WEBVTT 00:00:00.479 --> 00:00:01.919 Genesis chapter 33. 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:03.839 Notice if you would verse 12. 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:06.639 Verse 12, and you're holding Nehemiah 8. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.480 And he said, Let us take our journey and let us go. 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:12.240 I will go before thee. 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:20.800 And he said unto him, My Lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and the herds are young with young are with me. 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:26.559 And if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:31.600 And I just like to talk to you because God's words here, I think, are very carefully chosen. 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:34.799 By the way, God just didn't say, hey, we've got to fill up a page in the book. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:36.399 Why don't we just throw that in there? 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:38.320 Every word is purified, amen. 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:40.320 It's in there for a purpose. 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:45.840 And he says, hey, the herds, they're with young, the ones that are with me. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.520 And we can't overdrive the flock because if we do, some of the flock will die. 00:00:51.600 --> 00:01:00.719 Now, I looked up the word overdrive, and it said this to drive too hard beyond one's strength. 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.799 You know it's possible to get too busy? 00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:17.439 It's possible to go and go and go and go and go and go and go, even if it's in ministry and be too busy and overdrive. 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:26.799 It's possible to get entangled in this world, in business, or in just the things of this world and the affairs of this life and overdrive. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:31.599 It's possible to go beyond our strength and be overdriven. 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:35.359 The thing he said here is, hey, listen, be careful not to overdrive them. 00:01:36.239 --> 00:01:39.920 It's going to hinder and disrupt and destroy the flock. 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:51.519 Now, uh, studying sheep, uh, what goes on in the morning, the sheep uh take in a lot of food, and then for the first part of the day, they'll sit and they'll they'll chew on that food and re-chew it. 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:56.000 They have multiple stomachs and they they re-chew it and meditate on that food, if you would. 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.640 And then maybe the shepherd will move them that day. 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:16.639 But he makes sure that every day those that flock has the opportunity to eat again and to lay down and rest, and then there's a balance between moving and eating, and moving and eating, and letting the growth and realizing, okay, it's not time to move. 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:18.879 Let's just let them here for a couple days. 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:20.639 They've got a tough trail ahead of them. 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:25.759 And if you watch the cycle of our church during the course of a year, that's what happens. 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:28.800 We drive and we drive and we drive and then we back off. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.919 And then we drive and we back off and we drive and we back off. 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:34.800 And your life and my life should be balanced that way. 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:43.439 We have to be careful that we don't overdrive, that we don't go beyond the strength that we've been accustomed to receiving. 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:45.599 Uh, you see, I don't understand, preacher. 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:49.599 A Christian can get so busy with the things of the Lord they can backslide. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:51.680 Let me say it again. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:58.240 A Christian can get so busy with the things of the Lord that they can backslide to overdrive and destroy themselves. 00:02:58.879 --> 00:02:59.919 Are you listening to me? 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:07.759 A Christian can get so involved with, I do this and then I do this, and I do this, and I do this, and now I just I just don't have any more time. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.000 Hey, brother, where does our strength come from? 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:11.919 Look at Nehemiah 8. 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.639 Nehemiah chapter 8. 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.680 A little scripture in here that we sing a song about, but I want you to see it in the book. 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:21.680 Nehemiah chapter 8. 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:23.520 Look at verse 10. 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:31.199 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared. 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:33.520 For this day is holy unto the Lord. 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:40.319 Neither be ye sorry, and you know this next little phrase, for the joy of the Lord is your what? 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:42.000 Is your strength. 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:48.639 Brother, now you have to understand, and I have to understand, we don't operate down here in our own strength spiritually. 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:50.400 It comes from him. 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:57.439 And if it doesn't continue to come from him, we could overdrive, go beyond what our strength is, and destroy ourselves. 00:03:57.919 --> 00:03:58.960 You say, I don't understand. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:03:59.840 You mean we'll die? 00:03:59.919 --> 00:04:03.520 No, I mean one day you'll be in church and the next day you'll be a burnout. 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:06.879 You'll be burnt out with the whole thing. 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:13.039 Now, this is very appropriate, the Sunday before to say, man, you've been pushing and pushing and pushing. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:13.599 You know what? 