WEBVTT 00:00:02.240 --> 00:00:09.599 Welcome to Sharper Sword, the publication ministry of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California. 00:00:09.919 --> 00:00:16.480 Lighthouse believes that individuals can reach their potential for the Lord as they grow in Christ. 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:22.320 We want to hear our Lord say, Well done, thou good and faithful servant. 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:29.600 Let's join Pastor Doug Fisher as he preaches another important biblical message from the Word of God. 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:33.920 Let's take our Bibles tonight. 00:00:34.159 --> 00:00:35.439 I'll be a little shorter tonight. 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:38.399 Joshua 10 and Hebrews 3. 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:39.840 Good testimonies tonight. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.439 Joshua 10 and Hebrews chapter 3. 00:00:43.600 --> 00:00:45.920 I'll do a little bit more work for you tonight. 00:00:46.159 --> 00:00:52.799 You'll just listen in, and then we'll look at Joshua 10 and Hebrews 3 and be uh settled with that tonight. 00:00:53.039 --> 00:00:56.079 In Joshua 10, Hebrews 3, you're holding your place there. 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:58.719 The situation is uh simple. 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:02.320 It's not simple, it's complex, but it's simple to us. 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:07.439 Because we can read about it and study about it, but we need to apply it to our lives. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:16.000 When the uh 12 spies came back in the church in the wilderness, ten of the spies came back and they all reported uh the same thing. 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:19.280 They all reported that there was giants in the land. 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:24.079 And I wish they could take some time to talk about the strong cities and the giants. 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:31.519 Ten of the spies came back, and they were not, they were not convinced that they could conquer. 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:35.359 But remember, God had not made it for them to conquer. 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:37.920 He said, I'll drive them out. 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.000 I'll put my fear on them. 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:41.439 I'll do the work. 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:51.599 But those ten spies came back and they discouraged the hearts of the people, talking about the size and stature of these people and the great cities, you know. 00:01:51.760 --> 00:02:00.239 And the Bible says that God had already promised that he would send his fear and that he would drive them out little and little. 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:02.400 Now, I want to make this statement to you. 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:10.000 This coming year, we're gonna face something that causes us to be a little afraid. 00:02:10.319 --> 00:02:14.639 I don't know what it'll be, but something will cause us to fear a little bit. 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.319 Now, please listen to me. 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:20.479 There'll be a giant obstacle in our life sooner or later this year. 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:27.759 Sooner or later this year, walking by faith, something will come up that will appear to us very, very large. 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.759 But I want to tell you something, no obstacle is bigger than God. 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:37.199 Something will come up in our life this year, though, that will create this fear. 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.879 But really, the fear was based on something else. 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:43.439 The fear was based on unbelief. 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:57.039 What I'm saying to you is this they saw the giants and they feared the giants, but had they believed what God could do, that belief would have conquered that fear, and the fear would have caused them to drive forward. 00:02:57.360 --> 00:03:04.719 May I say to you, unbelief or an immaturity in our faith is going to produce some fear this year if we're not careful. 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:06.000 I want to say that again. 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.199 Brethren, faith has to keep growing. 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:12.319 Faith cannot just be stagnant. 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:17.039 If you stop swimming upstream, the current will push you back. 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.199 If you stop swimming against the world, the world will push you back. 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:27.840 Faith is a constant walk that pushes us and drives us forward against this world. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:29.120 Would you agree with that? 00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:31.199 Against our carnal nature. 00:03:31.360 --> 00:03:35.840 If we ever get something in our way and you say, what could get in our way, please listen. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:41.680 It's something that our mind gets wrapped around that we can't get rid of. 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:43.919 I'll say it again. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.439 It's something that our mind gets wrapped around. 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:58.879 And it just keeps getting wrapped around and coming up and coming up and coming up, and we try to get rid of it, and there it is again, and it just keeps coming up and it gets bigger. 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:02.159 Now don't tell me you haven't had something like that. 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:04.240 If you haven't yet, you will. 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:18.480 Your mind gets wrapped around something, something that's an obstacle in the way, and it just keeps wearing us down and wearing us down, and it produces some apprehension, it can produce some fear. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:19.519 Listen to me. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:24.399 It can produce anxiety, it can produce uh headaches. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:27.199 Come on, say amen right there. 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:32.879 It can produce sleepless nights, it can produce a lot of things. 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:34.800 You say, I don't have that. 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:43.759 Uh I'm not saying you have it tonight, but you might face something along the way this year that's bigger than you are, that's gigantic. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:50.560 And I just want to say to you tonight, what we need is increased faith in God's ability. 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:54.560 Because it wasn't the giants that really stopped them. 