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Strong Drink

Pastor Joe · May 17, 2026

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Yeah, looks like it's working Let's see Proverbs 360 and Proverbs. Let me check that out first But yeah, it's just opened right up to it. Okay, Proverbs chapter 20 probably is the best place Linda Verse 1 actually Proverbs 20 verse 1 that's probably a oh you don't need a lot of verses but and who's whoever's deceived thereby is not wise and also Mark Downe, Genesis chapter 9, probably the best places, verse 20 concerning Noah who made a wine and also look up Job in, remember Job or not Job, I'm sorry, Lot who got drunk and look what happened to him Also, another good example of a bad example. Lot got drunk and his daughter's got him drunk and look what happened there. There's nothing good about wine or any strong drink. Notice the word here in verse 1, the word strong drink. That's the secret. But anyone who drinks in public and calls herself a Christian, in my opinion, is pretty foolish. That's the foolish thing to do. but whatever I could find excuse to do anything if I really want to, right? But remember what happened, and kind of remember what happened to Noah when he did get drunk. You know, a lot of bad things happened to him. A lot of bad things happened to both of them when they did get drunk. And I always wondered, whatever gave him the idea to make wine in the first place. You know, where did Lot get and Noah get the idea? Here's fresh off the boat. Fresh over from where I've fresh off the boat and made some alcohol. Where do you get the idea from? OK. Is there good enough? It helps. All right. Well, we'll have we'll have we'll have our make our announcements and then we'll do our prayer. But we had these quizzes. And I've got these graded, however, the second quiz, how many of you were going to complete the second quiz? Linda, do you want to do you have it? OK, I'll give you one. And as soon as everybody is interested in taking the quiz as complete, then we'll go over the second quiz because I want to go over some of that. But I didn't want to do it until everybody had the opportunity I think I have a couple more of them. Yeah. Yeah. First one. Well, I think that's the first one. But the thing is on your own is that you don't have to worry about it. You really have to worry about it. Okay. Thank you. After all, you're all graded and everything. That's what I'm going to hang on to until I became, uh, okay. Okay. Also, how many of you would like to have the book on the resurrection that we put together a couple of months ago? How many of you don't have it? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Okay. Eight. All right. Well, we'll put those together next week and see that everybody has one. I'll probably have about ten of them put together. I used to print a lot of those, but I only print as many as we need now, because whatever. Okay. Any more questions before we go any further? I like questions. Questions are good. Okay, let's have our prayer services morning. I think the first thing we'll put on here is Goldie's having problems. We'll put her on there first with her vision as went away completely, didn't it, and then came back. Uh-huh, then it came back some. Then I couldn't clean up and I started, oh God, please don't let me go, but please don't let me go, and then it come back and I can see a little bit, but it's a lot worse than it was last time. That's another problem with drinking. Not that you have a problem with drinking, but it'll blind you. I've done that two at once. Okay, anybody, anything else? What? For Brenda, I'm healing also to give her a lot of extra strength right now since we're going through and I actually love strength. Okay. We're going to do that for Edith and her continued recovery and healing for a daughter of Barb. She needs a lot of further strength right now, which we're going to do for Ricky. Ricky? One month. One month? Yeah, I'm applying for a Michael. Okay. And for a bill, I work with the names of the Wayne and his mother, Joyce. And she just had a scrosh. She's got a hospital for the nursing home and will not make the house a nursing home. It's the birthplace of the Wayne Joyce. And for the nation. Okay, good. I'm trying to plan an ambulance to run. Okay. Good. let's see Amanda. Who? Okay. Ken? Okay. Leah Dustin and our troops. Justin. Oh, yeah. That's Leah's boyfriend, right? Yeah. Okay. I got Ken has need Leah Justin in our troops. Justin's family. All righty. See you. Herb? Okay. Got hit by a train. I didn't hear about that. Okay, that's the train wreck victim time, okay, okay, I got her been just involved in the train, okay, there You could have probably been in there and I think he was experienced up with everything. So my grandpa, Jay, I'm here. And the guy who used to work with him, Phil Smith, is a brother of a pastor. What is in there? Bill Smith family. Okay. All right. I did. Bob and then Tabitha. Mary and her friend, Jim Stockton, He's still not back to work, but he sold his cars, sold his land, and he's still a little much bummer. There's some tough times. Yeah. He really is. Tabitha? My name's Mark. Okay. Okay. So your car name's work. Need some maintenance. Sure. That's a legitimate request. Yes. Mary? It's a dollar. Valerie. And who? Miss Ellie. Miss Ellie. I learned I learned here. I miss them. Okay, anything else? Um, which, what's the purchase on there? That's been a wife. They're both in the house at all. Also, she's the one on there. She is. In her last days of her cancer. And so by, I'm going out there. There's a Saturday. So, of course, it's me. My sister about there in my family. So I'll visit. And, uh, just visiting us today. Okay. Okay. Rebus. