WEBVTT 00:00:00.719 --> 00:00:02.399 1 Samuel chapter 14. 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:05.599 After you've been a parent for a while, you do grow eyes in the back of your head. 00:00:05.759 --> 00:00:06.000 Amen? 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:08.080 First Samuel chapter 14. 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:09.119 We got everybody in? 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:16.719 I'm gonna give you something uh probably a little bit short tonight, but I think you'll see the point in where we're at as a church. 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:19.359 And thank you for being in church on this three-day weekend. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:21.440 I I don't know if you have to work tomorrow or not. 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.239 If you have the time, spend a little time with God in the morning. 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.239 If you don't have to work, and uh make sure you take some time, family, or whatever else. 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:30.640 First Samuel chapter 14 tonight. 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:33.200 We had a good morning this morning. 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:39.520 And uh you know, uh interesting testimony is uh is Chris here tonight, Chris Wiseman? 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:40.960 Are you here anywhere, Brother Chris? 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:42.399 I don't know if you're huh. 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:44.479 Oh yeah, brother Chris. 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.399 Hey, listen, uh Brother Chris, I'm gonna let you get nervous. 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:51.280 I want you to come in just a little while and give a little testimony. 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:52.240 All right? 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:53.679 You plan on that, all right? 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:56.320 And uh wherever that other microphone, we'll get that real quick. 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.520 Uh, brother Chris has an interesting testimony. 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:01.679 Any salvation is interesting, amen? 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:04.319 Look at 1 Samuel chapter 14. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:05.280 Look at verse 1. 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:15.920 It came to pass upon a day that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said unto the young man that bare his armor, come and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison that is on the other side. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.159 Uh, but he told not his father. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:21.200 Look at verse 6, if you would, of 1 Samuel 14. 00:01:21.439 --> 00:01:30.159 And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, come and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised. 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:32.239 It What's the next two words? 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:33.359 Maybe. 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:36.079 Sounds like there was uh some unsurety there. 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.040 He said, It may be that the Lord will work for us. 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:51.760 I don't know if it was so much unsurety, other than he was probably understanding to his armor-bearer, I'm not sure how the Lord's gonna work for us, but I believe he's going to work for us. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.840 For there is no strength restraint to the Lord to save by what? 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:57.840 Many or by what? 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.799 Hey, little is much when God is in it, amen? 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:08.000 The idea here was the leader said to the follower, listen, now, it may be that the Lord will work for us. 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.199 I'm not sure exactly, follower, how this is all gonna work out, but I want you to know something. 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:14.879 There's something to know about the Lord. 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:20.560 It doesn't take a lot, it doesn't take many to get something going for God. 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:24.800 It can just be a few, and right now, armor better, it's me and you. 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:33.199 I want to talk to you just a couple minutes tonight about a relationship here between a leader and a follower, and a follower and a leader. 00:02:33.360 --> 00:02:34.240 Look at verse 7. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:39.039 And his armor bearer said unto him, Do all that is in where? 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:40.400 Thine heart. 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:41.599 Turn thee. 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:43.439 Behold, I am what? 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.439 I'm with thee according to whose heart. 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:51.680 The follower said to the leader, Listen, I trust you, leader. 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:55.039 I'm with you according to what's in your heart. 00:02:55.199 --> 00:02:59.680 The way God's leading you, I'll tell you what, I'll follow your faith. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:02.800 Whose faith follow, amen? 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:10.240 Hey, you ladies in here that are married to men that are doing something for the Lord, you don't know how much respect I have for you. 00:03:10.879 --> 00:03:15.759 Because you have to be submissive to his heart's leading of the Lord. 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:18.560 I have a lot of respect for Sarah in the Bible. 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.240 God said to Abraham, get up and go. 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:26.960 I'm not gonna tell you where you're going, just get up and get away from your kindred. 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:30.800 Now, you've got to think about that for a minute. 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:32.159 Where are we going? 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:33.280 Don't know. 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:34.960 How long are we gonna be there? 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:36.080 Don't know. 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:37.599 How are we gonna get there? 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:38.800 Don't know. 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:40.479 All right, I'll go with you. 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:43.439 And Sarah went, amen. 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:46.240 I got a lot of respect for Sarah. 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:48.719 She followed the faith of her husband. 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:54.719 And what this follower here does, this armor bearer, he says, hey, whatever God's put in your heart, I'm with you. 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.280 I'm gonna follow you, I'll follow your leading. 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:01.199 He said, Hey, I know we don't know exactly what's gonna happen, but I'm in. 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:13.840 Now, if you know anything about leadership and followership, if you're a follower in a church that's doing something for God, sooner or later a leader's gonna stand up and say, I don't know exactly how it's gonna work out, but I believe God's gonna do it. 00:04:14.719 --> 00:04:17.199 Somewhere along the line, you've got to buy in by faith. 