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:21.920 Yes, we're pushing, but with all in the way, it doesn't push our Bible reading out the side, it doesn't push our prayer life out, it doesn't push our walk with God out. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.279 There's no excuse for not having a meditation time in our day. 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:28.639 There is no excuse. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.240 You say, You don't know my schedule. 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:32.240 Hey, we don't need that much sleep. 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:33.759 Amen. 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:36.319 We don't need to read the newspaper. 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:39.120 We don't need to read the magazine. 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:40.240 We don't need to watch the TV. 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:41.920 We don't need to listen to the radio. 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.800 There's times we can find if we look for it and we know that we need that strength. 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:49.279 There's times we can find time for God. 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:53.360 If we're not careful, we'll overdrive. 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:02.800 I could go into names and illustrations. 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:15.759 But suffice it to say that it has happened to those in our generation, and it may happen to those in here tonight that has laid aside your Bible reading and your prayer life. 00:05:16.160 --> 00:05:18.240 Oh, you've picked something else up. 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:26.800 I don't know what it is, but it's taken the place of that quiet time of meditation. 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:29.839 Oh, but my work's busy. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:33.199 Hey, the Bible says not to be entangled. 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:36.160 It doesn't say not to do what's supposed to be done in this life. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:37.439 Uh work, yes. 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:39.839 Uh work hard, yes, do it with thy mind. 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.759 But don't get entangled to where it strangulates our strength. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:45.920 The joy of the Lord is our strength. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:46.639 Now, wait a minute. 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:47.839 Where does joy come from? 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:49.600 It comes from abiding with God. 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:52.319 It comes from walking with him. 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:58.319 Martha, Martha, thou art cumbered about with much service. 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:00.319 But you know, Martha, one thing's needful. 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:01.439 You're out of balance. 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:09.279 And Mary hath chosen that good thing which shall not be taken away from her, and that was sitting at the feet of Jesus and hearing his word. 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:21.439 Isn't it true that we get so busy sometimes with our life, doesn't matter whether you're young or old, married or unmarried, that sometimes it squeezes out the very strength that we need to drive on. 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.639 And our joy begins to dissipate. 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:27.279 You know what? 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:31.759 I'm just not, I'm just not, I don't know, I'm just not joyous in the ministry anymore. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:33.439 It's not the ministry. 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:38.160 I don't have the joy coming to church anymore. 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:39.439 It's not the church. 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:43.839 Hey, statement. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:48.160 Preaching should be supplemental to our daily devotional life. 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:51.279 This should not be the mainstay. 00:06:52.319 --> 00:06:56.639 Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night is not the mainstay of our Christian walk. 00:06:56.720 --> 00:06:57.600 Would you agree with that? 00:06:58.240 --> 00:06:59.279 Don't just say amen. 00:06:59.360 --> 00:06:59.920 Think about it. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.240 If this is the mainstay of your Christian walk, you're not getting enough strength. 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:06.399 It's not enough. 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:12.800 Say, I come and I'm supposed to be preached to and fed, but just as it doesn't seem like you know I'm getting fed enough. 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:15.920 What are you doing in your personal daily Bible devotions? 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:19.439 What are you getting out of your personal walk? 00:07:19.519 --> 00:07:24.399 Hey, you don't just eat Sunday morning and Sunday night and fast till Wednesday? 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:33.439 And then come back and get a morsel on Wednesday night, and some of you work, you don't even get that, and you fast through to Sunday morning and back to Sunday night again? 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:36.000 You wouldn't do that. 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:41.360 Your flesh would be crying out, feed me, feed me, we're going down. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:45.199 Come on, amen. 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:48.240 But Christians treat it that way sometimes. 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:50.959 We eat daily, don't we? 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:53.040 Amen. 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.560 We ought to make sure spiritually we're getting fed daily, lest we overdrive. 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:04.319 Lest we get to the place where the strength that we need to go on just isn't there. 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:07.920 Hey, God says, I got all you need. 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:10.480 He doesn't run out of strength. 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:12.639 He'll give us more. 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:18.639 Preaching, and I want to say it again, should not be the main supplement, teenager. 