SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Sharper Sword, the publication ministry of White House Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California.
SPEAKER_00: White House 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: The Balaam worship.
SPEAKER_01: If you'll read on down, he he began to cut down the different groves that they used to worship false gods.
SPEAKER_01: Notice, if you would, verse number eight.
SPEAKER_01: Verse number eight.
SPEAKER_01: In the 18th year of his reign.
SPEAKER_01: So he's now, how old?
SPEAKER_01: Eight plus eighteen is, say it?
SPEAKER_01: 26.
SPEAKER_01: He's 26 years old.
SPEAKER_01: Notice he begins to repair the house of the Lord his God.
SPEAKER_01: He he did some fundraising.
SPEAKER_01: He got money, if you would, and he put it in the hand of workmen.
SPEAKER_01: He's 26 years old, and he made sure they were uh doing the work on the house of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: While they're doing the work on the house of the Lord, they find a book in there.
SPEAKER_01: And the book is the book of the law.
SPEAKER_01: And if you'll read carefully down in verse number 18 and 19, he has certain scholars, certain men, certain leaders read that unto him.
SPEAKER_01: And while they're reading that unto him, that book of the law, uh, it begins to shake his mind a little bit about what God is saying.
SPEAKER_01: Notice at 26 years old.
SPEAKER_01: Look at verse number 21.
SPEAKER_01: Verse number 21, he says, Go inquire of the Lord for me.
SPEAKER_01: 26 years old, he says, I want to know about these things that are written in the book that is found.
SPEAKER_01: He says, It seems like the wrath of the Lord is poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: He's 26 years old.
SPEAKER_01: Well, he goes on down, and uh, and what he is told by this, those that have read to him, and they go to inquire of the Lord, Heckiah does, and God gives him an answer.
SPEAKER_01: Verse number 23 Tell ye the man that sent you to me.
SPEAKER_01: Tell that 26-year-old Josiah, thus saith the Lord, I will bring evil upon the inhabitants of the land.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: They've been uh forsaking me and burning God uh incense to other gods.
SPEAKER_01: But verse number 26, as for that king, as for that 26-year-old king, Josiah, who sent you to inquire, make sure you say unto him, verse number 27, because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God.
SPEAKER_01: When thou heardest these words uh against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, and humblest thyself, you were 26, and because you humbled yourself, there's there's certain things that I'm going to do for you.
SPEAKER_01: And then the king in verse number 29, the uh 26-year-old gathers together all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, and he made sure that the words of this book are read in their ears, and he stands and makes a public covenant to walk with the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: And I want you to see in verse number uh 33, Josiah took away all the abominations out of the country.
SPEAKER_01: He he cleaned up the false worship, and in all his days he departed not from following the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Now, would you hold your place right there?
SPEAKER_01: You get this picture of who Josiah is.
SPEAKER_01: He's still 26 years old.
SPEAKER_01: And God makes a statement.
SPEAKER_01: Hold your place right there.
SPEAKER_01: Look over at 2 Kings, please.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Kings chapter number 23, and uh notice what 2 Kings 23 says, and notice verse number 25.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Kings 23, verse 25.
SPEAKER_01: And like unto him was there no king, speaking about Josiah, and like unto him, there was no king before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, neither after him arose there any like him.
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that interesting, Josiah, when God uh gives you a little synopsis of who he is, he said, There was no king like him.
SPEAKER_01: There was no king that turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his might.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, he was full in, fully committed.
SPEAKER_01: And that was God's uh, if you would, editorial comment about Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: Go back to 2 Chronicles 35.
SPEAKER_01: 2 Chronicles 35, and Josiah keeps a Passover.
SPEAKER_01: In verse number one, you'll see Josiah is still 26 years old, and he keeps a Passover, and and what was said about this Passover is in verse number 18.
SPEAKER_01: Look at 35, 18.
SPEAKER_01: And it says, there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet.
SPEAKER_01: Think of all the different kings represented there, whether it be a Hezekiah or Jehoshaphat, there was no Passover that was kept in Israel from the days of Samuel.
SPEAKER_01: And neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept.
SPEAKER_01: So you can see how God elevates him in telling us about him.
SPEAKER_01: And now in verse number 39, verse number 19, remember that Passover was kept in the 18th year, so he's still 26 years old.
SPEAKER_01: And then God decides to tell us something.
SPEAKER_01: And what he tells us is almost like it's stunning.
