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Paul Mahan

David Recovered All

1 Samuel 30:1-20
Paul Mahan May, 2 2007 Audio
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to judge me as early as you can. I'll get out of here and take
a long break and get my health. And I'll show you what it has
to do with who's really the bad one and who's really the good
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you know, Sam himself is, uh, still there. He's, you know,
still there. And, uh, everybody's still there.
William Hodges is, uh, also there. And, uh, so there's, uh, there's,
uh, there's, uh, there's, uh, there's, uh, there's, uh, there's,
uh, there's, uh, Donovan is in the office at the moment, but
I didn't get to see her. I didn't get to see her. But, uh, and, uh, I was, I was
preparing to meet some help after the service, because I cared
for a lady's family. And, uh, and, uh, PRABHUPĀDA
I didn't really think so. I was just sitting here. I was
just trying to go to the presence of the Lord. I was trying to
observe the Lord. Then I announced that I would
be a disciple of Lord Śrīla Prabhupāda. Did I? Oh, I did,
didn't I? I hope somebody read this already. But we will have to look at the
fact that there are at least two parties. There are two parties
that currently hold those things. The guy that recently voted 20, who is still waiting
to be elected on 1st January. He voted 20. And he came to pass. When David and his men were come
to Ziklag, that's the town we're living in, on the third day,
that the Amalekites had invaded the south at Ziklag, and smitten
Ziklag, and burned it with fire. and had taken the women as captives
that were there in him. They stood not against him, even
when he was small, but carried him away and went on their way. So they that entered him came
to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives
and their sons and their daughters were taken captive. Then David
and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and
wept, until they had no more power to do it. And David's two wives were taken
captive, here in the city of Isaac, and at the edge of the
rock of Bethlehem on the right. And David was gravely distressed.
The people's faith was strong in him, for the soul of all the
peoples were in him. Every man was a son to his father. But David encouraged himself
in the Lord himself. David said to Elijah, a priest,
he said to Elisha, I pray to thee, bring me hither to the
apostles. And I, for my fault, consider
it to be of great use." And David inquired of the Lord, saying,
"'Shall I pursue that which is true? Shall I obey the truth?'
The Lord answered him, "'Pursue it, for thou shalt surely overtake
it, and the last page will cover it all.'" So they planned, he and the six
hundred men that were with him, came to the Brooklyn soil, for
those that were left behind safe, but they pursued he and four
hundred men, with two hundred of both their minds, so fast,
that they could not get over the Brooklyn soil. And they found that they had
been defeated, and brought them to nature. They were bred, and
they could eat, They made him drink water. They gave him a
piece of a can of figs and two clusters of raisins, and when
he had eaten, his spirit came again to him. But he had eaten
no bread nor drunk any water for three days and three nights.
David said unto him, You have come on this path, and this our
path. He said, I'm a young man of teaching,
servant will not have it. My master left me. Because three
days had gone, I fell sick. The maiden of faith engaged him
upon the sack of the pure land, upon the coast of Jeronimo de
Judah, on the top of a hill, and burned the thick land with
fire. David said to him, Canst thou
bring me down to this place?" And he said, one man said to
the other, "'Swear unto me by God that thou wilt neither kill
me nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring
thee down to this place.' And when he had brought David down,
behold, They, the Israelites, were spread abroad on all earth,
eating and drinking and dancing, so that all the great spoils
that they had taken out of the lands of this land, out of the
lands of Israel. And David spoke to them from
twilight, even in the evening of the next day. And there escaped
not a man, but, say, four hundred young men, thrown upon camels
and pigs. And they were to be flogged off,
but the maleficent carried away. They were rescued just in time. There was nothing like them,
either small or great, neither sons nor daughters, neither to say very before those other
cats, and say, this is vengeance for us. This is the law. And God will live forever. That's
what I mean. Our Lord and our God, it is called
upon Thee in the name of the Son of Man, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of kings and Lord of lords, our Redeemer, our Redeemer, and
our great Savior. We call upon you in the name
of Him, our Protector, our Saviour. We call upon you tonight to give
honor, praise, thanksgiving, and worship to God the Lord at
the end. And here's what I'm going to
do. I'm going to sing this with my
son. I wonder how you look towards
tonight. It is hard to say. My brother has already asked,
but I'm going to have to leave him to ask a few more questions. That's how hard it is for mine
to walk tonight, to be honest with you. I walk two days in
a row. I don't know how I will do that.