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's bow our heads and take a minute and lift these requests up the Lord this morning. Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, we ask that you be with the following requests. We thank you for listening and being attentive to our prayers and we thank you for it in Christ's name. Be with Goldie and her vision and all our other problems she's having and be with Brenda and the trouble that she's going through right now and give her the strength to deal with it. Also with the Edith or mother and be with Barb and be with the request for Ricky and woman was blind and also with the request for Michael. Be with Dwayne and Joyce and also with the request for the nation of Israel. Continue to be with Ron and heal him and provide his needs. Be with the parents and their health, Bill and Linda. We ask each of you to be with them. Be with that request. Be with the kin as a knee problem. Also with the request for Leah and Justin and we pray for Leah every day and Justin and be with our troops and be with the family with the train at the incident. I guess the name is Herb and Justin that their families and be also with Danny and the family there and be with Jay, be with the Bill Smith family and their loss. Be with the Mary's headaches and Jim Stockie who's really going through some really really bad times and it must be awful. It must be a terrible thing. We ask towards be with him. Be with a request for Laura and Jerry and Wesley and be with Tabith's car and fix it aren't thing. So she can get back and forth. We do need our cars. Be with her bus for Mall Valerie and Mary and Ginger. And also Miss Ellie, who we miss when she's not here, be with the virtues and the hospital thing there and be with the request for Pat and be with Dana and her families. They travel there to pay her a visit. Be with the Dustin and his trip home today. Be with the Reba and the loss and the daughter and be with Kathy who's surgery is coming up. Be with all of these requests and all the unspoken requests. And we just ask Lord to be with Christian Bible Church, give us the ability to learn your Word properly, rightly, and invite it, and give us the ability to glorify your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And His name we pray, amen. Hey, big pardon? It's on. Yeah, I probably shouldn't have turned along so soon, but whatever doesn't matter. It's really had half a dozen things I wanted to do today but I really don't know which route to take. The other is the original appraisal for a hundred and sixty some thousand was for the pastor's residence. There's a name for that. I forgot what it is. Parish. Thank you. Parish. Whatever. But the church itself and the little lot that goes with it, a very small lot, is $340,000. So I'm not going to pursue that any longer. The way I see it, the Lord wants us to have a church. We'll have one. And we'll just leave go with that. My personal opinion is if you're going to have a church five piece of property and anchor or two with all the utilities on it with maybe a small house start there. That's my opinion. I've built, I've started three churches and built one, rebuilt one and never did either one of them that way, but I really think that's a route to take. You buy a small house, you've got it, rewire it the way you have to, start there, use it, then add on to it, add a little chapel onto it, and that's how you go. That's my opinion. I've been through a lot of it and that's just, that's just the way I see it. And you can start off with whatever amount of money you have, with a small investment, but my other opinion is, if you guys want church work at it. Figure out a way. If you really want one you get together and work at it. Figure it out. Yes. I just wanted to say I was driving to go get chance for Barc's dress today and this is that in lowly and on the right hand side I looked up and in front of this church for rent signs. Oh, really? It's about the size of a little bit bigger than heritage. Uh-huh. I'm just mentioning it. I don't know if it would be a concern. Where is it at? It's since East Lake will be that area. It's not exactly on, um, now you get off that lost nation and you go off to the Lincoln hospital tights. Yeah. It's before that. It's before that fastest church there. If there's this church there, it's only like three doors from there and it's on the right