SPEAKER_01: When you just have contemplated who Josiah is and what he has done at such an age, what he did at 16 and what he did there at 26, and who he was, uh, there was a king that came up whose name was Neko.
SPEAKER_01: He was king of Egypt.
SPEAKER_01: And when he came up, he uh sent messengers, if you would, to Josiah, verse 21.
SPEAKER_01: He sent messengers to him, to Josiah, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah?
SPEAKER_01: Speaking to Josiah, I came, uh I come not against thee this day, but against the house whereof I have war.
SPEAKER_01: He said, I didn't come against you, Soiah.
SPEAKER_01: I I didn't come to war with you.
SPEAKER_01: And then uh Niko says, This, for God commanded me, for God commanded me to make haste, forbear uh uh thee from meddling with God who is with me, that he destroy thee not.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, the king there of Egypt says to Niko, he says to Josiah, I didn't come to war with you.
SPEAKER_01: God commanded me to do something, and I'm here.
SPEAKER_01: And uh, if I were you, uh Josiah, I would forbear and I wouldn't meddle.
SPEAKER_01: I wouldn't get involved with what God has me to do.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 22, the first word, nevertheless, nevertheless, Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself that he might fight with him and not hearken not unto the words of God.
SPEAKER_01: Would you say the next uh few words with me, the next five words?
SPEAKER_01: Say it, from the mouth of God.
SPEAKER_01: Say it again, from the mouth of God.
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: Nico said, Don't meddle with me, don't come near me.
SPEAKER_01: I didn't come to fight with you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm doing something God wants me to do.
SPEAKER_01: But uh Josiah hearkened not.
SPEAKER_01: And evidently Nico was getting something from God, and the Bible says the archer shot at King Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: The king said unto his servants, Have me away, for I am sore wounded.
SPEAKER_01: And they put him in a second chariot, and the Bible says they they brought him to Jerusalem, and there Josiah died.
SPEAKER_01: You know how old he was?
SPEAKER_01: We'd already read he had uh he was when he was eight years old, he he ruled and reigned 30 and one year, so he's 39 years old.
SPEAKER_01: Think of what he did between 16 and 26.
SPEAKER_01: Uh think about what he accomplished.
SPEAKER_01: And here he is at 39 years old, and uh he gets involved in something that evidently he he shouldn't have got involved with, and God, if you would, uh, writes it down for us.
SPEAKER_01: You know, there ought to be a lesson in here for us.
SPEAKER_01: There ought to be a lesson in here for us.
SPEAKER_01: I'll give you some scriptures in a moment, but notice all of, verse number 24, all of Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: And Jeremiah lamented.
SPEAKER_01: The lamentations of uh Jeremiah lamented for Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: They wrote songs about him, they wrote lamentations about him, all his all his deeds.
SPEAKER_01: God records it in verse 26 all his goodness, all that he had done, all that he had accomplished.
SPEAKER_01: And now at 39 years old, he he was dead because he meddled.
SPEAKER_01: He meddled.
SPEAKER_01: Brother and I, when I read this, it's almost like stunning.
SPEAKER_01: Like you're quiet right now.
SPEAKER_01: Like, look what he did.
SPEAKER_01: Look who he was, look what he cleaned up, look, look what he gave money to clean up, if you would, the house of God to obey the commandments of God.
SPEAKER_01: And and and God, if you would, spoke to him through Hilkiah.
SPEAKER_01: And and may I say to you that he kept a Passover like nobody had kept since the days of Samuel.
SPEAKER_01: And uh Nico said, I didn't come to war with you.
SPEAKER_01: Don't don't get involved in something that's not pertaining to you.
SPEAKER_01: Don't meddle.
SPEAKER_01: Don't get involved in something that God has told me to do.
SPEAKER_01: Brother, I want to say this to you.
SPEAKER_01: Please listen to me.
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes uh we have to be careful that we think we know what God's doing.
SPEAKER_01: We think we understand all that God's doing and we compare it to our lives.
SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you, God's doing things way above our lives, way above our experiences.
SPEAKER_01: And there's certain things God may say that doesn't pertain to you, leave it alone.
SPEAKER_01: We might even judge it of wondering if God's in it or not.
SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you, it's better not to even go there in your mind.
SPEAKER_01: It's better to be humble to say, you know what, I don't know what God's doing, but if God's in it, I'm gonna leave it alone.
