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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 Today, Nehemiah part 6, here's the message title, take out your notes. Here's the message title, scam likely. How to answer the devil when he calls.0:25 How many of you have ever got a call from scam? Mister Likely. Actually, maybe he's missus Likely. Who am I to assume his gender? Yeah? Their gender. Sorry about0:37 that. You know, so you get the call and you realize suddenly I have a new friend. Never met scam. I don't know what this person is like, but they call and they, you know, try0:49 to sell you something and I have learned finally, it took me a couple years to get this, but just press the red button. Yeah? Scam is never in it for you. Scam's coming for you.1:01 He's not with you. You gotta answer him the right way. And and and some people are making a killing on TikTok with some funny videos. My wife sent me1:13 1, and I love this video of how 1 particular, I wanna call her a sister in Christ, responded to scam likely. Let's let's check this video out. Watch.1:24 This is Claire. Praise the lord. How's your day going so far? Praise the lord. Hello? I'm calling to let you know that the government is giving Praise the lord.1:36 Okay. Praise the lord. To confirm your eligibility. Praise the lord. Have any government or state Yes, god. Praise you, Jesus. Thank you, lord.1:49 Praise you. Hallelujah. Praise god. Praise god. Praise god. Hallelujah. Praise the lord. Hallelujah.2:02 Hallelujah. Praise the lord. Hallelujah. Praise the lord. Praise you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Praise the lord. Praise the lord.2:13 Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. When I think of the goodness goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me,2:24 my soul cries I. Hallelujah. And I thank God.2:39 Now I don't know if that I don't know if that lady will ever see this service, but if you live anywhere near 1 of our locations, we want you to sign up for Waters Choir. Amen. Now she just taught us, don't2:51 let the devil steal your praise. Come on somebody. The devil keeps talking, you just keep praising. I love that video. Now in this in this chapter of Nehemiah, this is the my favorite3:03 chapter. This is my favorite chapter. And you're gonna love this chapter. Because in this chapter, and and we'll put this up on the screen, there are 4 tactics of the enemy and 4 responses to keep3:15 You will face the enemy if you are going to walk with Jesus. Well, let me put it this way. He will face you. He will come after you. We said this 2 weeks3:26 ago. The 3 channels of the enemy's attack are they all begin with m. Your mind, your mouth, and the mystical. Your mind is a battlefield. You gotta take authority3:38 over your thoughts. Your mouth can produce life or death. What are you saying about you? What are you saying about others? What are you saying about your job, about your kids, about your marriage? Speak3:50 life. Somebody say speak life. Speak life. And then the mystical is the unseen, the immaterial world. The unseen powers of wickedness that Paul talks about in Ephesians chapter 6 verse4:02 12. We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places, the principalities, the authorities, the high places in the unseen realm.4:14 Those are the 3 channels of the enemy. But those are the those are those are the means by which he attacks. But what are what are the tactics of the enemy?4:25 Now let me wet your appetite for this content by saying this. I wish that my 48 year old self preaching today could travel back4:37 in time and tell my 28 year old self these things. I was 27 when we started this church here in North Edinburgh. And everything that Nehemiah experiences4:49 in this chapter, I experienced. Different names, but the same methodologies. And as I studied this chapter, names and5:01 faces came into my mind of the people that God that the enemy, not God, the enemy tried to use to stop me from leading you.5:14 By God's grace, they didn't win. Amen, somebody. But it didn't mean they didn't try. And this, I wish I I wish I could go back into so if you are in your5:25 twenties, pay attention. This this is cold from God's word today. And I I want you to understand where we are in the bible story.5:37 The if you haven't been here through the study of Nehemiah, real quick synopsis. In 5 86 BC, Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians. The walls were torn down, and the people5:49 were exiled out of the land. That that was the case for 70 years. Then they started to come back into the land, but they didn't rebuild for another 70 years. And the city was open to attack and6:01 enemies, and they had no walls to protect them. So they were distressed. This is Nehemiah chapter 1. They were distressed. They were they were in mourning. They had no freedoms. They had no, you know,6:13 protection. Nehemiah gets word from the palace of Persia, the superpower of the day. He's the cup bearer to the king. He hears the reports of what's6:25 going on in his home country. He's a Jew. And he and he and he weeps and he prays, God, give me the opportunity to do something about that. God does. He opens the door, he opens the the the the the6:37 pocketbook of the Persian king with paperwork and he travels 800 miles across the world to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. And we've