hand side, all the way. Well, that's, like I say, that's up to the church, you guys. Get together and get together and talk it over. If you find something you're interested in, you know, make a decision. Well said for rent, it didn't stay for sale. Yeah. Which, you know, that's probably, that's probably an option, I guess. I don't know. I think you'd be wasting your money there. If you rent with option to buy, that'd be one thing, but you'd be throwing your money away. way of might will stay where you're at because not costing you anything and in the meantime you're putting money in the bank. Thank God for very schools so that's my opinion on that. I don't think renting is an option owning is an option but renting with option to buy might be an option but just renting is not an option you're throwing money away. The only good thing that might come of that is if you're in a building the church would because people would say, oh, they're in a building, whatever, and you get more money, I don't know, but I just don't personally think it's an option. So whatever. Oh, we could just pitch a tent somewhere. Eminent Donain. Donain, how's that work? You find a piece of property that belongs to the government, move in, and assume ownership, right? Consider that. You put it in no name, you fell in no name I'm going backwards and see what I can do. Amalong. Yeah. Amalong. Yeah. There was a company I was in, Carter Lumberton. There was a company there called Amalong Construction Company. And I told the guy, and I said, you know, look at that. The guy's, that's no name backwards. He said, he was shocked. He said he is. Yeah. That's pretty neat. Okay. Anyhow, that's all the announcements I had this morning. But anybody else have any questions? Okay. Well, let's go home then. I got something that's been on my mind lately, and I'm going to talk about that a little bit this morning. I've been talking concerning my feelings as a Christian. How do I feel about things? I need to change the way I feel about a lot of things. I was going to talk somewhere on Romans chapter 12 this morning, but anyhow, turning to Bibles to Genesis chapter 16. There's a lot of things going on in the world that I don't like. But I need to be able to understand them and I need to have certain feelings about them. One of the things going on in the world that I don't like is the way our society looks at the Muslims, the terrorist problem, the Muslim, the terrorist, the whole thing. And I don't like a lot of the way things are going on in the world today. I'll tell you one thing I don't like to just happen the other day, that fella in the army, whatever he was in, that got this army discharge for mistreating prisoners. I think George Bush should have defended that kid. That's my opinion. Ten years in prison and a disarmable discharge. For what? For making a bunch of terrorists take their clothes off and pile up in a pile? You know what? Should have shot them, damn terrorists. Excuse me. You do here when you take him put in jail here, they took your clothes. That's right. If you get arrested for drunk driving, oftentimes they'll strip you. So anyway, huh? He said yesterday that they treated his parents good and appreciate his debt, but he done that from the high authority. He did? He did do it from high authority. Yes, he did. Everything they did was according to oil. Everything they did was according to their rules. But in order to appease the world, which is evil, one kid gets persecuted, and probably others. And I don't like it, I really don't. And say, well, that's a terrible way to feel. I don't think so. Those Islamic fundamentalists, those terrorists over there are killing people. They've been bombing embassies, churches, schools. How many years ago? About 20 years. Yeah, longer than that. I've been waiting for you to come in there with however long that flow. And I know how to stop it if I wasn't charged, but I'm not going to. Yeah, I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you how I would stop it. I would set off a bomb that spreads over the city, wherever these terrors are. Fill that bomb with pig's blood, so that that pig's blood would spread everywhere. I'm serious, I mean I'd kill 100,000 pigs if I had to, and I'd fill these bombs and I'd fill whatever I could, balloons, anything I could with pigs blood, pigs guts, and I'd drop them all over these Muslim Islamic terrorists, you know why? Because they figure they're going to go to hell, pigs blood will keep them from having. That's what I do, and I'd I'd bomb them with a literal bomb, but it'd be full of pigs, blood, pigs, guts, and, you know what, that terrorist would stop. And then the next thing I would do, if I found out that a man was a terrorist, the next thing I would do is, if I was a government official, I would have a secret police organization, I'd call him the hitman, and I'd go after that man's family. I'd kill his mother, I'd kill his sisters, I'd kill his brother, you say that's a terrible thing. No way it isn't. You know why he's a terrorist because his mother and his