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:17.680 Amen. 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:21.759 Then said Jonathan, behold, here's the plan. 00:04:22.319 --> 00:04:24.639 We will pass over unto these men. 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:25.839 Here's what we're gonna do. 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.000 We're gonna discover ourselves unto them. 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:31.120 We're gonna stand up and we're gonna say, Hey, here we are. 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.439 They're gonna put themselves at risk. 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:38.240 Okay, now here's the plan. 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:47.040 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you, then we'll stand still in our place, and we'll not go up unto them. 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:53.040 But if they say thus, come up unto us, then we will go up. 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:57.439 For the Lord hath delivered them into our hand, and this shall be a sign unto us. 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.240 Remember when he said, It may be the Lord will work for us? 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.680 You see, this leader doesn't know exactly how it's going to work. 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:05.519 He just wants something to happen. 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:10.240 And he says to the father, listen, if it happens this way, then we'll do this. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:12.720 If it doesn't happen that way and they say this, then we'll do this. 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:13.839 And you know what I like about that? 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:14.639 Honesty. 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:17.279 I like leadership that's honest. 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:20.639 Hey, if you're a if you're a husband here, be honest with your wife. 00:05:21.120 --> 00:05:22.079 Tell her the truth. 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:23.199 Tell her sometimes. 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:24.639 I don't know what I'm doing. 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:27.759 I don't know how it's all gonna work out, but I believe God's in it. 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:29.040 Amen. 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:32.319 You parents sometimes, you've got to be honest with your children. 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.839 You gotta tell the children sometimes, I don't know how it's gonna work out. 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:38.079 You pray and let God work it out. 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:41.680 The armor bearer bought into the whole thing. 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:44.560 He said, All right, man, I uh I'm with you, Jonathan. 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:46.240 Let's go get it done. 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.480 God sent them two by two. 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:53.600 Uh you think about uh Gideon. 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.399 Well, he said, Okay, I uh I'm still a little afraid. 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:57.519 Who's gonna go down with me? 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:59.600 Furah went down. 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:00.560 Two by two. 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:04.160 When God sent those apostles out, he sent them two by two. 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.720 Priscilla and Aquila, two by two. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:11.680 God's excited about two by two, but often in two by two, look up here. 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:13.199 Someone's the leader. 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:16.319 And someone's the follower. 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.120 It's hard to have two leaders. 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:22.399 And it's hard to have two followers. 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:26.319 There has to be an Elisha or Elijah and Elisha. 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:28.959 There has to be a Moses and there has to be a Joshua. 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:29.920 Are you listening to me? 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.519 Hey, by the way, you say, Well, you're pastor, you're just always the leader. 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:34.160 Oh no. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:34.959 You don't understand. 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:38.800 The last couple of weeks with the lady's banquet, I've been the follower. 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:41.199 You say, who's been the leader? 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:50.079 The one who's seven months with child. 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:51.600 So, what'd you do? 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:52.959 I just said, hey, I'll help you. 00:06:53.199 --> 00:06:54.000 What do you need? 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:55.439 How can I help you? 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:57.360 Amen. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:04.319 Hey, it takes a leader and it takes a follower, and sometimes you reverse roles even the marriage. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:05.920 Oh. 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:09.680 Did I say it now? 00:07:09.759 --> 00:07:10.319 You know what? 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:14.639 I appreciate the men in this church that have let their wives be leaders. 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:21.680 They sacrifice to let those wives be leaders. 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:24.560 I'll name names. 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:26.319 Melissa Northcutt. 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:29.680 Scotty sacrifices so she can be a leader of our nursery. 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:30.879 Phil Burks. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.399 Phil sacrifices as Mary leads in that beginner's department. 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:36.319 I could go on and on and on. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:42.560 Sometimes there's times when the men are following to support the leadership in the area of her wife. 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:44.399 You say, oh, never like that. 00:07:44.560 --> 00:07:46.800 Then you're hindering what God can do in your team. 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:47.920 Amen. 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:48.720 Say it. 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.920 But there has to be leadership and there has to be followership. 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:55.279 By the way, if you're ever going to be a good leader, you've got to learn to be a good follower. 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:58.720 So the follower says, All right, well, let's do it. 00:07:58.879 --> 00:07:59.839 Two by two. 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:03.279 Verse 11. 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:05.439 And what's the next word? 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:06.560 Booth. 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:07.199 That's two. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:08.319 Not one. 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:10.720 Okay, you stand up and then I'll stand up. 