SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Sharper Sword, the publication ministry of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California.
SPEAKER_00: Lighthouse believes that individuals can reach their potential for the Lord as they grow in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: We want to hear our Lord say, Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
SPEAKER_00: Let's join Pastor Doug Fisher as he preaches another important biblical message from the Word of God.
SPEAKER_01: Let's take our Bibles tonight.
SPEAKER_01: I'll be a little shorter tonight.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua 10 and Hebrews 3.
SPEAKER_01: Good testimonies tonight.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua 10 and Hebrews chapter 3.
SPEAKER_01: I'll do a little bit more work for you tonight.
SPEAKER_01: You'll just listen in, and then we'll look at Joshua 10 and Hebrews 3 and be uh settled with that tonight.
SPEAKER_01: In Joshua 10, Hebrews 3, you're holding your place there.
SPEAKER_01: The situation is uh simple.
SPEAKER_01: It's not simple, it's complex, but it's simple to us.
SPEAKER_01: Because we can read about it and study about it, but we need to apply it to our lives.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: They all reported that there was giants in the land.
SPEAKER_01: And I wish they could take some time to talk about the strong cities and the giants.
SPEAKER_01: Ten of the spies came back, and they were not, they were not convinced that they could conquer.
SPEAKER_01: But remember, God had not made it for them to conquer.
SPEAKER_01: He said, I'll drive them out.
SPEAKER_01: I'll put my fear on them.
SPEAKER_01: I'll do the work.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Now, I want to make this statement to you.
SPEAKER_01: This coming year, we're gonna face something that causes us to be a little afraid.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know what it'll be, but something will cause us to fear a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: Now, please listen to me.
SPEAKER_01: There'll be a giant obstacle in our life sooner or later this year.
SPEAKER_01: Sooner or later this year, walking by faith, something will come up that will appear to us very, very large.
SPEAKER_01: But I want to tell you something, no obstacle is bigger than God.
SPEAKER_01: Something will come up in our life this year, though, that will create this fear.
SPEAKER_01: But really, the fear was based on something else.
SPEAKER_01: The fear was based on unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I want to say that again.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, faith has to keep growing.
SPEAKER_01: Faith cannot just be stagnant.
SPEAKER_01: If you stop swimming upstream, the current will push you back.
SPEAKER_01: If you stop swimming against the world, the world will push you back.
SPEAKER_01: Faith is a constant walk that pushes us and drives us forward against this world.
SPEAKER_01: Would you agree with that?
SPEAKER_01: Against our carnal nature.
SPEAKER_01: If we ever get something in our way and you say, what could get in our way, please listen.
SPEAKER_01: It's something that our mind gets wrapped around that we can't get rid of.
SPEAKER_01: I'll say it again.
SPEAKER_01: It's something that our mind gets wrapped around.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Now don't tell me you haven't had something like that.
SPEAKER_01: If you haven't yet, you will.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Listen to me.
SPEAKER_01: It can produce anxiety, it can produce uh headaches.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, say amen right there.
SPEAKER_01: It can produce sleepless nights, it can produce a lot of things.
SPEAKER_01: You say, I don't have that.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And I just want to say to you tonight, what we need is increased faith in God's ability.
SPEAKER_01: Because it wasn't the giants that really stopped them.
SPEAKER_01: It was their belief or unbelief that God couldn't conquer them.
SPEAKER_01: And God could conquer them.
SPEAKER_01: We know by the time they get the sp the spy, the two spies, goes to Rahab.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: It's ingrained in the culture, but praise the Lord, the children don't believe it.
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: The children, 20 years and below, don't believe it.
SPEAKER_01: By the time they get old enough, they've decided to go past the fear of their fathers.
SPEAKER_01: They've decided to go past the fear of their mothers.
SPEAKER_01: They've decided not to listen to the 10 spies in their report.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, as a church, we need to go forward this year.
SPEAKER_01: As families, we need to go forward this year.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: This is a year to go forward.
SPEAKER_01: Say amen, or I'll keep preaching.
SPEAKER_01: The idea is, you say you're trying to inspire me.
SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to say we're going to face something.
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all might be facing something right now saying, I don't know if I want to enter into this year.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, you only get so much time left in this life.