talked about how this has been going so far in chapter6:48 3, chapter 4, chapter 5. Now chapter 6, listen to this, he's on the verge of completing the wall. In fact, he says in verse 1 that the wall was7:00 completed, it's just they didn't set the doors and the gates in place yet. So I say all that to say this. Nehemiah is gonna face 4 successive tough7:12 tests, attacks from the enemy, and he is this close to finishing the job. Why does that apply to you? Because some of you gotta learn7:24 to pick up on a tell in your life. The tell is that you are usually attacked the hardest when victory is the closest.7:36 The enemy is not gonna waste his time attacking you when you're just getting started. He's gonna wait until you are almost there, until you are just about to see the victory7:48 come, And then he unloads series of attacks from multiple angles and different people to try and stop you. Some of you gotta realize that8:00 the enemy sees your potential victory better than you do. And so if he's coming at you, rejoice and be glad, God must be on the verge of doing8:12 something really powerful through you and for you. So I I hope that today, God opens some eyes, and I hope that today, the holy spirit8:23 empowers your life. Because Paul says, we are not ignorant of the devil's schemes. Underline schemes in the thought. That is not in your notes. I'm just saying in your mind. Underline schemes8:35 because you're so good. Thank you so much for trying to underline something that wasn't there. Some of you, like, spend the next 5 minutes, where is that worst schemes? I cannot The8:47 devil has schemes, tactics. He he's smart. And so let's talk about 4 of them. Write this down. Number 1, the first tactic we're gonna see in this chapter is diversion or8:58 distraction. Diversion or distraction. The old preacher said it like this, if the devil can't get you sinning, he'll get you busy and busy with things that don't matter. Now hear me.9:11 Sometimes the things that don't matter are the relationships that you don't need, The conversations that you shouldn't bother with. And that's exactly what we see in verse 1, 2, and9:23 3. Look at this. Verse 1, now when Sanballat, these are the enemies. Tobiah and Geshem, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had the wall and there was no there was no breach. The wall is done though. The the doors9:34 and the gates need to go in. So they see, the enemy sees the wall and the and the job is almost done. Victory is a hair's breath away. And so they9:46 decide, let's preoccupy this guy. Look at it. Verse 2, Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, come, let us meet together at Hecaparim in the plain of Ono, but they intended to do9:58 Mehan. They want to occupy Nehemiah's time, his relation his relational quotient. They want to distract him, divert10:10 him from the business of the kingdom. And the key idea here is the devil, if he can't destroy you, he will try to distract you. And what what you have to see here is that sometimes10:22 it's gonna happen to you that people who don't have your best interest in mind when it comes to following Jesus will try to occupy your time so you don't follow Jesus. And you need to10:33 have this the the the guts, if you will, to do what Nehemiah does in in verse 3. I love this. I sent messengers to them saying,10:46 I am doing a, what? Great I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?10:58 You know what Nehemiah gives his enemies? Nothing. Now some of you need to learn how to do this. When enemies come and when opportunities to distract you from the kingdom come,11:10 you go to your closet and you pull out a huge bag of nothing. And you put it in a box and you wrap it up and you put a bow on11:22 it and they come to your door and you hand it to them. Some people some people you need to learn. Some people should only get nothing from11:34 you. Not your time, not your attention, and not, you know, working it out, not having the discussion, the debate, just give them the gift11:45 of It is a wonderful it is a wonderful skill to develop because you you have only so much11:57 something to give. Don't divide your something to people who are worthy of nothing because your something is what God has for12:08 you and they want to stop it. And the enemy will do this. And and some of you have got relationships that need to be handed a box of nothing12:20 starting now. By the way, where do they wanna where do they wanna meet with him? Anybody see this verse 2? At Kepharim in the plain of Ono. Some of you, that is not that is not a coincidence that12:32 the plain is called Ono. When the enemy calls to distract you, just say, Ono. Oh, no. No. No. No. We ain't going there. And the temptation for the people who12:44 hate you walking with Jesus, doing what God wants you to do, I can't tell you this enough. The temptation is to meet with them, sit down12:55 with them. The number of times that I've made this mistake, and I thought I could win them. I I could convince them to get on my team. I could13:07 I could win them over if I just had a moment. I would really and the number of times that I have gone to Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks or the, you know, the Target Starbucks because I13:19 wanted to shop afterwards. You know what I'm talking about. And had the meeting and thought, they all come around and they don't come around, they