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:11.759 Alright, ready? 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:12.160 Ready? 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:12.959 You ready? 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:18.879 No, they just both stood up together and discovered themselves into the garrison of the Philistines. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:26.079 And the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they have hid themselves. 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:29.839 Now listen, you've got to know right here, God resisteth the proud. 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.320 He giveth grace unto the who? 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:33.360 The humble. 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:39.919 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, What are the next two words? 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:41.039 What? 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:43.600 Come up! You know what that was? 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:46.320 That was like God saying, Here we go, boys. 00:08:46.799 --> 00:08:47.759 Remember what he said? 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.879 If they say, Come up, we're going after them. 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:54.080 And the first thing they say is, Come up. 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.200 That's like the shaking of the mulberry trees. 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:03.679 That's like the little hand that looked like in the shape of a cloud, a little hand, like rain coming. 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:08.559 That's like Gideon hearing the sword of the Lord and Gideon. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:12.000 That's like saying, go, green light. 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:13.279 It's on, amen? 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.240 And by the way, every once in a while as leaders, we need that. 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:17.679 Oh, I know, I know. 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:19.039 We don't seek after a sign. 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:20.080 You liar. 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:24.080 Every once in a while we say, God, show me something. 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:25.679 Make sure I see it. 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:26.960 Show me that it's real. 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:30.960 You start going off to the mission field and you'll say, God, I need to know for sure. 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:32.559 You need to show me something. 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:36.159 I've got to know that this is what you want me to do with my family. 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:40.399 Hey, brother, we didn't just come to this building without knowing God's in it. 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:47.919 You don't do things haphazardly when you got five, six, seven, eight hundred people and their potential for the Lord leaning on it. 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:49.600 You can't make a lot of mistakes. 00:09:49.679 --> 00:09:52.159 So you say, God, I need to see something from you. 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.320 I'm not talking about handwriting on the wall. 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:58.000 I just need to know that you're gonna be in this thing that we're trying to do. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:09:58.799 Amen. 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:03.919 So he says, All right, they say, Come up to us and we will show you a thing. 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:09.440 And Jonathan said unto his armor bearer, come up after me. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:11.519 Now I'll make a statement to you. 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:14.159 The leader can't do it without the follower. 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:17.120 And the follower can't do it without the leader. 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:17.679 That's right. 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:22.320 You get in this thing long enough and you're a leader, you can't do it without followers. 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:22.799 That's right. 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:25.840 And follow, you can't do it without good leaders. 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:28.480 It's both very necessary. 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:32.399 Or if you're in business, it takes leadership, it takes followship. 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:35.919 If you're in ministry, it takes leadership, it takes followership. 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:37.840 Both are vitally important. 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.759 Come up after me, for the Lord hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:43.120 And verse 13. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.320 And Jonathan climbed up upon what? 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.600 His hands and upon his feet. 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:51.360 Brethren, uh, you know what? 00:10:51.600 --> 00:10:54.399 It was rough going just to get to the battle. 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.240 Have you ever noticed that? 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:01.840 I mean, they had to climb on his hands and feet just to get where they could start swinging the sword. 00:11:02.159 --> 00:11:03.759 May I say something to you? 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:08.240 If you've ever been around this church, there is a battle before the battle. 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:12.000 There's a battle coming before you ever get to the big day. 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.000 You're going to do something for God in a big way? 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:18.399 You may as well plan on there's going to be a battle before you ever get to the field. 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:22.480 There's going to be a battle before you ever get to the place where you can start swinging the sword. 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.360 There's a battle sometimes just to go soul winning. 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.000 There's a battle just to get to church sometimes. 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:31.759 There's a battle to get to the bus ministry sometimes. 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:33.440 There's a battle to get to the ministry. 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:34.799 There's a battle to get to the Spanish. 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.279 There's a battle leading up to the big day. 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:41.840 It's coming. 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:43.120 It's on. 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:51.120 So they climb upon their hands and their feet. 00:11:53.919 --> 00:11:57.919 And his armor bearer after him. 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.559 And they fell before Jonathan. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.080 And his armor bearer slew after him. 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:05.679 Make a statement. 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.919 They both gave each other courage. 00:12:11.840 --> 00:12:14.559 Hey, you know, two by two is a good way to go. 00:12:15.519 --> 00:12:17.759 The one encourages the other. 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.000 The leader encourages the follower, the father encourages the leader. 