SPEAKER_01: 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?
SPEAKER_01: Well, they were unkind down there.
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you stop?
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, I made some mistakes.
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you stop?
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you stop down there?
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you give up?
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know the church and the people.
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you stop?
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, Christians weren't kind to me down there.
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you stop?
SPEAKER_01: Well, the world, you know, the world.
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you stop?
SPEAKER_01: Well, I just didn't think you wanted to use me anymore.
SPEAKER_01: Why'd you stop?
SPEAKER_01: We don't want to hear that.
SPEAKER_01: We want to hear, well done, thou good and faithful servant.
SPEAKER_01: The idea is we don't want to stop because something gets in our brain and starts wrapping our minds around that fear.
SPEAKER_01: May I say to you, we're going to be disappointed in someone this year.
SPEAKER_01: Someone this year is going to say stuff about us that we wish they wouldn't have ever said.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: I hope grudges won't stop us.
SPEAKER_01: I hope bitterness won't stop us.
SPEAKER_01: I hope unforgiveness won't stop us.
SPEAKER_01: I hope there'll be no giant to stop us.
SPEAKER_01: I pray that God will help us to conquer.
SPEAKER_01: And the conquering that God has in the Bible is very, very important for us to take note of.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Joshua chapter 10.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua chapter 10.
SPEAKER_01: Jericho had been straightly shut up.
SPEAKER_01: It had been tightly closed.
SPEAKER_01: It had been tightly sealed.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because there was great fear in Jericho of the Jewish people.
SPEAKER_01: By the time they get to these five kings, they're going to set themselves up against them, they've already got momentum.
SPEAKER_01: Please listen to me.
SPEAKER_01: There's nothing like momentum.
SPEAKER_01: There's nothing like talking positively about what God is doing.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to tell you who doesn't have momentum.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Because if you're focused on the negative stuff, you can't see the wonderful works that God is doing.
SPEAKER_01: If you're around where God is conquering, that's what you focus on.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: The positive overrides the negative.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, there's negative in this world.
SPEAKER_01: Man, I understand we have a president elect, but we still got problems in this country.
SPEAKER_01: Would you agree?
SPEAKER_01: But we decide what we're going to focus on.
SPEAKER_01: We decide on what's important.
SPEAKER_01: And God already, if you would, has the victory for us this year.
SPEAKER_01: When you get to Joshua chapter 10, I want you to notice that five kings have joined themselves together.
SPEAKER_01: And these five kings are very, very strong cities and strong armies, but they're afraid.
SPEAKER_01: Look at verse number two.
SPEAKER_01: These five kings that they feared greatly.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because Gibeon was a great city, one of the royal cities, because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof was mighty.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: When they joined themselves together, God said to Joshua, Don't be afraid of them.
SPEAKER_01: Don't, don't, don't be afraid of them.
SPEAKER_01: They've joined together for a reason.
SPEAKER_01: I'm going to take care of all five of them at once.
SPEAKER_01: Those that your fathers feared, those that your mothers talked about, those that stopped them from going forward.
SPEAKER_01: I'm bringing these five kings together and watch what I'm going to do.
SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says this.
SPEAKER_01: When those five kings came together, verse 10.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 10, and the Lord discomforted them.
SPEAKER_01: The Lord discomforted them.
SPEAKER_01: You say, what is discomfort?
SPEAKER_01: He made them so discomfortable, uh discomforted, they started to flee.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, you would too, if hailstones were coming down out of heaven, pinpointing you.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: That's not a good day on the battlefield.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: And then God stopped the sun from moving forward for a little while.
SPEAKER_01: Moses stood up and said, Son, stand thou still.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, it doesn't say it, but while the sun is standing still, I guess the hailstones are still coming down.
SPEAKER_01: My point being is, is God's going to destroy these five kings.
SPEAKER_01: May I say to you, they flee to a cave.
SPEAKER_01: They go inside of this cave, and Joshua says, roll a stone on that cave.
SPEAKER_01: We'll come back to them later.
SPEAKER_01: He later comes back and he brings out those kings who represent the fear, the apprehension, the roadblock.
SPEAKER_01: Have you ever had God deliver you out of something that was oppressive?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes it's our mindset against it that changes.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes faith comes in.