just try to bring me down. I13:31 just learned the hard way. Please listen to me. You've got to give those people nothing because you know that God has13:43 got you doing something. Something that matters. You can't they aren't there to help you. They are there to hinder you. Now13:55 there is a key component to this in Nehemiah's life. What does he say? I I'm carrying on a great work. Here here's what he's saying. I know what God has called me to14:07 do. So my question to you is, do you know what God has called you to do? Because if you know what God has called you to do, then you will be very discerning as to what you should and should not do and14:19 who you should and who you should not listen to and meet with and waste your time with. The answer to diversion or distraction, write this14:30 down, is conviction. Now what is a conviction? Conviction is deciding beforehand. That's what a conviction is. A14:42 a conviction is, I have decided that this is my, standard. This is my goal. This is my trajectory. This is my answer to the question14:54 so that when I run into the opportunity to get thrown off the course, I've already pre decided before the moment15:06 of decision comes. That's what a conviction is. What are your convictions? If you are single in the dating world, you should have15:18 a conviction, I will only date a Christian. Now let's up that just a little bit because anybody can call themselves a Christian. For heaven's15:30 sakes, Kanye called himself a Christian for, like, 5 years. I will only date a Christian who loves and serves the Lord.15:43 Okay? So that when I run into somebody who looks good on the outside, my decision has already been made. I won't15:54 make it in the moment because if you make your decisions about what you should do in the moment, that's not conviction, that's called reaction. And there is a there is a world of difference between living16:06 by conviction and living by reaction. Write this down. Operating by conviction means that you lead the moment. Operating by reaction means the moment leads you.16:20 Parents, before you have the child, the conviction should be, we will raise this child in church. We will be in16:32 church. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. The decision has been made before the contractions start.16:46 They picked it up better than you people over here. Yeah. I I have a guy in this church who told me this week and it blew me away. Monetarily, have you16:57 become a person of conviction or reaction? A person of reaction monetarily says, well, I'll give to God after all my bills are paid. That's reaction. Conviction is I will give to God first, and he17:09 will cover the rest Amen. Somehow, someway. And I had a guy text me this week and said, because he started a business in this church. I'm so proud of him. He said, I I realized that I wasn't tithing on the business.17:21 I'm tithing personally, but I never tithed on the business. So a couple of weeks ago, I I made a conviction decision. I'm going to tithe on the business income. 1 tenth will go to God's house.17:33 He said, pastor, this was unsolicited by me. Ever since I made the decision, the phone has been ringing off the hook with business opportunities I can't keep up.17:46 That's called living by conviction rather than reaction. Please get into this because if the devil can't get you sinning, he will get you distracted,17:58 Busy with things that don't matter. Now now here here's how it works. God, the devil can't create anything. He is not creative. He is a created being, but he18:09 does recreate what God creates. He takes and this is what he does really with God's creation. He twists God's creation to tempt you away from God.18:21 So he's not in the creation business. He's in the recreation business. And what he will do is he will subvert your18:33 assignment, what should be your preoccupation with recreation. Recreation. Recreation. This is where idolatry comes from.18:45 So a good thing becomes the ultimate thing in your life. A job is a good thing. Yeah? It could become the ultimate thing when you start to when18:57 you start to serve the job instead of serve the Lord in the job. A spouse could become a good thing. A spouse is a good thing. He who finds a wife finds a good thing. But a spouse, if you're not careful, will become19:08 the ultimate thing. A spouse's approval could lead you away from God. A a a a even if you're not married. Man, if you're not married,19:20 and their approval means more to you than God's approval. Get out. Run. Run, Forrest. Get out of that relate because that's just gonna19:32 get worse. The moment the ring is on your finger. You you the conviction has to be made before the decision needs to be made. And this is this is19:44 Nehemiah's response. I can't come down. I'm not gonna get involved in secondary matters when God has me lined up for primary19:55 matters. Second tactic of the enemy is defamation. So he will attack your character. Now now you have to20:07 understand how he attacks your character, how he undermines your life. And we see it mapped out20:19 in Nehemiah chapter 5 verse, chapter 6 verse 5. Because the way that the enemy will defame you is through other people spreading rumors about you.20:30 Look at it verse 5. So, verse 5. In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter. Now diplomatic relationships in the ancient world never