This is God's calling. This is where we get our peace
and our comfort. This is how we encourage our
heroes and our God. He asks us to do what He wants
us to do for a little while. He's back for all those areas
that we fight. He said, ìFinally, there is peace,
but you will want to think it up.î And he said, ìOf course.î
The prayer for these, as we mentioned, the prayer for us is longer than
our sorrow. We look hard in our eyes for
such moments, and we care, and we throw in our life. But weíre trying, certainly,
to comfort ourselves, as we again have done in our lives. He lives
tonight, he's right here in Christ's name. He's in the grave, you
know, but he'll be aware of it in a minute. So we're in on the
407th. 407th period. The conquering
now, and still the conquering. All right, I can see you. I can see you on the 11th. All
right. So just follow him. I hope you have four minutes.
♪ The first star in the night ♪ ♪ The first star in the night
♪ ♪ The first star in the night ♪ ♪ The first star in the night
♪ ♪ The first star in the night ♪ ♪ The first star in the night ♪ and leader, hearing all things
we say. As we surround him with gladness,
as we shake his salvation, into the hands of faithful, he will
be promised his praise. Falling down and still droppin'
through our little dreams. In our easy dreams, learning
all we may see. In our good and free minds, There's a garden for heaven,
where angels will shine. There's a rock, it's a mantle,
that will stand in our way. There's a true land of faith,
Lord, if we promise faith. Oh Thank you very much. Thank you. We're going to sit here now,
slowly, tonight, and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, and
the day after tomorrow, but all the spoils will be by the evening.
And the importance is there to prove
that, that they all are connected back to life. And so we're going to tell half
the story tonight, and I'm going to tell you half that's never
been told. A lot of times, that's just because you're not terribly,
very sure you're told. This story must be looked at
two ways. This is a true story, a real
story, a story of a man named David. The more important is
the story of his son of David, his son of God, Jesus Christ. And both of these stories are
popular. We want to look briefly at this
story both ways. Here's David's story. Whose story?
Our story. This is our story. Now, you see,
we saw Sunday, how David got himself in this mess. David,
through his own unbelief and sin, got himself and others in
a terrible mess, a terrible trouble, but only God could do that. And the Lord did
this. The way the Lord did this was
not the way that David would have done it, but the Lord did
it by turning everything and everyone in sin. The reason the Lord did that
was to show him that a sick flag is not your continuum of the
city. It's not where you belong, not the people you belong with,
at least for this case and all that. You belong back in Jerusalem.
That's where you're going to get some of that disgusting,
disgusting, disgusting. And so it is with God's people,
all of God's people. Our Lord said to all of His people,
this is a promise, this is not a possibility. They're promised. He said, "...in this world ye
shall have tribulation." He said, "...a man's image," a man's image,
that is a believer, "...his enemies shall be those of his own household."
So don't be surprised. Our Lord said, Marvel on, brethren,
that the world hate you. The world. And they all turned
to Him. He said, Blessed art thou, brethren,
in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And
say, all men are equal to Him. You fall asleep on that name,
but you're blessed. Why? Because that makes you like
that. And the Lord tells all His people
that we will have their delight in Him because we're not ugly
for it. We're looking, I know. We have here no conceit in the
city, so does the people that live here. It's just a way of keeping us
conscious of this truth that we don't, we're not staying here.
That's the truth. Maybe we can pass it through
to this guy. He spends too much. He shouldn't even attend it. Sometimes, as in the case of
David here, sometimes before you can draw the wisdom of this
person, a certain one, certain people, his people, must go through
great trials to learn great lessons, to prepare them for the great
preparations of great things, like this. And he'd just come,
he'd just hanged back, he was sick like, out of trouble. You
remember that story something? The Lord delivered him from doing
something that was wrong. Oh, great reproach on him. Yeah. The Lord got him out of
that trouble, didn't He? He got in trouble thoroughly.
Now he's in for the greatest trial of his life. He's, uh, he's late 20, by now. He's in for the greatest fire
of his life. He comes home, and the enemies
in our house have destroyed the city that he lived in. Luther Corley has taken his lives
away, and all of his children, and all of his earthly possessions.
Does this sound familiar to you? Something's going on here. Good
story. And he says in our text here,
in Ephesians, he says that when the first four
said, they were the people that lifted up their voice and wept,
that means they cried and wept out loud until they had no more
power. Have you ever wept in that way? We have no more power. It's a true story. I can tell
you that. It's a true story. It's a real
man, real sin, real trouble, real sorrow. He's got power in
him. Power in him. He says he was
great in his church. Great. He was great in his church. There have been great ministers
of God. God. God. I never, never knew God. What's he going to do now? What's
he going to do? What is he going to do now? When you get so far down, As
far down as you can go, where are you going to live? I don't know how many of us are
on the Mount of Olives. They say, I'll lift up my eyes
and see a mist up my neck. My health is coming.