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.160 Preaching should not be the supplement, but nothing but a supplement. 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:26.160 Preaching is not the main course. 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:26.879 Ma'am? 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:41.279 And sir, you above everybody, and I above everybody should make sure if we're supposed to be leading and be those that are getting direction from God, that cause we're getting is just not a Sunday morning, a Sunday night, or a Wednesday night. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:43.200 You say, I'm busy, you don't know what I do. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:44.399 You're too busy then. 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:58.399 If you're laying aside the Bible, the word of God, that daily time with God, that daily walk with God, you need to get up earlier or stay up later, or miss a meal, or shut off the radio, or turn off the television, or put away the newspaper. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:00.320 Something needs to change. 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:06.480 Because if we're not careful, we're not looking in that mirror daily at ourselves. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:09.200 That's the whole point. 00:09:10.159 --> 00:09:14.000 And that joy, that strength comes to keep us going. 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:21.360 Look with me at another set of scriptures. 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:23.600 Look at 1 Chronicles chapter 10. 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:25.919 1 Chronicles 10. 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:29.200 A quarter of the message is already done. 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:32.480 1 Chronicles 10 and Joshua chapter 7. 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:38.879 1 Chronicles, not Corinthians, 1 Chronicles chapter 10. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:44.000 And by the way, I'd like to joke with you a little bit more tonight, but this is too serious. 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:47.679 1 Chronicles 10 and Joshua 7. 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.080 In 1 Chronicles chapter 10, it goes along with this concept. 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.159 Look at verse 13 of 1 Chronicles 10. 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:04.159 So Saul died for his transgression. 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:05.840 Verse 13. 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:08.159 Which he committed against the Lord. 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.440 Eve against the word of the Lord, which he kept not. 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.480 And also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to inquire of it. 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:18.080 Look at verse 14. 00:10:18.559 --> 00:10:19.679 Underline it. 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:23.360 And inquired not of the Lord. 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:26.159 Therefore he slew him. 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.960 And turned the kingdom unto David, the son of Jesse. 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:30.480 You mean why? 00:10:30.720 --> 00:10:34.639 Because Saul stopped asking God his counsel and his opinion. 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:35.919 Look at chapter 13. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:37.440 Just flip over a couple of chapters. 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:38.559 Look at chapter 13. 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:40.080 It's reiterated again. 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:43.919 And by the way, you know what daily meditation and daily walk does? 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:46.799 It makes us ask God what he thinks. 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:52.080 We inquire of him through our daily reading and our daily prayer life and our daily meditation. 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:53.039 Look at chapter 13. 00:10:53.120 --> 00:10:54.240 Look at verse 3. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:00.000 David says, And let us bring again the ark of God, our God, to us. 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.440 For we inquired not at it in the days of who? 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:04.240 Saul. 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:08.720 Brethren, when you're in the Bible, isn't it true that you talk to God more? 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.360 Isn't it true when we're doing that devotion in the morning or in the evening or whatever it is? 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:15.200 Isn't it true we talk to God more? 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.799 Isn't it true when our minds are on this book that we say, God, what do you think? 00:11:19.440 --> 00:11:23.919 Isn't it true that we make more decisions asking Him first before we make the decision? 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:27.360 Isn't it true we get better direction when we're walking with Him? 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:28.799 Isn't all of that true? 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.600 And isn't it true also if we lay aside our book, we begin to do things without even asking? 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.879 We begin to make decisions without even asking. 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:41.519 And it may be weeks before we've even said, God, what do you think about this? 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.000 We just say, well, I think I have the mind of the Lord, I'm just going to do it this way and this way and this way and this way. 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.320 We don't even ask him to guide our minds anymore. 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:49.440 Look at Joshua. 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.440 Look at Joshua chapter 7. 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:52.639 It correlates. 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.519 You know the story. 00:11:55.759 --> 00:12:00.799 They had just one at Jericho and they come back in verse 3 of Joshua 7. 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:07.919 And they returned to Joshua and said unto him, let not all the people, chapter 7, verse 3, go up. 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:11.279 But let about two or 3,000 men go up and smite Adai. 