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:59.279 It was their belief or unbelief that God couldn't conquer them. 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:02.160 And God could conquer them. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:09.439 We know by the time they get the sp the spy, the two spies, goes to Rahab. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:18.560 All the fathers, all the women, all the mothers have been talking about the fear, the fear, the fear, the giants, the giants, the giants. 00:05:18.959 --> 00:05:24.079 It's ingrained in the culture, but praise the Lord, the children don't believe it. 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:25.279 What do you mean? 00:05:25.439 --> 00:05:28.319 The children, 20 years and below, don't believe it. 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:33.519 By the time they get old enough, they've decided to go past the fear of their fathers. 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.040 They've decided to go past the fear of their mothers. 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:41.439 They've decided not to listen to the 10 spies in their report. 00:05:41.680 --> 00:05:45.120 Brethren, as a church, we need to go forward this year. 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:48.079 As families, we need to go forward this year. 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:55.120 There's going to be obstacles that come up, but this is not a year to stop and come short of what God's planned for us. 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:56.720 This is a year to go forward. 00:05:56.800 --> 00:05:58.800 Say amen, or I'll keep preaching. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.839 The idea is, you say you're trying to inspire me. 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:03.439 I'm trying to say we're going to face something. 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:08.000 Some of y'all might be facing something right now saying, I don't know if I want to enter into this year. 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.519 Brethren, you only get so much time left in this life. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:21.279 We need to push forward and drive forward and see what God has for us because when we get to the judgment seat of Christ, we don't want to hear him say, Why'd you stop? 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:24.959 Well, they were unkind down there. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:26.319 Why'd you stop? 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:28.879 Well, you know, I made some mistakes. 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:30.240 Why'd you stop? 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:31.759 Why'd you stop down there? 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:32.560 Why'd you give up? 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:34.399 Well, you know the church and the people. 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:35.519 Why'd you stop? 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.000 Well, you know, Christians weren't kind to me down there. 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:39.040 Why'd you stop? 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:40.879 Well, the world, you know, the world. 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:42.000 Why'd you stop? 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:44.560 Well, I just didn't think you wanted to use me anymore. 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:45.680 Why'd you stop? 00:06:45.839 --> 00:06:47.120 We don't want to hear that. 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:50.160 We want to hear, well done, thou good and faithful servant. 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:58.079 The idea is we don't want to stop because something gets in our brain and starts wrapping our minds around that fear. 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:02.720 May I say to you, we're going to be disappointed in someone this year. 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:07.120 Someone this year is going to say stuff about us that we wish they wouldn't have ever said. 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:09.120 Come on, are you still with me? 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:11.920 I hope grudges won't stop us. 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.160 I hope bitterness won't stop us. 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.639 I hope unforgiveness won't stop us. 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:19.279 I hope there'll be no giant to stop us. 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:21.839 I pray that God will help us to conquer. 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:26.959 And the conquering that God has in the Bible is very, very important for us to take note of. 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:29.040 Look at Joshua chapter 10. 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:31.120 Joshua chapter 10. 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.839 Jericho had been straightly shut up. 00:07:33.920 --> 00:07:35.439 It had been tightly closed. 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.360 It had been tightly sealed. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:37.839 Why? 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.639 Because there was great fear in Jericho of the Jewish people. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:49.759 By the time they get to these five kings, they're going to set themselves up against them, they've already got momentum. 00:07:49.920 --> 00:07:51.199 Please listen to me. 00:07:51.360 --> 00:07:53.759 There's nothing like momentum. 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.920 There's nothing like talking positively about what God is doing. 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.879 I'm going to tell you who doesn't have momentum. 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:10.959 Those that are so negative that they get around other negative people and other negative Christians and they can't see God doing wonderful works. 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.800 Because if you're focused on the negative stuff, you can't see the wonderful works that God is doing. 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:22.079 If you're around where God is conquering, that's what you focus on. 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:34.720 And when you focus on what God is doing and souls getting saved and ministries going forward and businesses going forward and families going forward and missions, it tends to override the negative. 00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:37.440 The positive overrides the negative. 00:08:37.600 --> 00:08:40.159 Brethren, there's negative in this world. 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:45.840 Man, I understand we have a president elect, but we still got problems in this country. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:46.879 Would you agree? 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.919 But we decide what we're going to focus on. 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:52.320 We decide on what's important. 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.639 And God already, if you would, has the victory for us this year. 