father raised him from the time he was four years old to hate you, a Christian, to hate you and the Jews, hate, hate, hate. That's what I'd do. And every time a terrorist killed one of my American citizens, if he knew that his mother or his father or his brother, or one of his children was going to be murdered by the hitman, you know what? It would stop. And so take going to Bible Genesis chapter 16, you say boy your harsh preacher, yes I am, and I'm not ashamed of it, even. Fortunately for me, I don't run this world, I'm just a little old preacher. Verse 11, and I'm going to tell you what's going on in the world today, and I'm going give you the verses to prove them because these things dwell on me and I know I've probably spent too much time on it but hey it's in the Bible isn't it? It's in the Bible so how should I feel about it? Well I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you how I feel and why. You can draw your own conclusions or one thing I always say don't take my word for anything. Don't assume anything is true just because I say so. Don't take my word for it. Don't just say well the preacher said, so don't ever do that. Study for yourself, draw your own conclusions, make up your own mind. All I'm doing is telling you what I think according to the Bible. Okay. And then we'll go from there. Verse 11, and the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold the art with child and shall bear a son and shall fall his name is your male. Because the Lord have heard by affliction. Verse 12, and he will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man. Is that sound familiar? Who was Ishmael? Well, you'll find out. You probably know. Against every man and every man's hand against him, and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren. Turn over to chapter 17, if you will, verse 20. As for Ishmael, I have heard the behold, God told Abraham, he said, I've got two children, God. Well, Ishmael was the wrong child. He He shouldn't have had him, and God promised him a son so in his haste to fulfill God's word. He made a mistake. As for his male, I've heard thee, behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he begin, and I will make him a great nation. But notice that word, that little free letter word, but my covenant will I establish with Isaac, not with Ishmael. God made no covenant with Ishmael. Whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. Now, go, if you will, chapter 25, verse 12, here if you will. Now, these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Heghar, the Egyptian, Sarah's hand made bore unto Abraham. And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael by their names, according to their generations, the first born of Israel, Ishmael, Nibbhajot, whatever. Qidhar, Abdel, Mipsum, Mishma, Duma, Masa, Hadeh, Tima, Jettar, et cetera, et cetera. These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their towns, by their camps or encampments, 12 princes according to their nation. These became the Arabian nations, And isn't it funny that over there in Israel got that little Israel surrounded by all these great big nations, the era? Now then, all your place will come back here in a minute. Go over if you will to 2nd Samuel chapter 7, if you will. Remember what God said. We just read in Isaac, shall by seed be called. And we're going to take a little closer look at that. Okay? 2nd Samuel chapter 7. the covenant God made with David. Why is David important? Well, we'll take a look at that. It's called the Davidic covenant. Look at it, you will over here in verse 10, verse 9. God said, and I was with thee, whether ever or wherever, withers to ever thouwithest, and have cut off all high enemies out as I cite, and have made thee a great name, liken to the name of the great men who are in the earth. Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people who is real. And we'll plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more. Now get this. Neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore. Who is that? The children, the children absolutely, the children of wickedness is everyone who hates Israel more than anybody else, those who hate Israel, is the Arabian. Now as a Christian, I'm not supposed to hate, but am I allowed to hate anything at all? There are two things I hate and I'm allowed to do this. Number one, hate evil. Number two, false doctrine. How can I say that? Because false doctrine is evil. False doctrine is evil. You know why? Because it's against the word of God. If it's against the word of God, what is it? Antichrist. Antichrist against the word of God. Evil. False doctrine is evil. If it's not according to the word of God, it's evil. is it evil? It's satanic. The Muslim religion is evil and satanic. It did not come from God. It came from God's enemies. It came from the enemies of Israel. So if it came from the enemies of Israel, it came from…and it's evil, then it is…listen. The Muslim religion is the worst anti-Christ doctrine in the world. There are all kinds of false religions, but the Muslim