SPEAKER_01: I'm just gonna leave it alone.
SPEAKER_01: Because when God builds his kingdom, he might not do it just the way you would do it.
SPEAKER_01: He might not do it just the way I would do it, but that doesn't mean he's not doing it through those people.
SPEAKER_01: Niko was an Egyptian, but he said, I'm coming here.
SPEAKER_01: God has told me to come here to do this, and I have nothing to do with you, stay out of it.
SPEAKER_01: Just stay out of it.
SPEAKER_01: Don't meddle with what I'm doing, what God told me to do.
SPEAKER_01: But uh Josiah wouldn't forbear.
SPEAKER_01: Needless, nevertheless, he disguised himself.
SPEAKER_01: Well, they shot, and they shot him, and he went back and died.
SPEAKER_01: What a what a time for him to die at 39 years old because he didn't take the advice of somebody.
SPEAKER_01: You say, but the advice came from a king of Egypt, brethren, he had no business, uh, it didn't pertain to him.
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_01: Uh we need to be careful about being busybodies.
SPEAKER_01: Would you agree with that?
SPEAKER_01: You say, I come here on Mother's Day night, and you're telling me, look, he did so many things right, and then it's stunning.
SPEAKER_01: And God says, now I'm gonna write this about him.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna tell you how he finished his life.
SPEAKER_01: He got involved in something that had nothing to do with what he should be involved with.
SPEAKER_01: He should have focused on what he was doing and stayed focused on that.
SPEAKER_01: He was doing great up until that time.
SPEAKER_01: But he got involved with something he should have never got involved with.
SPEAKER_01: Uh let me give you the Proverbs on it.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Proverbs 26, please.
SPEAKER_01: Proverbs chapter number 26.
SPEAKER_01: And I have no reason really to preach this tonight other than I'm supposed to preach it.
SPEAKER_01: Well, you say, what, what, what, what'd you just say?
SPEAKER_01: I have no reason to preach this tonight other than I'm supposed to preach it.
SPEAKER_01: Proverbs chapter 26.
SPEAKER_01: Uh, here's uh a scripture that I hope will bear out.
SPEAKER_01: Look at verse 17.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 17.
SPEAKER_01: He that passed by.
SPEAKER_01: He that passeth by.
SPEAKER_01: So we happen by something, and there's strife.
SPEAKER_01: He that passed by and meddleth with strife, belonging not to him.
SPEAKER_01: It's like one that taketh a dog by the ears.
SPEAKER_01: Now, brethren, I I I I am not a great theologian, but I understand that.
SPEAKER_01: Did you ever take uh a dog by the ears that's a calm dog and grab the dog by the ears and get sniffed at a little bit?
SPEAKER_01: Get bit a little bit?
SPEAKER_01: Do you know what I'm talking about or not?
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all know what I'm talking about?
SPEAKER_01: You take a nice calm dog and grab him by the ears, and some dogs don't like their ears grabbed.
SPEAKER_01: Now, some you can, you know, ruffle up in the ears, but I want to tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: He says if you pass by something and you meddle with strife that doesn't belong to you, it's like taking a dog by the ears, and don't be surprised when you get bit.
SPEAKER_01: What he's saying is you didn't have to get bit.
SPEAKER_01: All you had to do was pass on by and leave that dog alone.
SPEAKER_01: Like you ever say, uh, I got I I don't have a dog in that fight.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not involved with that.
SPEAKER_01: Uh hey, you'll hear stuff in Christianity.
SPEAKER_01: Best to say, no, don't, I'm not involved with that.
SPEAKER_01: I don't have to contend with anything there.
SPEAKER_01: It's not threatening, it's not something that I need to be involved with.
SPEAKER_01: It's just some stuff, some personalities, some things going on, some things that I probably don't understand.
SPEAKER_01: And who knows if God's involved with it or not.
SPEAKER_01: You see, on the internet, you can get on that stuff and get involved with stuff and read stuff that doesn't involve you.
SPEAKER_01: You said, I'm not involved.
SPEAKER_01: If you let it into your mind, you're involved.
SPEAKER_01: And it's better just to let some of that stuff go, would you agree?
SPEAKER_01: I bring you uh the case of Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: I bring you the case of Josiah at 39 years of age.
SPEAKER_01: I bring you the case of Josiah, who Nico said, Leave me alone, I didn't come to war with you.