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:04.320 When you get to Joshua chapter 10, I want you to notice that five kings have joined themselves together. 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:12.799 And these five kings are very, very strong cities and strong armies, but they're afraid. 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:14.159 Look at verse number two. 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.840 These five kings that they feared greatly. 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:18.399 Why? 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:28.159 Because Gibeon was a great city, one of the royal cities, because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof was mighty. 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:37.279 Brethren, when they heard that the Gibeonites had made a pledge in a league, and the Gibeonites were great and mighty, these five kings joined themselves together. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:42.720 When they joined themselves together, God said to Joshua, Don't be afraid of them. 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.840 Don't, don't, don't be afraid of them. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:47.919 They've joined together for a reason. 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:51.039 I'm going to take care of all five of them at once. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:58.879 Those that your fathers feared, those that your mothers talked about, those that stopped them from going forward. 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:03.440 I'm bringing these five kings together and watch what I'm going to do. 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:05.200 And the Bible says this. 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:08.399 When those five kings came together, verse 10. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:11.600 Verse 10, and the Lord discomforted them. 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:14.960 The Lord discomforted them. 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:17.039 You say, what is discomfort? 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:22.159 He made them so discomfortable, uh discomforted, they started to flee. 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:29.279 Brethren, you would too, if hailstones were coming down out of heaven, pinpointing you. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:39.039 If I was in the army of the enemy and hailstones were coming down and all the guys around me were dropping because of the hailstones, I would be afraid too. 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:41.519 That's not a good day on the battlefield. 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:42.879 Come on, are you still with me? 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:54.720 And the idea is God got involved and great hailstones came down, and there were more that died of the hailstones than those that died from the weapons of Israel. 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:59.120 And then God stopped the sun from moving forward for a little while. 00:10:59.440 --> 00:11:02.399 Moses stood up and said, Son, stand thou still. 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:08.480 Brethren, it doesn't say it, but while the sun is standing still, I guess the hailstones are still coming down. 00:11:08.799 --> 00:11:12.879 My point being is, is God's going to destroy these five kings. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.159 May I say to you, they flee to a cave. 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.639 They go inside of this cave, and Joshua says, roll a stone on that cave. 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:22.480 We'll come back to them later. 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:33.679 He later comes back and he brings out those kings who represent the fear, the apprehension, the roadblock. 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:39.279 Have you ever had God deliver you out of something that was oppressive? 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:48.559 I mean, he just, he just, I don't know, it was it was there one day and then one day it was gone, but it wasn't so much that it was gone. 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.240 Sometimes it's our mindset against it that changes. 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.320 Sometimes faith comes in. 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.039 And that faith comes in to overcome. 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:00.639 Brethren, either we're more than conquerors or we're not. 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.000 Either we have the power to overcome or we don't. 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:08.960 Relationships, difficulties, finances. 00:12:09.360 --> 00:12:10.639 Name whatever it is. 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.039 Somebody saying something bad about us. 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:18.320 Whatever it is, I don't know what yours is, but may I say, God's still able. 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.679 And he does something here a little unusual. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.399 Notice what he does, and you already know the story. 00:12:24.559 --> 00:12:26.799 He pulls those five kings out. 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:29.360 And notice what he says, verse 21. 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.559 Joshua chapter 10, verse number 21. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:38.080 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makedah. 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:39.919 Makeda is the name of the cave. 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.080 They all returned in peace. 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:48.320 And none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:49.360 Oh, stop. 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:51.360 Would you underline that? 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:57.759 None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.840 Oh, read that again. 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:01.679 What do you mean? 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:04.080 There's no complaining going on. 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.480 There's no backbiting going on. 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.039 There's no negative talk going on. 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:12.559 Nobody was talking bad about the children of Israel. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:14.480 You say, why do you highlight that? 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:18.720 Because their fathers, all they did was talk bad about the leadership. 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:21.200 All they did was talk bad about Moses. 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:24.720 All they did was talk about about what are we doing out here. 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:27.279 All they did was talking bad about the country. 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:29.919 All they did was talking about going back to Egypt. 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:31.600 Brother, may I say something? 