religion is the ultimate works righteousness. It's the ultimate. Now listen to what he said, let's read that again. And neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them anymore. When was the United- how should I feel about this? Was the United States of America when we went over into Iraq and those other places, were we right and justified in doing that? Yes, you say, Well, how can you prove that? Let me give you one verse, Deuteronomy Chapter 9, if you will. Deuteronomy Chapter 9. I'm trying to cover a lot of territory quickly here, but I'm trying to prove my point and trying to prove why I have a right to feel the way I do. By the way, you cannot take, pay attention to this and get marked this down in your mind. You cannot take one verse out of the Bible and prove your doctrine on it. You cannot do that. In order to prove your doctrine, what you think, in order to prove the truth, you need to go through the Bible, compare the whole thing together. Anyhow, that's why we go through the Bible and use the Bible together. Deuteronomy chapter 9. God told Israel to go over Jordan and possess the promised Lamb. Look what he said. Verse 3, understand therefore this day that the Lord thy God is He who goes over before thee. As a consuming fire, he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face. Show, shout, they'll drive them out and destroy them quickly as the Lord has sent unto thee. Why? Doesn't this sound terrible? God wants me to go in and drive out these people to possess the land. That's terrible. Listen, the United States of America went over to Iraq. They drove out Saddam Hussein, they're trying to drive out the terrorists. Are they right or wrong in doing that? Well, let's see here. before. Speak not thou in thine heart after the Lord thy God has cast them out before thee. Saying, for my righteousness, the Lord has brought me into possessive land, but for the wickedness of these nations, the Lord just drive them out before thee. They are wicked, evil. God hates it. I personally think the United States was right in going over there. I think there are a lot of things they're doing that are wrong, but you gotta realize that on September 9th, we were attacked by Muslim terrorists who used religion as a reason to murder and kill people, that's evil. But 9-11 wasn't the only time they've been doing that for 50 some years. They've been bombing embassies, everything, terrorists, using a word a la to support their justification, which the word Allah, by the way, goes all the way back to an ancient Semitic language, has nothing to do with God. Yes? Was it now the time you said in Colombo? Yeah, he said he was going to be another… He was rebuilding Babylon, he was going to be another Nebuchadneeser. Wasn't that right? Yeah. He wasn't a process of doing that. Right now, Babylon, I don't know if you know this, is just a pile of rubble. No, it's not. They already had… They already had? Well, I know that up until about 20 years ago was a pile of rubble, but, you know, what? In reality, if you study Babylon, Babylon is, that's a good point. If we weren't running out of time, we'd go take a look at that. But I did not know that they were, that he had it actually rebuilt. I knew he made the statement, but I didn't know he did. Really? I wonder why that's not on the world news so that you would, I just strange isn't it? They don't study properly. Yeah, they don't study properly. Yes, so that you have, the news they moved the trip style, like they said, their trips were possible by those people. And some have net commisers naming great things. They can run them out of there. But now they're moving out into another area. Well, just to show you how demonic. So who's saying really is, I mean that's Mary? Isn't that the same King that the King saved him? Nebuchadneeser was saved, yeah. And wrote in the book. Yeah. Why would he ever be like that? Well, he doesn't really. He wanted to be liking because he had a different perception of Nebuchadneeser. He perceived Nebuchadneeser as the biblical concept of the all-assuming King who wanted worship. Remember, Nebuchadneeser had the great big statue built to him. Remember that? and everybody was close to worship but and so forth. And that's what Saddam Hussein saw. As far as Saddam Hussein saw that tower of battle. What's that? The tower of battle. Yeah, that's where Babylon was located at the tower of battle. Yeah. And I thought maybe we'd look at that briefly. But anyhow, back to Genesis, if you will. Couple of other things I need to point out if I have time here. That's the one verse that we already looked at, chapter 17, verse 21. But my covenant will I establish with Isaac whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. God made a covenant with Abraham, but it all went all the way back to Adam and Eve. The covenant was, he said, shall bear unto thee this set time next year. Now look over in chapter 21, verse 12, if you will. Chapter 21, verse 12, and God sent unto Abraham, let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy bond woman, and all that