of my name, till the Son of righteousness arise with healing in your wings, and you shall go forth and grow up as calves in his stall. And you shall tread down the wicked. For they shall be ashes unto the soles of your feet. For in that day I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
And so Folks. Here again, going back to where we started. Uh The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom And we have to be very, very cognizant, very, very uh Watch that we don't become complacent. Out there today.
And we gotta remember that the vast majority of people are not saved. Even those that You know, that that that that small percentage really love God, that small percentage really hate God, but the vast majority are totally indifferent. They don't even think much about God. At all. And that doesn't end well for them.
We need to think about God. We need to think about all of the blessings that He has given us. And if you have not called upon his name, if you have not professed your sin, If you are not saved to day, Well, it's kind of like standing on a spider's web over a burning lake of fire. Do it. Today, go to the Gospel of John chapter 3, read it, do it.
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