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:37.200 If we don't have something that's positive to say, maybe we ought to just keep our trap shut a little bit. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.759 Maybe we ought to keep that within us because it discourages the hearts of other people. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:50.720 Hey, maybe you ought to not talk us so much negative about what's going on in the church when may I say to you, it's not really that bad compared to what other people have. 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:52.960 What I'm saying is, well, did you see this? 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:54.159 Did you see that? 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.399 Hey, nobody's dying today. 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:58.320 Nobody's being threatened today. 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.960 Nobody, nobody has to face what they faced in the Old Testament today. 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:06.240 Maybe we ought to speak positive about each other a little bit. 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.000 Are you still with me or not? 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:12.559 The idea is we can always find fault with something or someone or something. 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:22.480 And God said here very carefully for Joshua, none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:26.879 Brethren, maybe it would be good for us to see some hailstones. 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.120 I'm not talking about on us. 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:31.919 Maybe it'd be just good to see some miracles of God. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.879 Maybe it would shut our mouths from being so negative. 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:36.399 Come on, are you still with me? 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:41.039 I don't want to live in a negative, negative, negative church. 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:44.799 I don't want to live in a negative family. 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:47.200 I don't want to live in a negative marriage. 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:49.120 Come on, are you still with me? 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:50.799 My wife's here tonight. 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:53.039 We don't want to live in a negative marriage. 00:14:53.200 --> 00:15:01.679 I don't want to get home tonight and it just be negative and me negative back to her and her negative to me and me negative back to her. 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:03.679 Hey, brother, I'm going to tell you something. 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:11.919 If we do that at home in our marriage and we're negative about people, and negative about this, and negative about that, sooner or later we're going to turn on each other. 00:15:12.240 --> 00:15:19.039 Because once you get in the habit of talking negative, sooner or later it'll come back to those that you love and those that are in your midst. 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:20.159 Are you still with me? 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.799 I mean, sooner or later, brother, we got to see some positive of the things that are going on. 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:29.120 I I was going to do this tonight, but I don't think the time would permit it. 00:15:29.279 --> 00:15:33.759 It's good to hear like people talking about R you and what God's done for them. 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.320 What God's done for them through the scriptures. 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.559 We heard uh uh Brothers Harold talk about what happens with the teenagers. 00:15:40.720 --> 00:15:43.279 Thank God we have some positive reports. 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:50.159 Either you listen to those and take those in and talk about that, or we walk out the door tonight finding fault. 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:51.679 Did you notice this? 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:53.039 Did you notice that? 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:54.159 Did you notice this? 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:55.200 Did you notice that? 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:56.639 Did you did you notice this? 00:15:56.799 --> 00:15:58.000 Brother, may I say to you? 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:02.399 Sooner or later we look in the mirror and we say, you know the problem here is you, right? 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:03.440 You right there. 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.840 The problem is not the people, the problem's you, man. 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:12.639 Sooner or later you gotta look at yourself and say, that carnal nature, you're the problem. 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:15.759 You're the one seeing things in the wrong way. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:22.159 Hey, those giants were there, but it was the people that saw them wrong, and it was due to their unbelief. 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.000 Brother, I want to tell you something. 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:27.279 Look in the mirror and look at yourself and say this. 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.840 I know there's a carnal nature inside of me. 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.720 I know you're in there, and I know you don't believe in God, and I'm not listening to you this year. 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:43.120 I am not listening to the carnal nature inside of me this year by God's grace about how bad it is. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:46.159 Because all the carnal nature sees, why? 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:47.840 It doesn't believe. 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:54.399 It's not subject to the law of God, it's not submitted to the law of God, it's not submitted to the thoughts of the Holy Ghost. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:55.440 Come on, is that right? 00:16:55.600 --> 00:17:03.360 I'm gonna tell you, if you listen to the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost might correct things, but the Holy Ghost is not criticizing his bride. 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.920 I'm saying again, the Holy Ghost, you say it's not the Holy Ghost bride. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:10.319 Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are one. 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:12.720 Would you agree with that or not? 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:18.079 And you won't hear Jesus Christ doing a whole lot of criticism inside of you about his church. 00:17:18.640 --> 00:17:24.400 He might show you some things, he might point out some things, but he's not going to condemn them. 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.599 He's not gonna be so critical and so negative about them. 