From the Lord. David, it says, encouraged himself,
and then the Lord is come. David did, Michael did, he worshipped. After everything was taken from
him, there was just one great thing. Eli, everyone knows, when
they came to Eli, all that terrible news to his sons, they said,
what can you say? But it was the Lord, they knew
what to do. And they came to Joseph and told
him all of that, and he said, who is he? And the message, after
the message came, the message was from him. There was a kid
that came to me, and he talked, and I saw it in his eyes. And then he worked his sweet
shit for the Lord's sake. And the Lord didn't think twice. The Lord told Isaiah, "'I, the
Lord, do all these things.'" He told him this. "'See now,
see there, that I in my being, I feel I'm a God. I raise up
my hand to you. I, the Lord, do all these things. I, the Lord, I am your God.'" But David encouraged himself,
and the Lord did not. He did not. Now, look at verse 7. David said
to a Bipartisan priest, a Himalayan son. Now, a Bipartisan was going
to turn to his father. Do you remember this story? Huh? Do you remember a Bipartisan
story? His dad, a Himalayan, was one
of the many that saw that father. He's no stranger to trouble.
He's entertained. He's a good person to be with.
And he said to Levi, for I pray that they bring me here to the
ephod. The ephod was pretty small. And I prayed, and they said,
bring him here. And they brought him here to
David, the ephod, and David is fired at the Lord. David's going
to speak the Lord. They're just going to seek the
Lord. What shall I do? He asked the Lord. What shall
I do? Shall I pursue that ministry?
Shall I overtake them? And the Lord answered him, Thou shalt. He said, Pursue. Pursue, for
Thou shalt surely overtake them. And without fail, you'll set
them right. Now, he encouraged himself in
the Lord his God, what the Lord has done always. Of course, he
has infinite wisdom and great purpose, but he's done all this
to be nice. Now, he brought himself into
this mess so he would give him what he felt like he deserved,
yet the Lord did, according to his purpose, for a living man. Even then, his following the
sin was the Lord's purpose, right? You can't blame the Lord, but
you can encourage yourself in the Lord. that even our sins,
somehow, raise the death of all of the Lord Jesus Christ and
the Catholic Church. And it's very simple. It's God's very plan. Heaven, arguably,
is very simple. It's God's plan. What came out
of that? The great sorrow of the first,
but afterwards, the great triumph. So, is that the Lord's will? Well, David said, What shall
I do? And the Lord said, Pursue, thou
shalt not come at all. So David lost everything, but
the Lord reassured him. The Lord reassured him in saying
he would get it all back. You lost it all. You got yourself
in despair, and that's why all this is happening. But I'm reassuring
you, I'm telling you right now, you're going to get it all back.
I'm going to get it all back. And as Scripture says, in Adam
all died. Every one of us was sent to die.
We're sinners. We're sinners. And we weep. We weep awfully.
Our sins are little bits. Are you with me? I'm a little
tired. I know it's hot. We're going to stand up here.
We're going to stand up here. Did Adam always die? Always die,
yes. Everything we own, everybody
we love dies. You know that? Everything we own will die. It's
all corrupt. It's all rotten. It's all dying. Everything we love is going to
die. Did Adam always die? Very much. That's all we know. He lost it all in the garden.
He lost it all. Can you imagine Adam's sorrow? Do you know how long that would
have? After what he did to the donkeys? Huh? No, we don't. The Lord took him out of paradise
and said, put me in the kingdom of the Lord again. And don't
you know, he was so sorrowful, so sad. The Lord took him and
said, what have I done? What have I done? Why did I do
that? And then he went over and saw his son's brain patched down,
and said, Why can't I have that pain myself? Didn't he? You know
how long he must have wept? That
age once? He lost it all for that. He lost it all
for that. Our Redeemer. Give to the Redeemer. He'll give it all back. Move. He'll give it all back. The Lord Jesus Christ. I now
really want to encourage you in the Lord and our God, the
Lord Jesus Christ. Have a look at His story. That's why this is great. That's
why this is great. The story of Christ and David
and the story of the king. Now, the story of Christ is just
this, that the sons of God, So is the doctrine. Do you know
that? It's easy. The wives of Christ, the bride of Christ,
were all taken captive by sin. All taken captive by Satan. Amen. All in the world, living in the
world, they're all in fear of death and subject to bondage.
All of them. You ever wonder why the Lord
Jesus Christ wept at Latter-day Saints? He came to the tomb of
his dear friend, Lazarus, with whom he ate bread constantly,
sat and held many days and nights on end of pleasant conversation
with his beloved brother, Lazarus, and Martha and Mary. What a good
time they enjoyed together. And now the Lord comes to the
tomb of various life-giving men by various orders. And He says
He will. So in His first mystery, He's
the Lord. They said, they're all angry.