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:16.159 And make not all the people to labor thither, but they are but a few. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:17.200 You know what's going on here? 00:12:17.360 --> 00:12:19.440 They're going on without asking God. 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:21.759 Haven't we done that? 00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.879 And haven't some of us got into some trouble? 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:28.879 That we later had to say, Lord, oh, I messed up. 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:30.399 Oh, I should have asked you. 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:31.679 I just took it for granted. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:33.279 I just presumed that that. 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:36.879 I got so busy, Lord, I, you know, I didn't even stop. 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:38.799 And you know what happened here? 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.279 Because the accursed thing crept in. 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:48.159 They were just driving and driving and driving and just thought, hey, we'll just go up as before. 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:49.840 There's only a couple thousand up there. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:52.399 And they forgot to inquire of God. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:54.320 They forgot to ask him. 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:01.440 Joshua wants to quit. 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:04.000 Verse 7. 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:13.200 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought the people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.120 Then he says, This, what a statement. 00:13:18.080 --> 00:13:20.320 God put that in there for our admonition. 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:25.759 And I'm not the man and not the leader Joshua is, but haven't we got to this place somewhere? 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:29.440 Would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side of Jordan. 00:13:29.919 --> 00:13:31.600 What am I doing out here? 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:34.960 How did I get this far out on faith? 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:36.320 Hey, you know what? 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.320 The problem wasn't where he was at. 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:43.279 The problem was he forgot to ask God, and God said, wait a minute, there's something wrong. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.480 You need to stop, you need to examine, you need to look at it, what's going on in there. 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:55.679 Something has crept in, and I want it taken care of because that accursed thing, I'm not going to be with you anymore until that's taken care of. 00:13:55.759 --> 00:13:57.120 Look at verse 12. 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:04.080 Therefore, the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies. 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:04.720 Watch it. 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:06.000 Because they were what? 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:06.799 Accursed. 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:07.200 Why? 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:14.080 Because somebody had disobeyed God's commandment and went out and took some things they weren't supposed to take and had hidden them away. 00:14:14.320 --> 00:14:16.000 Look what he says in verse 12. 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:21.679 Neither will I be with you anymore, except you destroy the cursed from among you. 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:22.639 Brethren. 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:26.000 The same holds true today. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:32.240 The whole idea of devotions is a self-examination, so we get the opportunity to say, you know what, I've got to get that out of my life. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:33.679 I don't want that to get a foothold. 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:35.039 Boy, I don't want that to creep in. 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:36.720 Man, that thing's grabbing me again. 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:38.399 Oh, God, help me with that thing. 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:50.000 If we go without devotions and we lay our Bible aside and we lay our devotional aside and we give it five minutes here and a few minutes there, and the whole time of our devotionals for the week is maybe a half an hour. 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.879 I'll guarantee you, something's gonna creep in. 00:14:55.519 --> 00:14:59.679 And before long, we're going through the motions of the ministry, but nothing's happening. 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:05.840 I mean, they went up to fight just like before, but it didn't work. 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.279 Hey, we can have a big day just like last year. 00:15:12.080 --> 00:15:15.039 Or we can have all the motion of the big day. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.039 But God says, I'm not gonna be with you. 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:22.480 And that's why we have the Lord's Supper. 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:28.480 The Lord's Supper is a time of self-examination, a time of memorial. 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:32.559 He says, you know what? 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:37.120 Until you destroy that accursed thing, I'm not gonna be with you anymore. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:42.720 Haven't you had God show up in your prayer life or your devotional life and say, stop it. 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:45.440 Stop it. 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:47.919 Stop it. 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:50.799 Stop the way you're treating your spouse. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:51.840 Stop it. 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.480 Stop that retaliatory spirit towards those other people. 00:15:56.639 --> 00:15:57.519 Stop it. 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:01.039 Stop that victim mentality. 00:16:01.120 --> 00:16:02.960 You're a child of the king, not a victim. 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:03.840 Stop it. 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.000 I told your trials are gonna come. 