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:32.400 If you're listening to that spirit, I'm telling you, that's not typically the Holy Ghost. 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:38.400 The Holy Ghost does not condemn his bride week after week after week after week after week. 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:46.640 The Holy Ghost might correct us, but the Holy Spirit is not slamming his bride to the rest, to our minds. 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:52.799 You say, but but but I thought about this, and I see this, and I saw that, and I saw this person, I saw that. 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:57.200 Get filled with the Holy Spirit, and some of those thoughts will go away. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.000 That unbelief can stop us. 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:03.279 And so, if you would, they brought those five kings out. 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.240 Nobody's talking negative about each other. 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:11.279 Everybody is afraid to do anything because they've just seen God work. 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:18.319 Brother, they just seen hailstones, they saw the sun stop, they saw the great victory. 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:20.559 Nobody's gonna mess that up. 00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:21.519 What do you mean? 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:22.880 I'm not saying a word. 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:24.160 God's moving. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:28.160 I'm not saying a negative thing, God's moving. 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:29.680 I don't want to grieve. 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:30.640 What's going on here? 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:32.079 God's moving. 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:35.680 And Joshua stands up there and says, roll that stone away. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:37.759 Bring those five kings out. 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:41.680 Joshua is not negotiating with those giants. 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:44.880 Come on, you listen to me. 00:18:44.960 --> 00:18:49.519 This is not politic, political, this is not terrorists, and we'll negotiate with them. 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:51.839 This is Joshua, bring them out. 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:54.319 They stood against God. 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:56.160 They stood against the people of God. 00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.039 Just bring them out. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.759 Nobody's sitting down at the peace table. 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.039 There's only one thing Joshua has in mind. 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.880 But before he does it, he says, bring those kings over here. 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.880 Make them bow down, make them kneel down, make them lay down. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.920 Hundreds of thousands of the armory are out there. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:15.200 All the armies out there. 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:17.599 He said, I want the leaders to come up. 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:19.759 All the leaders, come on up here. 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:21.680 The leaders start coming up there. 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:23.039 Man, now listen to me. 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:34.559 They're bloodied, they're sweaty, they've been in battle, they're adrenaline, they've been pumped up, they've they've been they've been they've been out there fighting, if you would. 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.799 They've not gone home for showers yet. 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:38.240 Come on, are you still with me? 00:19:39.359 --> 00:19:45.200 They're ugly, they're smelly, they're bleeding, and and here are the ones who've caused it. 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:48.160 Let them kneel down. 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:50.000 Have them lay down. 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:52.960 And he says, now you you leaders, come up here. 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:55.279 Put your feet right on their necks. 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.160 Put your feet right on their necks. 00:19:58.400 --> 00:20:06.799 Don't tell me they they uh oh don't tell me they went, uh uh uh I don't want to hurt them, brethren. 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.240 If you just come out of battle, put them down there, man. 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:15.759 I can I can see them putting those sandals, those big sandals right on their neck. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.079 Come on, are you still with me or not? 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:23.599 They're not afraid of them, they're not afraid of their cities. 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:28.720 They're not afraid, they believe more in God than they have the fear of those giants. 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:31.759 And those are the leaders of those giants. 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:35.920 And he says, put your put your put your feet right on them. 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:38.720 And they come over and read the scriptures real quick with me. 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:40.160 Read them what it says there. 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.839 Verse number 24. 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:45.839 Right in the middle, they gather all the captains together, the men of war. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:53.359 They're they're they're they're tired, they're exhausted, they're they're they're bloodied, they're they're sweaty, they stink. 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:56.160 They come over there and those are those kings. 00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:57.519 Come near. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:00.559 Put your feet upon the necks of these kings. 00:21:00.720 --> 00:21:03.920 And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them. 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:04.960 Please listen to me. 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:07.440 God did not have to record that. 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:10.240 God decided to record that. 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:12.480 Put your feet on the necks. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.200 This is what your fathers were afraid of. 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:18.240 This is what your fathers stopped for. 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:21.359 This is what your fathers didn't believe I could do. 00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:23.039 Come on, are you still with me? 