Sarah have sent unto thee, harkened unto her voice for in Isaac, shall by seed be called. Now what does God mean by that? In Isaac, shall by seed be called. Absolutely. Turn on the wheel of the Galatians chapter 4. You need to make a note in your Bible here. Right next to this verse, Galatians chapter 4, various verses here. So those proberto Galatians, if you will. Galatians chapter 4. You see all the things that are taken place in the world are biblical. They have a biblical concept, a biblical background. Everything taken place in the world of that. It's all in the news this morning. Israel is renewing their their their their warfare against the terrorists and they said Israel said we don't care who who cares we don't care about the rest of the world we're tired of being terrorized and in you can't blame them in Galatians chapter three if you will Galatians chapter three let's see go if you will to oh let's go to birthdays I will back up here a little bit even as Abraham believed God it was count him for righteousness know you therefore that who are of faith the same are the children of Abraham and the scripture for seeing that God would justify the heathen Gentiles through faith preach before the gospel and Abraham. By the way how was Abraham saved? The gospel was preached. What is the gospel? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ died was buried and rose again for the forgiveness of sin. Who served believe in him shall have eternal life. That's the gospel. It was preached on Abraham. What Abraham do he believed it he believed in Christ saying in these shall all nations be blessed so then they who are faith are blessed with faithful Abraham now let's form over to where do I want to go there so many places verse chapter 4 verse 30 and we'll come back here chapter 4 verse 28 Okay, back at the verse 28. Now we brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him, that was born after the Spirit. Even so it is now. Now, did you hear that? Even so him. Let's see, let me read that again. But as then, he that was born after the flesh, that is, ishmael, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, Isaac. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that the Muslim is persecuting everyone who is, if you're a Christian, they hate you. And you know what's strange about the whole thing? They don't realize it. They don't realize that they're worldly evil. They just don't know it. don't they just don't see it. But they were born after the flesh. In other words, no, verse 30, read that. Nevertheless, what say at the Scripture? Cast out the bond woman and her son. For the son of the bond woman shall not be air with the son of the free woman. So then brethren, we are not children of the bond woman. So what's the bottom line? Let me boil it all down here. There are so many many much more I want to go into here. Let me boil it all down. Bondage is a type of false religion. The Muslim religion, the Islamic religion, is the ultimate works righteousness. You cannot work your way to heaven. You cannot do anything to get to heaven. Heaven is absolutely free. False religion is always in the Bible, bondage. So the bond woman, ishmael, became the son of the bond woman, the ultimate type of a works righteousness. Not only is it an ultimate type of the works righteousness, if you can see it in the world today. I mean, it's so visible. It's the ultimate and do you know why the world accepts the terrors? You know why they feel sorry for the Muslim? You know why they feel because of evil. They are the ultimate works righteousness. They hate God, hate Christ, hate the Bible, and therefore they accept the opposite. You know, the Muslim can cut off somebody's head and nobody complains. And they can put it on a video, nobody complains, but you take an army sergeant who's doing his job or whatever he was, private, I don't know what he was, doing his job. And maybe he went a little overboard, but he was dealing with a lousy, murderous, terrorist And who gets persecuted, the United States, the soldier. The soldier gets persecuted. He didn't kill anybody, he maybe mentally abused them somewhat. Don't you feel sorry for him? I don't. I feel sorry for the soldier. I feel sorry for him. He humiliated them. He humiliated them. Which is exactly what they deserve. Listen, that's the only way you can deal with the terrorists. I remember what we were talking about, the biggest blood, had so many other verses. Go to Psalm 83 before we close. 