had that letter open. You would close a20:41 letter, seal it with the signet of the king, and then they would send it up. This is open. This is open by design. This is intentional because the letter had it written. It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also20:52 says it that you and the Jews intend to rebel. That's why you were building the wall, and you wanna become king, and you've set up prophets, and you wanna rebel and the king is gonna hear us and notice what he says. And21:02 and so now, you know, I You almost can see this in the last line there. So come now, let's take counsel together. You almost hear Saint Ballard saying, you know, I I care about you, Nehemiah. I'm concerned about what21:13 people are saying. So, you know, I'm on your side. Right? This is the rumor mill. The enemy operates in the economy of21:25 rumor, unidentified sources, and random guys on Twitter. Watch out for this. Let me give you a phrase that21:37 you will run into that you will see that you will that you've you've got to learn to ignore by God's grace. Are you ready for it? Here's the phrase. It's just 2 words. Ready? They21:48 say, or its second cousin, I've heard. And you know it's you know it's rumor when heard becomes 2 syllables.22:03 It's not I've heard. It's I've her. I care about you, and I don't want your reputation.22:16 I'm telling you, faces are flashing in my mind right now as I'm talking. I've had this happen so many times. In fact, I have to tell you something. It's still happening. And some of22:28 you need to listen to me very carefully. Don't come at me with what you've heard. Don't come after my wife with what you've heard. Don't come to our elders with what you've heard.22:41 Because because I don't wanna hear it. Here's how the conversation goes down. Well, some people have told me that they don't and then fill in the blank. And so I say, who? And they say,22:53 I promise I wouldn't tell. Then don't tell. Don't tell. Here's what you should tell them to put on their big boy pants Yes. And come23:05 and talk to me themselves. If they can't come and talk to me, they are a problem. And you're becoming a problem. It's called secondhand problem. And you need to go back to them and tell them to speak23:17 for yourself. In fact, this is a great mantra for families. It's a great mantra for businesses, organizations, teams. It's it's a23:29 fantastic mantra. Speak for yourself. Speak for yourself. Just just say it with me on the count of 3. 1, 2, 3. Speak for yourself. Turn to your neighbor and say, speak for yourself.23:39 Speak for yourself.23:40 If you can't show up, then shut up.23:53 It's just such a manipulative tool from childish people who come at you because the reality is it's not they. It's not some big group of people. You know who it is?24:05 It's them and their cat. They're cat people. That's mostly the problem right there. Sorry. I'm24:17 sorry. Cat people, love you. Hey. I used to not be a dog person either, I got 2 dogs. So there's hope. They feel that24:29 way, and so they have decided to project those feelings through the lens of, oh, I've heard from other people, but it's always them. Now I've got the answer. I've got the answer24:41 for people who say, well, I've heard. Here it is. Here it is. This is gold. I think God gave me this this week for you. Here it is. When somebody comes to you and says, I've heard people saying about you24:52 blank, your first question is, but do you know me? And then they're gonna say, oh, yeah. I know you. Then you25:04 say, well, you should have defended me. I wanna know why you're I don't know why you're their correspondent.25:16 I'm on location here with the person that they have a problem with, and I am reporting to you live. Back to you, Jim. But why are you the on location correspondent25:27 for the grumpy pants that doesn't have the pants to put on to come and meet with me in person? Yeah? Yes. Is this helping? Yes. You can't go by that that25:40 that's a hook in the nose. The enemy wants to lead you around trying to appease figments of their imagination. Speak for yourself. Now let me tell you the25:52 underlying reality here. Verse 9 I'm sorry. Verse 8. This is Nehemiah's response. Then I sent to him saying, no such thing as you say has been done for you are, underline26:03 this, inventing them out of your own mind. I love Nehemiah. He calls it right up. This is your thoughts. And by the way, Sanballat was the governor of Samaria to the26:15 north, and so Judah to the south getting reinforced and fortified is a threat to to Sanballat. And I think that Sanballat, really, what he was saying that26:27 Nehemiah was trying to do, become king and become important, I think Sanballat actually wanted that for himself. Psychologists call this projection. You see it26:38 everywhere in our world. Projection is when people accuse you of what they know they're doing. What's in them? You see it in the political sphere big26:50 time. Projection. And you'll see this in the church, projection. And, what what it is is, before psychologists and therapists ever came up with the term27:02 projection, Jesus said it like this in Matthew 7. How can you look at the speck in your brother's eye when there's a plank in your own? Yeah. By the way, you've probably all seen or heard of27:14 preachers who have railed about certain sins from the pulpit. Most you know, they emphasize 1 particular