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:27.279 Because it was a Lord and the hailstones and it was a sun standing still. 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:29.599 This is where your fathers stopped. 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.359 This is what they were afraid of. 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:33.359 This is the report they came back. 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:38.960 This is this is who they said that they looked on them like grasshoppers. 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:41.599 Come on, are you still with me? 00:21:42.559 --> 00:21:44.319 These are the ones that he were saying. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:49.279 We we saw them, they're great statures, they have walls, and they look at us like grasshoppers. 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:51.519 This is what stopped them right here. 00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:53.759 Now put your necks, put your feet on them. 00:21:54.000 --> 00:21:55.680 You didn't conquer them, I did. 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:58.720 You didn't conquer them, I did. 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:02.240 That which you were afraid of put your feet on it. 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:03.759 Why did they do that? 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:06.480 Brethren, it wasn't about the humans down there. 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:08.559 It was about their hearts. 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:11.119 It was about their faith growing. 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:13.200 It was about belief in God. 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:15.200 Come on, are you still with me? 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:18.000 Put it right there. 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:19.519 That you what you were afraid of? 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:20.799 I got that handled. 00:22:21.039 --> 00:22:22.640 You're more than conquerors in that. 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:23.759 We can handle that. 00:22:24.079 --> 00:22:25.279 We can take care of that. 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:26.319 I can do that. 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:27.279 I can fix that. 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.119 Come on, are you still with me tonight or not? 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:31.440 I'll keep preaching until you say amen. 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:37.519 The idea is sometimes God says now I've got that conquered. 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:40.079 Stand on it. 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:43.119 I've got it conquered. 00:22:44.079 --> 00:22:46.319 Stop being afraid of it. 00:22:46.880 --> 00:22:48.799 I'm talking to myself tonight. 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:50.960 Stop being afraid of it. 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:53.599 Stop being concerned about it. 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:56.240 Don't let it stop your faith. 00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:59.599 Don't let it stop you from driving forward. 00:22:59.920 --> 00:23:03.440 Don't let it stop you from becoming who you're supposed to become. 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.000 Don't let it stop you from praising me. 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:08.799 Don't let it stop you from giving more glory. 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:13.599 Don't let it stop you from doing what I want you to do and don't let it stop you. 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:17.200 I don't want to say at my judgment why did you stop? 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:25.759 All you had to do is keep full keep going and I could have sub I could have made them submission submitted to you. 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:30.640 They would have been afraid of you when I'm involved. 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:38.079 Well there was no negotiation next thing Joshua did says when they let them up he killed them and hung them on a tree. 00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:41.200 Come on is that right no negotiation. 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:43.920 No let's pray about what God wants us to do. 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:44.799 It was done. 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:47.839 They conquered it look at Hebrews 3 and we're done. 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.480 Hebrews chapter 3 Hebrews chapter 3. 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:59.200 And I pray tonight we could go to the Lord and say Lord give thy servant great hope. 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:10.240 Give thy servant great hope against that what's the that you know what I'm talking about whatever that is in your life. 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:16.319 Everybody has a that you say I don't have anything I'm afraid of good keep it that way. 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:21.680 Get ready though when it comes Lord give me the hope that I need against that. 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:28.319 Help me to have the belief to conquer that because look what it says in Hebrews chapter 3. 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:40.799 Notice if you would brother in verse number 18 verse number 18 and to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not. 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:50.240 So we see so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief let us let us therefore fear. 00:24:50.400 --> 00:24:52.319 What should we be afraid of the giants? 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:56.000 No, we should be afraid of not moving forward. 00:24:56.240 --> 00:25:03.839 Let us therefore fear lest a promise being left us of entering in there is rest any of you should seem to come short of it. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:10.880 Whatever God's vision is for us this year, brethren, may God help us to conquer the whole thing. 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:28.720 Whatever it is for your family, whatever it is for you as an individual, what it is for you as a marriage, whatever it is for you as a ministry, whatever it is for you in college, whatever it is for you in the military, may God help us to overcome the kind of fear that causes us to well I don't know if I can go forward. 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:30.559 I don't know if I can still do that or not. 00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:32.240 I don't know if we can do that or not. 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:37.039 May I say to you we ought to be afraid of being afraid to do it. 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:43.039 I want to say it one more time we ought to fear our fear of being afraid to do it. 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.680 He said hey why are we not going forward? 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:49.359