SPEAKER_01: This is not a matter that pertains to you.
SPEAKER_01: And God says, I want to record something, Josiah nevertheless didn't listen.
SPEAKER_01: And somebody shot an arrow and nailed him.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to say he died premature because it's none of my business.
SPEAKER_01: There's some other scriptures that maybe point to something that God did, but I want to say to you, uh, there's a lesson in there for us.
SPEAKER_01: Why should I want my family involved in something that doesn't pertain to us?
SPEAKER_01: That's why that's why it's better not to talk about matters that don't pertain to us.
SPEAKER_01: It's better not even to know the matters.
SPEAKER_01: If you don't know the matters, then you can't talk about them.
SPEAKER_01: Are you still with me or not?
SPEAKER_01: Say nobody ever tells me nothing.
SPEAKER_01: What a blessing.
SPEAKER_01: Nobody ever tells me nothing.
SPEAKER_01: Let me tell you the flip aside of something.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody always tells me everything.
SPEAKER_01: Look, if everybody always tells me everything, I got a problem.
SPEAKER_01: I'm a magnet and an attraction to people who want to gossip.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, is that right?
SPEAKER_01: I hope people don't tell me anything, especially if I can't do anything about it.
SPEAKER_01: I don't just need to hear this and hear that.
SPEAKER_01: Now, if it's something important dealing with the church or management, then I want to know about it.
SPEAKER_01: But may I say to you, there's certain things, it's like, hey, look, that's that's not my business.
SPEAKER_01: Well, don't you want to know about that?
SPEAKER_01: Can I do anything about it?
SPEAKER_01: Well, not really.
SPEAKER_01: Well, then, no, I don't want to know anything about it.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because I don't want to get bit.
SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is not gonna bite you.
SPEAKER_01: How do you know how it's gonna affect my mind?
SPEAKER_01: Come on, are you still with me or not?
SPEAKER_01: Brother, you hear something and it'll creep up on you three days later and you go, Oh man, I wish I wouldn't have known that.
SPEAKER_01: Then it'll be with you for five days and you say, Man, I just wish I didn't know that.
SPEAKER_01: I was having a good time of it.
SPEAKER_01: Now I got my brain's wrapped around something I just wish I didn't know.
SPEAKER_01: Because if I'm not careful, I'm Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: What?
SPEAKER_01: If I'm not careful, I'll get Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: It'll get me before it's time.
SPEAKER_01: 39 years old wasn't very old.
SPEAKER_01: Especially somebody who had the track record that he had.
SPEAKER_01: He took a dog by the ears and got bit.
SPEAKER_01: In fact, look a little further with me.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody all right tonight?
SPEAKER_01: Look at Proverbs chapter number 20.
SPEAKER_01: You say, what a what a what a message for Sunday Night Mother's Day.
SPEAKER_01: I know.
SPEAKER_01: Proverbs chapter 20.
SPEAKER_01: Look what it says in Proverbs 20 with the principle, verse 3.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 3, you're doing great.
SPEAKER_01: It's an honor for a man to cease from strife.
SPEAKER_01: Well, look, if it's an honor for a man to cease from strife, then it's dishonoring to meddle into strife.
SPEAKER_01: It's an honor for a man to cease from strife, but every fool will be meddling.
SPEAKER_01: Brother, now, if God says it's a foolish thing to meddle, we ought to think about that.
SPEAKER_01: Especially if somebody just says, now, uh, I know you're not involved, but this is for prayer.
SPEAKER_01: Now, now that can be good, or that can be a smokescreen.
SPEAKER_01: Now there's nothing wrong with praying.
SPEAKER_01: But brother, some of this stuff is like, man, how many prayer requests that deal with strife are you gonna give me?
SPEAKER_01: You know what I'm talking about or not?
SPEAKER_01: Well, I heard this, let's pray for that.
SPEAKER_01: Or I heard this, let's pray for that.
SPEAKER_01: All right, did you hear this?
SPEAKER_01: Let's pray for that.
SPEAKER_01: Did you hear this over there?
SPEAKER_01: That's not even part of what, but let's pray for that.
SPEAKER_01: Let's hear it, let's pray for that.
SPEAKER_01: Sooner or later, you gotta realize you're dealing with a busybody.
SPEAKER_01: If they just keep bringing strife situations to you and strife and strife and strife and strife and strife, sooner or later, ding ding ding, it should relate to you.