sin. They're always on that 1 sin, and then you find out why. Cause they were involved in it. That's projection.27:26 And and and there's a bit of a self salvation, like, motivation there because here's what it here's what they're trying to do. They hate it in themselves, so if they can eradicate it out of everybody else, they almost27:37 feel justified now. Look at how much I've done to take that sin down on other people. But it's in you. And Jesus said, before you worry about other people's sin, take care of your own sin. So there are some people who27:48 will come third party you. They heard, I heard, this person said, and then you just call them out on it and say, no, that's not true, and I don't wanna hear it if they can't come and talk to me. Shut the conversation27:57 down, but understand that this is a tactic that the enemy will use to stop you from walking forward in Christ. Verse 9, look what it says. Nehemiah says, they all wanted28:09 to frighten us, thinking their hands will drop from the work and it will be and it will not be done. And, what you have to understand about the enemy is the enemy traffics in the economy of fear.28:21 Always fear and only fear. In fact, I would suggest, some of you have you ever thought about this? I have these weird thoughts as a pastor, and and I think about things, I don't know, from a different point of view28:31 sometimes. And I think, what does the devil really want from me? I know what God wants from me. I've read the word. Have you ever thought about what does the devil really want? Now some of you say, oh, that's easy, to28:41 sin. I don't think so. I think the devil wants you afraid because fear will lead to sin. Fear will lead you to walk away from God.28:54 The devil's ultimate aim for you is fear. So if you've got fear somewhere in your life, just know it doesn't come from God, it comes from the devil. The bible says that God has not given us a spirit of fear, but29:06 of power, love, and a sound mind. God does not give fear. God gives faith. If you got faith, that comes from God. Now look at the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve, they eat the fruit that they shouldn't have29:18 eaten. They jump in the bushes and they hide from God. God shows up. He looks for them. They don't look for him. Adam ran. God29:29 searched. And by the way, it's been going down that way ever since. We run. God comes looking. You didn't look for God. God came looking29:41 for you. Praise God. But he jumps in the bushes. God comes. Where are you? I I I heard the sound of you, Adam says. Genesis 3 8. I heard the sound of you.29:54 Next phrase, and I was afraid. See, this is the tool of the enemy. Fear. So that he can get you to lose faith30:06 and run from God. Some of you are running from God because you think that God is out to get you. And all I wanna say about that is you have bought hook, line, and sinker the lies of the enemy because God is not out to30:18 get you. God is out to save you. The enemy wants to get you. The thief comes to steal, kill, destroy. God wants to save you, give you life, life abundantly. But fear is the tool of the enemy. Peter says, first30:30 Peter 5 8, be sober minded, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a what? Like a roaring lion. Did you know that you can hear a roaring lion from 5 miles away? That's 1 stinking loud lion.30:42 It's a loud roar. Now I've told this to you and I've said this from the pulpit. I don't know if you've heard this. But I was always under the impression that lions roared30:54 when they were hunting so that they would paralyze their prey with fear, and then they could pounce. Have you ever heard that? It's not true.31:06 Lions don't roar when they're hunting. They're quiet. But science tells us that the reason why the lion roars is to announce this31:18 is my territory. It's not about prey. It's about rivalry. So a lion will roar to say to31:30 potential rivals, this is my land. Stay out. Which causes first Peter 5 8 to explode in my mind. Do you31:42 understand that if the lion is roaring, it's because he's not trying to eat you, it's because he's trying to intimidate you to stay out of31:54 what he claims is his. I got news for somebody in this house. The devil does not own anything in your life. God has32:05 given you all things. That territory that the lion is roaring about saying this is mine, this is mine, this is mine, you need to rise up in the authority of the name of Jesus32:17 Christ and tell that devil, get out, this is mine in Jesus' name. That's my territory. That's my child now. That's my marriage now. This is my house32:29 now. This is my church now. You can't have what God has given me. And let me tell you something else because this is so important for you.32:41 Some of you were raised on Tom and Jerry just like me. But Tom and Jerry is great entertainment, terrible theology. Because it's not the devil versus Jesus or the devil versus32:53 God. It's not the devil and God are not rivals anymore than the Bills and the Chiefs are rivals. The Chiefs always win.33:06 That's not a rivalry. But have you ever thought about this? You're the devil's rival. He's actually intimidated by you.33:18 And the reason why he roars is because he knows what you've got in Christ. And if you ever got a hold of it, if you ever got wind of it, if you ever got33:29 yourself in your spiritual heritage from heaven and you