SPEAKER_01: And that faith comes in to overcome.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, either we're more than conquerors or we're not.
SPEAKER_01: Either we have the power to overcome or we don't.
SPEAKER_01: Relationships, difficulties, finances.
SPEAKER_01: Name whatever it is.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody saying something bad about us.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever it is, I don't know what yours is, but may I say, God's still able.
SPEAKER_01: And he does something here a little unusual.
SPEAKER_01: Notice what he does, and you already know the story.
SPEAKER_01: He pulls those five kings out.
SPEAKER_01: And notice what he says, verse 21.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua chapter 10, verse number 21.
SPEAKER_01: And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makedah.
SPEAKER_01: Makeda is the name of the cave.
SPEAKER_01: They all returned in peace.
SPEAKER_01: And none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, stop.
SPEAKER_01: Would you underline that?
SPEAKER_01: None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, read that again.
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: There's no complaining going on.
SPEAKER_01: There's no backbiting going on.
SPEAKER_01: There's no negative talk going on.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody was talking bad about the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: You say, why do you highlight that?
SPEAKER_01: Because their fathers, all they did was talk bad about the leadership.
SPEAKER_01: All they did was talk bad about Moses.
SPEAKER_01: All they did was talk about about what are we doing out here.
SPEAKER_01: All they did was talking bad about the country.
SPEAKER_01: All they did was talking about going back to Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: Brother, may I say something?
SPEAKER_01: If we don't have something that's positive to say, maybe we ought to just keep our trap shut a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe we ought to keep that within us because it discourages the hearts of other people.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: What I'm saying is, well, did you see this?
SPEAKER_01: Did you see that?
SPEAKER_01: Hey, nobody's dying today.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's being threatened today.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody, nobody has to face what they faced in the Old Testament today.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe we ought to speak positive about each other a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: Are you still with me or not?
SPEAKER_01: The idea is we can always find fault with something or someone or something.
SPEAKER_01: And God said here very carefully for Joshua, none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, maybe it would be good for us to see some hailstones.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not talking about on us.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe it'd be just good to see some miracles of God.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe it would shut our mouths from being so negative.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to live in a negative, negative, negative church.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to live in a negative family.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to live in a negative marriage.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: My wife's here tonight.
SPEAKER_01: We don't want to live in a negative marriage.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, brother, I'm going to tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: I mean, sooner or later, brother, we got to see some positive of the things that are going on.
SPEAKER_01: I I was going to do this tonight, but I don't think the time would permit it.
SPEAKER_01: It's good to hear like people talking about R you and what God's done for them.
SPEAKER_01: What God's done for them through the scriptures.
SPEAKER_01: We heard uh uh Brothers Harold talk about what happens with the teenagers.
SPEAKER_01: Thank God we have some positive reports.
SPEAKER_01: Either you listen to those and take those in and talk about that, or we walk out the door tonight finding fault.
SPEAKER_01: Did you notice this?
SPEAKER_01: Did you notice that?
SPEAKER_01: Did you notice this?
SPEAKER_01: Did you notice that?
SPEAKER_01: Did you did you notice this?
SPEAKER_01: Brother, may I say to you?
SPEAKER_01: Sooner or later we look in the mirror and we say, you know the problem here is you, right?
SPEAKER_01: You right there.
SPEAKER_01: The problem is not the people, the problem's you, man.
SPEAKER_01: Sooner or later you gotta look at yourself and say, that carnal nature, you're the problem.
SPEAKER_01: You're the one seeing things in the wrong way.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, those giants were there, but it was the people that saw them wrong, and it was due to their unbelief.
SPEAKER_01: Brother, I want to tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: Look in the mirror and look at yourself and say this.
SPEAKER_01: I know there's a carnal nature inside of me.
SPEAKER_01: I know you're in there, and I know you don't believe in God, and I'm not listening to you this year.
SPEAKER_01: I am not listening to the carnal nature inside of me this year by God's grace about how bad it is.
SPEAKER_01: Because all the carnal nature sees, why?
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't believe.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, is that right?
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying again, the Holy Ghost, you say it's not the Holy Ghost bride.
SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are one.