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna get bit.
SPEAKER_01: This is a busybody prayer request.
SPEAKER_01: It just never stops.
SPEAKER_01: So I need to be careful of that.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: Because it's an honor for every man to cease from strife.
SPEAKER_01: Notice what it says about the king.
SPEAKER_01: Stay with me, we're almost done.
SPEAKER_01: Ecclesiastes chapter four.
SPEAKER_01: Am I all right tonight?
SPEAKER_01: Hey, brother, if we're on the right side of this, you can say amen.
SPEAKER_01: I mean, really, if you're on the right side, you can say amen.
SPEAKER_01: Or you can say, okay, I need to be careful about this situation.
SPEAKER_01: What?
SPEAKER_01: It may not even be in our church, it could be in your workplace, it could be across the country, it could be, hey, every family, extended family situation, you don't have to be involved with.
SPEAKER_01: Some of y'all have big extended families.
SPEAKER_01: There's some of that stuff.
SPEAKER_01: You want to just say, Well, nothing I can do with that.
SPEAKER_01: Well, don't you want to know?
SPEAKER_01: Well, kind of, but kind of not.
SPEAKER_01: Because it just seems like you keep bringing junk to me about people.
SPEAKER_01: And it shapes my opinion about them.
SPEAKER_01: And I don't want to know.
SPEAKER_01: I want to have a good walk with God.
SPEAKER_01: And knowing some of that stuff, it's just like a soap opera.
SPEAKER_01: Scripted by the devil.
SPEAKER_01: Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 4, it pertains to Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: Look at verse 4, uh, Ecclesiastes 4, look at verse 13.
SPEAKER_01: A better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king who will no more be admonished.
SPEAKER_01: Now let me clarify, Josiah was not old.
SPEAKER_01: He's 39.
SPEAKER_01: But I gotta tell you, he was foolish.
SPEAKER_01: And he couldn't be admonished.
SPEAKER_01: You say you're judging Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry I am.
SPEAKER_01: You say he wasn't old.
SPEAKER_01: No, he's 39.
SPEAKER_01: But he was foolish.
SPEAKER_01: He shouldn't he should have listened to Nico when Nico said, Stay out of this.
SPEAKER_01: My beef is not with you.
SPEAKER_01: That was an admonishment.
SPEAKER_01: Because he got involved with something that other people followed him.
SPEAKER_01: Well, what was the end result?
SPEAKER_01: Jeremiah lamented.
SPEAKER_01: The lamentations, the singers lamented.
SPEAKER_01: It demoralized the country for a while when Josiah died unexpectedly, and then if you look after him, there was no good king.
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SPEAKER_01: You still with me or not?
SPEAKER_01: After him, he was the last good king.
SPEAKER_01: It went downhill from then severely.
SPEAKER_01: Manasseh, keep going, Jehoiakim.
SPEAKER_01: Jehoiachin, keep going.
SPEAKER_01: The idea was the lamentations came because God was taking his hand off of uh off of that nation at that time.
SPEAKER_01: Josiah was that last one.
SPEAKER_01: If he would have been admonished, maybe he would have lasted a little bit longer.
SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe God had a plan on the whole thing, but the lesson is very clear.
SPEAKER_01: One more scripture.
SPEAKER_01: Look over at 1 Peter, just so you know we read the New Testament around here.
SPEAKER_01: 1 Peter chapter number 4.
SPEAKER_01: Everybody still good?
SPEAKER_01: I'm just saying tonight, let's be careful.
SPEAKER_01: Let's go out of here and say, hey, let's be careful.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be careful, uh, married couple.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be careful, family.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be careful, teenager.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be careful, young adult.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, do I know something?
SPEAKER_01: Okay, I do, but do I need to pass it on?
SPEAKER_01: Not necessarily.
SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's time to just leave that right there and leave it alone.
SPEAKER_01: Look at 1 Peter chapter number 4.
SPEAKER_01: Watch this scripture.
SPEAKER_01: It's very interesting.
SPEAKER_01: Last scripture.
SPEAKER_01: Verse 15.
SPEAKER_01: But let none of you suffer as a what?
SPEAKER_01: Or a what?
SPEAKER_01: Busybody in other men's matters.
SPEAKER_01: What's interesting there is the classification of busybody is in the classification of murderer.
SPEAKER_01: It's in the classification of thief.
SPEAKER_01: It's in the classification of evildoer.