started applying it, you would kick his tail out of the territory that he's claiming for himself.33:42 And peace would come, and joy would come, and wholeness would come, and shalom would come. Don't let the devil roar you out of your inheritance.33:56 And this yeah. Amen. I love it. Amen. Except a little bit more depth. You know? So so Nehemiah in verse 9 says, but34:08 now, oh God, strengthen my hands. Here's the answer to defamation. When people attack you and vilify you, you just get more dedicated to God. So34:20 our response to defamation, write it down, is dedication. That's what Nehemiah does. Lord, strengthen my hands. I wanna work harder now. They're they're saying all these nasty rumors about me.34:32 And the great communicator, Ronald Reagan, who is a fantastic debater, by the way. Go on YouTube and look up his debates. It was hilarious. He said this in debates. He said, if you're defending34:44 yourself, you're losing. Stop defending yourself to your haters. They'll never listen. And the moment you34:56 solve 1 of their qualms, they'll come up with another 1, and it's useless. It's a waste of time. So don't waste your time defending. Start dedicating yourself more35:08 to God's calling on your life. That's what Peter says. First Peter 2 12. Keep your conduct so so honorable that when they accuse you of wrongdoing, they will see your good works, and35:20 they will glorify God on the day he visits. Technique number 3 from the enemy. Death, deception from within. If the enemy cannot use outsiders, he will35:31 then try to use insiders. And he does this in the church. Jesus said, be on your guard. Many false prophets will arise. False believers are a35:43 thing. False prophets are a thing. False pastors are a thing. And you guys need your radar up.35:55 Look at what happens in verse 10. It It says, then I went to the house of Shemaiah, the son of Deliah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home. Now I don't know if he was confined to his home because he was an36:06 invalid or paralyzed. I think he was confined to his home because he was putting on a ruse here. He was he was a he was a shut in. And it and it says this, and he said, let us meet together in the house of God within the36:17 temple. Let us close the doors of the temple for they're coming to kill you. They're coming to kill you by night. Now now a couple things about Shemaiah. He's a shut in, and I think he's what36:29 I've run into many times in the church. He's a doomsdayer. You know these people? The shoe's always about to drop. The other shoe's always about to drop. I don't know where this shoe is, but it's somewhere, and36:41 they see it, and I don't. Right? So so what they'll do is they'll say, well, you know, the market's gonna go down. Well, you know, the brush is gonna invade. Well, you know, the the tribulation. Well, you know, Jesus you36:52 know, you might as well not even you just just go in your house, just close the door, and just try to, like, live out your day. Like, that's such a that's such a weaselly way to live. It's exactly what the enemy wants to37:02 do under the guise of spirituality. Let's go to the temple. Let's play it safe. No. We don't play it safe. The scripture says we don't shrink back. We press forward. We we look yeah. The tribulation's37:14 coming. The tribulation is coming. Jesus says it's gonna be like unlike any other time on the face of the earth. And I some of you are not gonna jive with this, and I get it. And I am a post tribulation rapture guy.37:27 That means I think we're gonna be here for it. Now where do you get that idea? You get your pre trib rapture idea from a guy in England. I get my post trib37:39 rapture idea from the scriptures, but that's for another discussion. Here's the reason why you could be happy either way. If you are a pre tribulation person, you leave before it all goes down. But if you are a post37:49 tribulation person and doom is coming to the world, my bible tells me that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the lord raises up a standard against him. Jesus said to his disciples, when they bring you37:59 before kings and they try to persecute you, don't worry about what you're gonna say beforehand because the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say in the moment, which means that the harder the devil turns up the38:10 heat, the more the Holy Spirit steps up within me. I I I I don't have anything to worry about no matter what comes my way because I know God is with38:21 me. So so 1 of those doomsday guys, prophet, self proclaimed prophet. And look what verse 12 says, and I understood and saw that God had not sent38:33 him, but that he had pronounced a prophecy against me because Tobiah and Saints Pilate had hired him. Wow. This is a phony. False prophecy is a thing. Now let I've given you38:45 the they sayers and the I've herders. There's another phrase I want you to watch out for. The Lord told me. There's a lot of38:57 people do this in the church, man. And they'll say like, the Lord told me to tell you. Well, that's interesting. Why didn't he just tell me? Was the lord shy? Was the lord shy all of a sudden? He can't just39:09 come and tell me. But this is a this is a tactic. This is a manipulative phrase. If you have something to say to somebody, just say it. Don't say, the Lord told meShow more
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