SPEAKER_01: Would you agree with that or not?
SPEAKER_01: And you won't hear Jesus Christ doing a whole lot of criticism inside of you about his church.
SPEAKER_01: He might show you some things, he might point out some things, but he's not going to condemn them.
SPEAKER_01: He's not gonna be so critical and so negative about them.
SPEAKER_01: If you're listening to that spirit, I'm telling you, that's not typically the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Ghost does not condemn his bride week after week after week after week after week.
SPEAKER_01: The Holy Ghost might correct us, but the Holy Spirit is not slamming his bride to the rest, to our minds.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Get filled with the Holy Spirit, and some of those thoughts will go away.
SPEAKER_01: That unbelief can stop us.
SPEAKER_01: And so, if you would, they brought those five kings out.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's talking negative about each other.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody is afraid to do anything because they've just seen God work.
SPEAKER_01: Brother, they just seen hailstones, they saw the sun stop, they saw the great victory.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's gonna mess that up.
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying a word.
SPEAKER_01: God's moving.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not saying a negative thing, God's moving.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to grieve.
SPEAKER_01: What's going on here?
SPEAKER_01: God's moving.
SPEAKER_01: And Joshua stands up there and says, roll that stone away.
SPEAKER_01: Bring those five kings out.
SPEAKER_01: Joshua is not negotiating with those giants.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, you listen to me.
SPEAKER_01: This is not politic, political, this is not terrorists, and we'll negotiate with them.
SPEAKER_01: This is Joshua, bring them out.
SPEAKER_01: They stood against God.
SPEAKER_01: They stood against the people of God.
SPEAKER_01: Just bring them out.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody's sitting down at the peace table.
SPEAKER_01: There's only one thing Joshua has in mind.
SPEAKER_01: But before he does it, he says, bring those kings over here.
SPEAKER_01: Make them bow down, make them kneel down, make them lay down.
SPEAKER_01: Hundreds of thousands of the armory are out there.
SPEAKER_01: All the armies out there.
SPEAKER_01: He said, I want the leaders to come up.
SPEAKER_01: All the leaders, come on up here.
SPEAKER_01: The leaders start coming up there.
SPEAKER_01: Man, now listen to me.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: They've not gone home for showers yet.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: They're ugly, they're smelly, they're bleeding, and and here are the ones who've caused it.
SPEAKER_01: Let them kneel down.
SPEAKER_01: Have them lay down.
SPEAKER_01: And he says, now you you leaders, come up here.
SPEAKER_01: Put your feet right on their necks.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: If you just come out of battle, put them down there, man.
SPEAKER_01: I can I can see them putting those sandals, those big sandals right on their neck.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me or not?
SPEAKER_01: They're not afraid of them, they're not afraid of their cities.
SPEAKER_01: They're not afraid, they believe more in God than they have the fear of those giants.
SPEAKER_01: And those are the leaders of those giants.
SPEAKER_01: And he says, put your put your put your feet right on them.
SPEAKER_01: And they come over and read the scriptures real quick with me.
SPEAKER_01: Read them what it says there.
SPEAKER_01: Verse number 24.
SPEAKER_01: Right in the middle, they gather all the captains together, the men of war.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: They come over there and those are those kings.
SPEAKER_01: Come near.
SPEAKER_01: Put your feet upon the necks of these kings.
SPEAKER_01: And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them.
SPEAKER_01: Please listen to me.
SPEAKER_01: God did not have to record that.
SPEAKER_01: God decided to record that.
SPEAKER_01: Put your feet on the necks.
SPEAKER_01: This is what your fathers were afraid of.
SPEAKER_01: This is what your fathers stopped for.
SPEAKER_01: This is what your fathers didn't believe I could do.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: Because it was a Lord and the hailstones and it was a sun standing still.
SPEAKER_01: This is where your fathers stopped.
SPEAKER_01: This is what they were afraid of.
SPEAKER_01: This is the report they came back.
SPEAKER_01: This is this is who they said that they looked on them like grasshoppers.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: These are the ones that he were saying.
SPEAKER_01: We we saw them, they're great statures, they have walls, and they look at us like grasshoppers.
SPEAKER_01: This is what stopped them right here.