SPEAKER_01: So evidently, God's not that impressed with busybodies.
SPEAKER_01: We just think of busybody, like in 1 Timothy, as a tattler.
SPEAKER_01: Somebody that goes around and just has a loose lips and mouth and just talks a lot about people's matters.
SPEAKER_01: It's a little bit more than that.
SPEAKER_01: In this case, God categorizes a busybody in other men's matters as a in the same category as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer.
SPEAKER_01: So in our minds, in our minds, the uh the wrongdoing of a busybody, it should get like it's really wrong.
SPEAKER_01: It's in the classification of murderer.
SPEAKER_01: It's in the classification of thief.
SPEAKER_01: Thief violates.
SPEAKER_01: Thieves take something that's not theirs.
SPEAKER_01: There's a violation when you get stolen something that's valuable.
SPEAKER_01: You feel violated.
SPEAKER_01: Evildoer.
SPEAKER_01: And then God says busybody.
SPEAKER_01: In other men's matters.
SPEAKER_01: What's implied there is that don't pertain to you.
SPEAKER_01: We still okay with that?
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, the evidently the busybody classification would grieve the spirit of God.
SPEAKER_01: Do I have a wrong spirit tonight?
SPEAKER_01: We should not get in our cars and talk about busybody matters on the way from church.
SPEAKER_01: It just grieves the spirit.
SPEAKER_01: It'd be better to be silent.
SPEAKER_01: What's wrong?
SPEAKER_01: Did I do anything?
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm just being silent.
SPEAKER_01: Don't you want to talk about busybody stuff?
SPEAKER_01: No, not tonight.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, this phone's a wonderful thing, but too much texting about busybody matters can mess things up.
SPEAKER_01: Did you hear?
SPEAKER_01: Well, I have to be careful about that.
SPEAKER_01: It's so easy to forward stuff.
SPEAKER_01: That doesn't pertain to other people.
SPEAKER_01: I've probably been guilty too.
SPEAKER_01: But the Holy Ghost should convict us, and we ought to listen to that conviction.
SPEAKER_01: It ought to be conscience.
SPEAKER_01: Wrong.
SPEAKER_01: Stop it.
SPEAKER_01: Busybody, evildoer, murderer, thief.
SPEAKER_01: Dogs.
SPEAKER_01: Ears.
SPEAKER_01: Biting.
SPEAKER_01: Josiah.
SPEAKER_01: 39.
SPEAKER_01: Did a great job.
SPEAKER_01: Eight.
SPEAKER_01: Sixteen.
SPEAKER_01: Twenty-six.
SPEAKER_01: Died at thirty-nine.
SPEAKER_01: Lamentations.
SPEAKER_01: From there on out, problems.
SPEAKER_01: Busybodying can ruin families.
SPEAKER_01: Busybodying can split up marriages.
SPEAKER_01: Busybodying can split churches.
SPEAKER_01: Say amen right there.
SPEAKER_01: It's true.
SPEAKER_01: I realize it's Mother's Day night, but brethren, let's be honest down here.
SPEAKER_01: We don't want to get before the Lord and suffer loss because we got involved in somebody's weakness.
SPEAKER_01: What do you mean, weakness?
SPEAKER_01: They weren't mentally disciplined and strong enough to stay out of other people's matters, and they drug us in, and we weren't strong enough to say our friendship only goes so far.
SPEAKER_01: I'm not getting involved in that.
SPEAKER_01: It's not my place.
SPEAKER_01: I believe the book, and the way I read that is we're involved in too much in our conversation, and that needs to stop.
SPEAKER_01: We're still friends.
SPEAKER_01: But let's have a walk with the Holy Ghost and not be involved with that.
SPEAKER_01: Because it's not right.
SPEAKER_01: And it falls in the category of murder, thief, evildoer, and God says busybody and other men's matter.
SPEAKER_01: We're going to get by the dog, and we we should be admonished.
SPEAKER_01: We should be not like old and foolish.
SPEAKER_01: We should be correctable.
SPEAKER_01: We should be able to listen to this.
SPEAKER_01: This is not a big amening message, but I think it's an important message.
SPEAKER_01: If nothing else, it's a reminder.
SPEAKER_01: Certain things at work pertain to me.
SPEAKER_01: Certain things around the water cooler don't.
SPEAKER_01: Certain emails pertain to me.