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.799 The leader gives courage to the follower, the father gives courage to the leader. 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:34.240 The leader gives momentum to the follower, and the follower, because he's faithful, gives momentum to the leader. 00:12:34.799 --> 00:12:35.440 Amen? 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:44.799 And that and that first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about how many men? 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:46.000 How many? 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:46.480 Say it. 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:48.480 Twenty men. 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:49.519 You know what? 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:55.679 Remember what he said that there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few? 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:03.759 Two men slew twenty men, within as it was a half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plough. 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.559 Look if you would at verse 15. 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:16.799 And there was a trembling in the host, in the field, among all the people, the garrison and the spoilers. 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:18.879 They also trembled. 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:20.320 This is the Philistines. 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.000 And the earthquaked. 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.840 So it was a very great trembling. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.799 And the watchman of Saul and Gibe of Benjamin looked, and behold, what was going on? 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:34.240 The multitude melted away. 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:35.360 What do you mean? 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:40.639 Hey, the Philistines began to withdraw, and they went on beating down one another. 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:41.679 Huh. 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:43.279 Isn't that interesting? 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.200 Look if you would at verse 20. 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:52.480 And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle, and behold, every man's sword was against his fellow. 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:57.840 Hey, the Philistines, brother, were fighting each other now, and they were melting away and they were destroying each other. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:59.600 There was a very great discomfort. 00:13:59.759 --> 00:14:10.720 Moreover, the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp of the country round about, watch it, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan. 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:19.279 Likewise, all the men of Israel, when they, which had hid themselves in the Mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle. 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:20.639 You say, what's going on? 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:31.360 Jonathan, please look up here, and his armor bearer went up together by faith, in risk, did God's work, killed 20 guys, and God was moved to move more. 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:32.080 That's right. 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:32.559 Amen. 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:37.120 Sometimes it doesn't take a whole big, great deal to move God. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:38.879 Sometimes, brother, look up here. 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.960 It's just a mustard seed faith. 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:42.639 It's a little thing. 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:44.559 It's a little thing somebody does. 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:46.159 It's a little thing two people do. 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:47.919 It's a little thing a ministry does. 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:50.720 It's some efforts, it's prayer, it's faith. 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:56.480 And something happens, and guys start uh doing something for God, and ladies start doing something for God. 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:09.360 And God says, I like what's going on down there, and it begins to tremble, the whole host and the field, and the earth begins to shake, and the Philistines begin to draw back, and they start killing each other, and God says, I'm in this thing now. 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:10.720 You know what it took? 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:13.279 Just two men that said, Let's do it together. 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:16.159 Just two men, just two people. 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:18.960 Huh. 00:15:19.519 --> 00:15:20.879 Well, you know what happens? 00:15:21.120 --> 00:15:23.039 Success breeds success. 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:35.279 And verse 20, all the people start, hey, we can do this thing, and they're where they were hidden away, they all start coming out and they assemble and they start picking up their swords and they start charging after these Philistines. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:37.360 Verse 23. 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:39.840 So the Lord saved Israel that day. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:40.960 Who saved Israel? 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:42.639 Who saved Israel? 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:45.120 The battle is the Lord's, isn't it? 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:46.559 Oh, yeah. 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:49.759 But God expects us to do something. 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:58.879 I'll regress a little later on, but may I say this to you? 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:08.559 One ministry in our church that gets excited for the Lord can move God in a great way. 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:16.159 Just a few people in a ministry that gets excited in soul winning. 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.840 You get excited, ladies, in our ladies' soul winning. 00:16:21.600 --> 00:16:24.240 And watch God move in a great way. 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:28.159 You get excited in that men's Saturday soul winning. 00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:30.480 Ten, fifteen, twelve men. 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:32.240 Get excited and go out. 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:33.600 See what God does. 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.399 Just a few men or ladies in the bus ministry. 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:42.240 Just a handful in the Spanish ministry. 00:16:42.720 --> 00:16:43.360 Get excited. 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.159 Watch what God does in the Spanish ministry. 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.639 We have some Spanish-speaking people here tonight. 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:50.080 Where are y'all at? 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:51.440 Hold up your hand. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:52.960 Just you right here tonight. 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:57.759 Get excited for something that God wants to do and watch what God does on the big day. 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.000 Now, if you're sitting here saying, How long is he going to say this? 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:02.960 You got a problem. 