83rd song. I wanted to go to Hebrews, I wanted to go to a lot of places, but we don't have time for that. So 83rd song. Keep not thou silence old God, verse 1. Hold thy not thy peace and be not still old God. You know, sometimes I wonder, you know, God is still, isn't he? They won't God what's going on? We know what's going on according to the Bible. The seed is the nation of Israel, Genesis chapter 3, verse 14. And then if you go to Revelation chapter 12, you'll see where Satan persecuted the woman. Israel. Why? Because Christ came out of the Israel. That's why you have the account of David, King David, and then you have the two genealogies going one going to Mary and one going to Joseph. remember that? We talked about that a little bit. Why? Israel. David and through those two lines, Mary and Joseph came to Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't that amazing? And so we have the nation of Israel that the world hates, the Arab hates, you have a Christian that they hate you and I, if you're a Christian. Of course, how should I feel about them? I shouldn't hate them, but I should hate the evil that they do and I should hate the false doctrine they promote. I have a right to do that. I hate their doctrine. I hate the Muslim religion. I hate the Qur'an. I hate it. It's anti-Christ. And I have a perfect right to do that. Verse two, for low thine enemies make it to malt. And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. You get that? They hate Israel. Now I want you to notice verse three. They have taken crafty council against thy people is real and can solve it against thy hidden ones, the church. Why would the Bible call them the hidden ones? Because the church was a mystery in the Old Testament, right? They were hidden in the Old Testament. No such thing as church in the Old Testament denoting about it. They were the hidden ones. But since the day of Pentecost, the church is no longer hit. Now that we have a new testimonial, got that? You understand that? Good. They have said, come and let us cut them off from being a nation for a people that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. They hate Israel. You know what? They don't know why. It's simple because they are the children of a bond woman, a works righteousness which is anti-Christ. Israel although many of them are not saved, they are God's chosen, out of them came the Lord Jesus Christ, and out of Jesus Christ came the church. The hidden one, the opposite of the works righteousness, the church which is by grace, are you say, God's mercy, God's grace, absolutely the opposite of the ultimate works righteousness which is the Muslim religion. For they have consulted together with one consent, they are Confederate against thee. You know why? Israel is surrounded by hatred, and look at Hitler, how many Jews he tried to destroy the nation of Israel, tried to wipe them off the face of the earth. You know who else did? Russia? Russia, the Communist Party? By the way, communism isn't dead. Anybody that thinks just because you're going to chop four down that block wall over there in Russia, how dead people actually say, oh, communism's over with, what a stupid statement. Yeah. Communism's an ideology. way I feel. It's anti-Christ. It's socialism. Whatever. It's not over. The tabernacles of Edam and the Ishmaelites. Notice that word? The Ishmaelites of Moab and the Haggerines, etc., etc. And when you get home the day sometime or other, go to 120th song. And read where David talked about living in the tents of Airef and David said, I want a piece, but they want a board. You know what, I don't care who gets elected in Iraq, Iran, Palestine. It doesn't make any difference. They're going to be an Arab and they're going to hate the Jew. I don't care what branch of the Islamic Party there are, they're going to be a religious fundamentalist that hates the Jew. If you ever do anything in your life, pray for the Jew. You need to pray for the Church, pray for the Jew, pray for Israel. I said, Blessed is the evil praise for Israel, you see. I guess we're way past our time, sorry about that, but that's just one of the things I had to talk about. It's more and then bother me for a couple of days and I have to give it off my chair. None of that, you need to know how to feel about it. You need to know how to feel about it. The United States going over there, we had a perfect right to do that. He's long, he's evil. As a Christian, let me point out one more thing, we'll be close. As a Christian, I have to have different feelings than I do as a nation. As a nation, we have a perfect right to get angry and go to war. Do we not? I have to support that. As a Christian, I am not allowed to get angry and hate humanity. As a Christian, I have to be understanding. I have to have logic, common sense, as a Christian on a personal level. But as a Christian, living in the United States of America, I have to support my country. So I have to think differently. Do I not? That's only logical. It's only logical. Let's have a word for everyone below. Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, I ask that you forgive my anger, my animosity. But whatever I think is well-founded, I don't know. I do know that you want me to love, but I cannot love evil. I cannot love false religion. It contradicts your word, it's illogical, it's satanic, and I just don't like it. Give me the ability to be a good servant to you, a good preacher, a good pastor, and a good everything, but give me the ability more than anything at all to understand your word and we'll just thank the in Christ's name, amen.
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