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:06.399 Stop it. 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:07.440 Stop the pity party. 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:08.240 Stop it. 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:12.399 Stop what your eyes are doing. 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:15.120 Stop setting those things before your eyes. 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:15.759 Stop it. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.240 How many of you have God dealt with you that way? 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:20.159 Stop it. 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:22.799 Stop dwelling in that area in your life. 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:23.759 Stop it. 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:29.039 It comes through our devotional life, doesn't it? 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:34.480 Samson. 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:38.320 That's a good one. 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:42.960 He played around, played around, and played around. 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.200 Didn't think anything would happen. 00:16:46.480 --> 00:16:48.080 Broke his word. 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:57.679 Rose up one day, ready to go to battle, and with his knot, that the Lord was departed. 00:16:58.799 --> 00:17:00.960 He got his hair shaved. 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:05.039 But he broke a vow. 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:08.640 He said, He didn't break it, they did it for him. 00:17:08.880 --> 00:17:11.920 But he set himself into a place where they could do it. 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.240 He said, I'll shake myself as before. 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:20.319 But he didn't realize his strength was gone. 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:24.480 The strength that God had provided was gone. 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:29.839 And brother, we need strength in our marriages, in our relationships, in our ministries, in our business. 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.279 You try to do it without God and watch it fall apart. 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:43.279 I've heard people say over the years, you can't believe the many people I've heard say, I can't believe this has happened to us. 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:49.119 I never would have thought it was going to happen to us. 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.480 God makes all things consist. 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:01.440 1 Corinthians 5. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.640 And 1 Corinthians 11, over halfway done with the message. 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:12.640 I just want to give you a kind of a running update where we're at, because you're thinking we still got the Lord's Supper. 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:15.680 1 Corinthians 5. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:17.519 1 Corinthians 11. 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:24.720 Preaching as a supplement that provides some strength, but never enough. 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.960 1 Corinthians 5 and 1 Corinthians 11. 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.920 Now watch specifically at the Lord's Supper. 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:33.519 Watch this, please, carefully. 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:48.319 And by the way, if you were in this morning's message, you would understand that the New Testament Lord's Supper is really a New Testament feast of the Passover, if you would, with Christ being our Passover lamb. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:49.440 Verse 7. 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:52.319 1 Corinthians 5, 7. 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:55.200 Purge out, therefore, the what? 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:56.400 The old leaven. 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:57.680 That ye may be a what? 00:18:57.839 --> 00:18:58.480 A new lump. 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:00.160 Hey, we're supposed to be new creatures. 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:02.480 As ye are unleavened. 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:06.000 For even Christ, our Passover is sacrificed for us. 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.519 I want you to vocus in on the context, verse 7. 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:10.480 Purge out. 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:12.880 Keep that old out of there. 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:15.440 Therefore, let us keep verse 8. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:16.319 The what? 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:17.759 The feast. 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.880 Not with old leaven, neither with the leaven. 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.119 And here he describes what leaven is. 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:24.079 Of what? 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:25.920 Malice and wickedness. 00:19:26.079 --> 00:19:27.759 He says that's supposed to be purged out. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.400 Purge out that malice and that wickedness. 00:19:30.720 --> 00:19:32.799 But with the unleavened bread of what? 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:34.000 Sincerity and truth. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:38.240 And then he goes on to tell you more about this leaven that we're supposed to purge out. 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:42.000 He says, I wrote unto you an epistle, not to company with who? 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:43.039 Fornicators. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:47.039 You're saying, well, man, I work with men and with women who are out doing that. 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:49.680 But it doesn't mean you go out to cocktails with them. 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:51.440 It doesn't mean you hang around them. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:53.440 It doesn't mean they become great friends. 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:56.960 It says we're not supposed to keep company with them. 00:19:57.119 --> 00:19:59.680 Hey, I had acquaintances in business. 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.279 But I wouldn't consider them people I kept company with. 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:05.039 Amen? 