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:05.279 You got a problem. 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:06.480 You know what your problem is? 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:07.440 You're lazy. 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:13.759 If you're just sitting back and going, well, oh yeah, this is all fine, but I come to get fed. 00:17:13.920 --> 00:17:15.200 I'm feeding you. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:17.440 This Bible's feeding you. 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:18.559 Jump in somewhere. 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:20.000 Get involved with somebody. 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:21.839 Just becomes him in a wheelchair. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:23.599 It's still burning inside of me. 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:27.839 You're in the church that's on the move. 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.319 You're in the church that's pressing towards the mark. 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:32.559 And look at the changing just because you can. 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:35.920 What about changing because you can get a fifteen leaders? 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:37.440 And then you move up to your video. 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:54.480 Let me be the leader. 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:58.160 Find somebody go out with you and get going for the lord. 00:17:59.200 --> 00:18:04.720 But it could take two in the middle of the starts knocking doors, and a whole section of this city could get said. 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:10.079 I don't believe all that. 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.039 That's because you don't have faith as a grain of a mustard seed. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:20.880 I'm not putting anybody there because if you're not on that side of the fish, you're just sitting there going, you know what? 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:22.880 We don't want 20% involved. 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:24.720 We don't want 30% involved. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:26.480 We don't want 40% involved. 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:28.319 That's not our church. 00:18:28.400 --> 00:18:32.240 We have a church where 80 or 90 or 95% of the people are involved. 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:38.799 I wouldn't go that everybody got involved. 00:18:39.599 --> 00:18:43.279 Sign up, bring a turkey, serve some food, do something for God. 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:51.599 Invite somebody to church, pass out some tracks, drive a bus, be an usher, be a greener, work a parking lot, sit together, bring somebody to church. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:53.279 Do something, amen. 00:18:53.759 --> 00:18:55.920 What if God comes at the end of the year? 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.240 Well, I've been pretty faithful for the last nine years. 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.440 Yes, God has used me in a great way. 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:07.200 I think I'll sit this one out. 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:08.880 You better redeem the time. 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:11.279 Redeem all you can. 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:13.279 I'm talking to teenagers tonight. 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:14.799 I'm talking to young people tonight. 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:16.079 I'm talking to singles tonight. 00:19:16.240 --> 00:19:18.319 I'm talking to older people tonight. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:20.480 Hey, it doesn't matter your age. 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:21.759 You can invite somebody to church. 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:23.519 Get involved in this prayer. 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.480 You say, well, I can't get out as much as other people. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:31.279 Then jump in on the prayer sheet and get that 15 minutes and take two 15 minutes a day. 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:33.759 Pray for it in the morning and pray for it in the evening. 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.400 And go all the way through to the big day and see what God does. 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:38.160 You say, you know what? 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:42.000 I'm from a church that they don't they don't quite talk this loud. 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:43.119 I'm not used to this. 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:43.839 Come on. 00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:45.279 Come on. 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:46.799 All right. 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:55.839 Would you please do something for God before you die? 00:19:57.920 --> 00:19:59.440 Or before the rapture comes. 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.759 God didn't save you to be lazy. 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.480 God saved you to serve. 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:14.640 And even if you don't want to do anything else, put some money in the offering plate. 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:17.759 So others can run buses. 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.960 And others can go to military bases. 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:23.759 Pay for a postage stamp. 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:24.640 Something. 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:28.880 Are you awake up there in that balcony? 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:32.799 Hey, this is big day time, amen. 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:34.240 You say, what is this? 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:36.240 We're kicking it up into the next gear. 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:38.079 Hey, listen, I'm easy on you. 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:39.759 Wait till Glendy comes. 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:44.400 You're going to wish I was preaching again, amen. 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.720 The idea behind it, brethren, it's the times when kings go out to battle. 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:50.240 It's time to set in the battle on the way. 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:51.519 And you know what's so great about this? 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:54.319 I'm talking to 95% in here that are ready to go. 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:58.079 All you gotta do is just get wound up a bit. 00:20:58.720 --> 00:20:59.839 The potential is there. 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:02.880 Just stretch the rubber band out, get it ready to go again. 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:05.680 And let it go. 00:21:06.319 --> 00:21:07.440 You know what was a blessing? 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.839 Those sheets this morning for our turkeys and the bus and all that, they're filling up. 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:14.640 I'm expecting those prayer sheets when they get to the back. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:16.799 I'm expecting to be three-quarters of the way full. 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:18.160 We'll pass them around again, though. 00:21:18.480 --> 00:21:18.960 You know what? 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:21.519 There's committed people in this church. 00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:24.079