SPEAKER_01: Now put your necks, put your feet on them.
SPEAKER_01: You didn't conquer them, I did.
SPEAKER_01: That which you were afraid of put your feet on it.
SPEAKER_01: Why did they do that?
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, it wasn't about the humans down there.
SPEAKER_01: It was about their hearts.
SPEAKER_01: It was about their faith growing.
SPEAKER_01: It was about belief in God.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: Put it right there.
SPEAKER_01: That you what you were afraid of?
SPEAKER_01: I got that handled.
SPEAKER_01: You're more than conquerors in that.
SPEAKER_01: We can handle that.
SPEAKER_01: We can take care of that.
SPEAKER_01: I can do that.
SPEAKER_01: I can fix that.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me tonight or not?
SPEAKER_01: I'll keep preaching until you say amen.
SPEAKER_01: The idea is sometimes God says now I've got that conquered.
SPEAKER_01: Stand on it.
SPEAKER_01: I've got it conquered.
SPEAKER_01: Stop being afraid of it.
SPEAKER_01: I'm talking to myself tonight.
SPEAKER_01: Stop being afraid of it.
SPEAKER_01: Stop being concerned about it.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let it stop your faith.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let it stop you from driving forward.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let it stop you from becoming who you're supposed to become.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let it stop you from praising me.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let it stop you from giving more glory.
SPEAKER_01: Don't let it stop you from doing what I want you to do and don't let it stop you.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to say at my judgment why did you stop?
SPEAKER_01: All you had to do is keep full keep going and I could have sub I could have made them submission submitted to you.
SPEAKER_01: They would have been afraid of you when I'm involved.
SPEAKER_01: Well there was no negotiation next thing Joshua did says when they let them up he killed them and hung them on a tree.
SPEAKER_01: Come on is that right no negotiation.
SPEAKER_01: No let's pray about what God wants us to do.
SPEAKER_01: It was done.
SPEAKER_01: They conquered it look at Hebrews 3 and we're done.
SPEAKER_01: Hebrews chapter 3 Hebrews chapter 3.
SPEAKER_01: And I pray tonight we could go to the Lord and say Lord give thy servant great hope.
SPEAKER_01: Give thy servant great hope against that what's the that you know what I'm talking about whatever that is in your life.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody has a that you say I don't have anything I'm afraid of good keep it that way.
SPEAKER_01: Get ready though when it comes Lord give me the hope that I need against that.
SPEAKER_01: Help me to have the belief to conquer that because look what it says in Hebrews chapter 3.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: So we see so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief let us let us therefore fear.
SPEAKER_01: What should we be afraid of the giants?
SPEAKER_01: No, we should be afraid of not moving forward.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever God's vision is for us this year, brethren, may God help us to conquer the whole thing.
SPEAKER_01: 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.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if I can still do that or not.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know if we can do that or not.
SPEAKER_01: May I say to you we ought to be afraid of being afraid to do it.
SPEAKER_01: I want to say it one more time we ought to fear our fear of being afraid to do it.
SPEAKER_01: He said hey why are we not going forward?
SPEAKER_01: It's a lack of faith.
SPEAKER_01: God increase our faith Lord help me to know you better grant thy servant to be closer to you.
SPEAKER_01: Help us to know you even better because the closer we get to him the greater our faith grows.
SPEAKER_01: Brother I'm going to tell you something if we could just go to heaven for four seconds and come back down here.
SPEAKER_01: I'm serious if we could go to heaven for three seconds and turn back around and come back down here.
SPEAKER_01: I mean if we could go to the third heaven just for a couple seconds like Paul did and come back down here chains would not be a problem anymore.
SPEAKER_01: I mean finances wouldn't be a problem anymore.
SPEAKER_01: What people say about us wouldn't be a problem anymore.
SPEAKER_01: And I'll guarantee you we'd be greater encouragers.
SPEAKER_01: We'd be greater encouragers to each other.
SPEAKER_01: If we went to heaven for three seconds it would stop any backbiting it would stop any busybody stuff it would stop any envy it would stop any jealousy it would stop us comparing ourselves to each other it would stop all that if we could just go to heaven for three seconds and come back.