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:08.880 I didn't hang out with them after hours because they would affect me. 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:10.720 Are you listening to me? 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:16.079 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world. 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:21.200 Or with the covenants or exorcists with the dollars, just for then must we needs go out of the world. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.680 But now I've written unto you not to keep company of any man that is called a brother. 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:31.359 Be a fornicator or covetous or idolater, a railer, a drunkard, or extortioner. 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.359 And then he's specific, which such an one know not to eat. 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:37.920 Somebody says, I don't think that's a way to express love. 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:40.000 Who's talking about expressing love? 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.000 He's saying, hey, keep yourself clean. 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:44.960 Purge it out. 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:46.880 You're not to be the old lump anymore. 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:47.920 Keep yourself clean. 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:55.599 Hey, if a brother is a habitual fornicator, a covetous, or adulterer, a railer, a drunk, or an extortioner, hey, don't hang around them. 00:20:57.279 --> 00:20:59.200 A little leaven leaven's a lump. 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:03.920 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:05.039 Look what he asks then. 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:05.599 Watch it. 00:21:05.759 --> 00:21:07.759 Do not ye judge them that are where? 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:08.720 Within. 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:11.440 But them that are without God judges. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.039 Therefore, put away from among yourselves that wicked person. 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:17.680 And somebody says, Well, see, that's what the church is supposed to do. 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:19.200 No, that's what you're supposed to do. 00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:22.000 In your personal life. 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.000 Hey, if there's a lot of gossip going on, don't hang around the person. 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:30.000 If there's backbiting going on, don't hang around the person. 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:32.640 Well, I might hurt them. 00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:34.400 Well, tell them why. 00:21:35.359 --> 00:21:38.000 Just tell them let's get that out of our conversation. 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.440 Amen. 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:39.920 Amen. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:40.400 Amen. 00:21:40.720 --> 00:21:42.720 Well, I it could be the accursed thing. 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:47.599 And God might judge. 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:49.359 Look at verse chapter 11. 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:50.559 Stay with me. 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:52.720 Chapter 11. 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:56.000 Verse 23, this feast. 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:59.519 I have received the Lord that which also I delivered unto you. 00:21:59.599 --> 00:21:59.839 Stay with me. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:04.160 Verse 23, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:07.599 And he goes into what we'll be going into in just a moment. 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:17.839 And then he says in verse 27, Wherefore, whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:20.799 But let a man do what? 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.640 It didn't say, go examine someone else. 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:27.039 Tonight I'm not trying to examine you. 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:29.519 I'm examining myself. 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:38.720 And so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup, for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:42.079 And he says, this is a reason that many are weak and sickly among you. 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:44.000 Verse 31, watch it. 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:47.119 For if we would do what? 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:48.960 Judge ourselves. 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:52.400 We should not be judged. 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:55.039 But when we are judged, we are what? 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:56.960 Chasten of the Lord. 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:00.079 You know what those two scriptures in verse 31 and 32, look at them. 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:03.920 If we'll judge ourselves, then he won't have to chasten us. 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:05.920 Is that right? 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:07.759 Come on, that's what he says. 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:12.160 If we'll judge ourselves, then he won't have to chasten us. 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:13.519 Let me say it again. 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:15.920 If we'll judge ourselves, and you know what he says? 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:17.519 That's the Lord's supper. 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:21.440 Do it in remembrance of me, but make sure you examine yourself. 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:25.440 Judge yourself, and that way I won't have to chasten you. 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:28.079 Clean it up. 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:29.680 Purge. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:31.119 Purify. 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:34.640 Last set of scriptures. 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:40.799 Look at Exodus 12 and 2 Peter 3. 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.160 And let me wrap this together tonight. 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:47.519 Exodus 12 and 2 Peter 3. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.720