SPEAKER_01: Certain other emails, I don't need to see.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to know.
SPEAKER_01: Did you hear about what's going on in such and such a place?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Do you want to know?
SPEAKER_01: No.
SPEAKER_01: Why not?
SPEAKER_01: I got enough on my plate.
SPEAKER_01: Without getting bit by some other dog with ears that I shouldn't be touching.
SPEAKER_01: Oh no, but that dog's mild, calm.
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to worry about that.
SPEAKER_01: Look, you ever see a child take a dog by the ears and didn't know and get sniffed at?
SPEAKER_01: Even a mild-mannered dog.
SPEAKER_01: Well, some of those matters, even mild-mannered people, it can bite us.
SPEAKER_01: And we ought to be careful not to grieve the Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_01: So welcome to Mother's Day Sunday night.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, if our hearts are right, we can go out of here and say that's that was a good reminder.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be careful what we talk about.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be here careful about what we're hearing.
SPEAKER_01: Let's be careful about internet sites that are busybody sites.
SPEAKER_01: Because some sites are just busybody sites.
SPEAKER_01: In other men's matters that don't pertain.
SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you something.
SPEAKER_01: Some of those sites do not have truth on them.
SPEAKER_01: They do not have truth on them.
SPEAKER_01: They think they have truth on them, but they don't.
SPEAKER_01: In their minds, they do, and in their minds, they're the police for God.
SPEAKER_01: They're being the police people for God.
SPEAKER_01: We're policing things.
SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01: They're busybodying things.
SPEAKER_01: They're talking about things that Proverbs tells you shouldn't even be talked about, shouldn't even be mentioned amongst the saints.
SPEAKER_01: Oh no, I'm not in trouble with God.
SPEAKER_01: Brethren, we don't know what God's withholding, withholding in power.
SPEAKER_01: Because we get involved in things that don't pertain to us.
SPEAKER_01: It's amazing when I go somewhere overseas and they know about matters going on back in the States, and I think, how did you know about that?
SPEAKER_01: Oh, well, didn't you read this?
SPEAKER_01: No, who's that?
SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's so-and-so.
SPEAKER_01: You don't read that?
SPEAKER_01: No, who's that guy?
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know that guy.
SPEAKER_01: Really?
SPEAKER_01: You don't know that guy?
SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
SPEAKER_01: I'm thinking, why do you know him?
SPEAKER_01: And why do you know something going on in North Dakota?
SPEAKER_01: You don't even know where North Dakota is.
SPEAKER_01: If I said to them in several places, where's North Dakota?
SPEAKER_01: They said, uh, I don't know, is it near Florida?
SPEAKER_01: Just like I don't need to know what's going on in different places in Thailand or in the middle of Australia or down in South America that don't pertain to me.
SPEAKER_01: Why do I want to know that?
SPEAKER_01: I want to keep a good spirit with the Lord.
SPEAKER_01: Come on, you still with me?
SPEAKER_01: So that's the message tonight.
SPEAKER_01: I hope nobody feels like, oh man, he's talking about this.
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm not.
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know about that.
SPEAKER_01: No, no, this.
SPEAKER_01: No, no, I don't know about that either.
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to know about it.
SPEAKER_01: Would you tell me if you know?
SPEAKER_01: No, I wouldn't tell you.
SPEAKER_01: Why?
SPEAKER_01: I'd rather have my wife saying, you don't tell me anything.
SPEAKER_01: I tell her there are things that are important.
SPEAKER_01: We got other things to talk about, like family and vacations, and trips, and plans, and housing renovation.
SPEAKER_01: We don't need to talk about busybody stuff.
SPEAKER_01: It'd be better to be quiet.
SPEAKER_01: Talk about that junk.
SPEAKER_01: Go home and talk about your vacation.
SPEAKER_01: Say, I'm not planning a vacation.
SPEAKER_01: Well, go plan one.
SPEAKER_01: Be better than talking about somebody else's matters that don't pertain to us.
SPEAKER_01: Did I get the picture right?
SPEAKER_01: Let's not be Josiah and have a great, great walk with the Lord, great life, and at 39 years old, get involved in a battle that's not even ours, and get shot and wounded where Jeremiah has to lament.
SPEAKER_01: And then there's a lamentations.
SPEAKER_01: My goodness.
SPEAKER_00: And after that, 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.lighthousebaptist.com or call six one nine-461-5561.