SPEAKER_01: Oh we'd say hey there's work to be done once you see that and that's eternity man oh man let me go down there and tear this thing up now.
SPEAKER_01: Well brethren we have the opportunity to do that through this book through the word of God and you say well why does he just take us up there?
SPEAKER_01: Because we have to do it by faith.
SPEAKER_01: If you don't do it by faith it's not pleasing to him come on is that right we have to believe that he's able and it's the Holy Ghost inside of us that says we can do it.
SPEAKER_01: You can do it you can conquer that you you can be what God wants you to be I I can take care of that for you.
SPEAKER_01: Whatever you do don't stop the momentum don't stop your vision don't stop your plan don't stop what God's given you hey brother God may say look back on what I've already conquered in your life look look back on what I've already done for you.
SPEAKER_01: You remember you used to be afraid of that you're not afraid of that anymore it doesn't even come to your mind.
SPEAKER_01: You remember you used to you used to be apprehensive about that have you noticed you're not even concerned about that anymore I took care of that.
SPEAKER_01: I'm saying to you we've already put our foot on some necks we've already put our foot on some things in these past years that God has given us the victory over.
SPEAKER_01: Come on is that right and he can do it again we have to build upon that faith that God is able brethren listen to me there are souls out there that need to be saved.
SPEAKER_01: Yeah but I just don't like I don't like people you know giving me a hard time about giving them a track.
SPEAKER_01: Man I gotta tell you something if we just went to hell for three seconds we would come back soul winners.
SPEAKER_01: Come on that's true.
SPEAKER_01: If we went to heaven for three seconds we'd come back let's do it let's got vision if we went to hell for three seconds we'd come back and say I need to witness to that person.
SPEAKER_01: I need to witness over there I need to talk to them about the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: I need to tell them about the Lord come on is that right if we went to hell for three seconds I believe would make us I mean we we'd have I don't care what you say you come to church with me.
SPEAKER_01: Well but but don't offend me I don't care whether you're offender or not I was just in hell and I'm back and I care about your soul and you don't want to go there whether you're offender or not I'm dragging you to church come on are you still with me if we went to hell three seconds we'd come back we'd be grabbing our neighbors by the by the scruff of the neck and say get in the car man you're coming to church I care about you.
SPEAKER_01: The point of it being is brethren we have to believe what God talks about in this book.
SPEAKER_01: Please let's not let giants stop us.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be what we're supposed to be this year and let's encourage one another and let's be careful.
SPEAKER_01: Let's do what they did in the book of Joshua where they didn't speak evil about what was going on the in the in the nobody nobody spake negative about the congregation.
SPEAKER_01: Let's stop that a little bit you say what have you heard I haven't heard anything but let's stop it a little bit.
SPEAKER_01: You say well why are you saying it once in a while I get thoughts in my head too don't you tell me you don't get thoughts in your head about this and about this and about that and about that.
SPEAKER_01: Hey you know what nah get that get out of here I'm gonna enjoy the Lord tonight.
SPEAKER_01: If you had a bad day at church go home and decide I'm gonna put my foot on the neck of that and I'm gonna enjoy what God's been doing.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna enjoy what God's been been planning and praise the Lord I'm still in.
SPEAKER_01: You know what?
SPEAKER_01: Praise God we're not we're not out of our brains tonight out of our minds tonight.
SPEAKER_01: We're not on drugs tonight as far as loopy you know staring at things and laughing at stupid things with each other.
SPEAKER_01: We're not drunk tonight.
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna remember the night we're gonna remember what we did tonight.
SPEAKER_01: We're not gonna throw up at the end of the night come on are you still with me pray praise praise the Lord we still have a sound mind tonight.
SPEAKER_01: And I want to tell you something don't just take that for granted praise the Lord God's given you the sound mind.
SPEAKER_01: He's not giving you the spirit of fear tonight.
SPEAKER_01: Praise God for that because I want to tell you something tonight if without him we'd all be facing satanic oppression.
SPEAKER_01: Praise God he's got a hedge around us tonight and he wants us to go forward.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to this message by Pastor Doug Fisher of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California.
SPEAKER_00: To learn more about Lighthouse Baptist Church, visit our website at www dot lighthousebaptist dot com or call six one nine four six one fifty five sixty one.