Yeah, why is he weeping? Because all that he's lost, because
he's in distress, because, you know, there's nothing he can
do, nothing. Did everyone in my world laugh
at that? Yes, he does. He loves me, and
he lost that communion for a while. But he wept because of what sin
had brought upon this human race. What it all comes down to, What
sin has brought upon this human race? That's the way it's supposed to be. It really
is. So in the end, I just went back
in the virgin mountains. You want a reminder of where
it all comes down, what sin has done to the human race, still
to this day. It hasn't happened. It's a different
aggregation. Sight, sound, smell, taste of somebody you love. So I pray. So I pray. And like David, the Lord said
unto his Lord, the Lord said unto my Lord, Shall I go to earth? Huh? In the beginning, before,
you know, God's known unto God all His works from the beginning.
He saw all this. He knew all this. He purposed
all this. And with the Father, He said, Shall I go to earth?
Shall I pursue this truth? Huh? Shall I overtake them? God
said, Pursue. Huh? And what else did He say? Thou shalt surely overtake them,
was that what He said. Thou shalt surely... What was
said of David is said of David's sons. Thou shalt surely overtake
them, overcome them, and without fail recover all. I'm sending
you to earth. I'm giving you a piece of slack.
I've chosen them. I've chosen them for the world
again. And I'm sending you to bury these ones, bury the liquorers,
to deliver them from captivity. So these captives will be captives.
And you'll recover all. And thou shalt surely recover
all. Without fail, recover all. And I love, oh how I love, Isaiah
42. Isn't that great? And that great
prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ, I behold my servant, I elect
him, he said, he shall not fail me, nor will he disturb me. Nor will he disturb me. The Lord
never will at one time disturb me. If you really had good, you could
have done this. Now, when the Amalekites, listen
to this, when the Amalekites and the enemies of the Lord took
what belonged to David, listen to this now, when they took what
belonged to David, when they took David's wives and his children,
they attacked David. And they attacked the wrong man,
now look at this, huh? When you attack David, you attack
the wrong man. Now, if you'd have come today
for mercy, if you'd have come today to know my works are done
and asked me for mercy, I could pretty much guarantee, lay off
the truth of that. Lay off. Advocate. Whoever came
today for mercy, they came in the right manner. He's a man
of God's own heart. It doesn't matter what you are or who you
are, he's going to come to you for mercy. He'd ask for it. They'd
be attacking you. You'd be attacked as well. Now, this is a man's man, isn't
it? Everybody likes a hero. Everybody wants a hero. I haven't
seen one in years. Who is it? Oh, Jesus Christ. This is a man's man, a people's
man. Man, you would have walked under
the rest of these kids if you were lost, wouldn't you? If somebody
said you'd be captive, who'd you want to come out of here?
Nathan never lost anybody. He wouldn't be. Yes, he didn't
lose one man or another. He's a Christian, and he's a
pioneer in most of these things. I just saw a story, a time during
World War II. There was a Japanese prison war,
uh, prison, uh, in, uh, it still exists in Japan. Japan had a
conference with the children, Oklahoma children. And there
was a prison there, so the American prison was there. And they excluded the children, excluded the children
of the Japanese. 500 of them left the prison. Whether
the United States government, the President, and I don't give
a damn, they got together, and they said, we're going to do
this, and we're going to do this, and we're going to do that. And they
found a man named Hitler, who had committed a delusion of life,
and they started on the young one. And either way, they turned
on Hitler. Who cares? And they said, uh, we're here
to do some in, and we want you to come through and give a hand. And just like
110, 120 men were being gravely outnumbered by around 1,000 American
soldiers. And do you know they brought
510 men? Not one. That's a man, isn't it? Is that
who you want coming to get you? I'll tell you who God sent. A man. A man. If God sent somebody
to earth, someone to earth to take his people, he sent a man. This is why our Jesus is so different
from the Aeon and the people. I don't know why anybody would
call on Jesus. Our Savior is a man. I mean a man in every sense of
the word. He's entitled to save. Behold
the man. God sent the God-man, a strong man, a man-man, a captain.
Here is that thing. Lord, who would not rest. David
is not going to rest until he, until at the end of this book,
they went six hundred of them, right? Two hundred of them were
so cranky, they couldn't talk to him. He said, you stay here.
He's a merciful man. He's going to six hundred. And
the ones who stayed behind are going to get all of the ones
who, they're all going to be saved. David talked to those
who did. That's right. They're all saved. But David would rest until his job was finished, and neither
did our Lord Jesus Christ. They told him often, "'Lord,
eat something.'" He said, "'I am eating.'" You know, the boy
at the cross, our Lord didn't sleep for 30 days. He would not
rest until his job was finished. He would not and could not be
stopped by anything or anyone until he met with other officers.
And then hanging on that cross, the other soldiers finally were. I'd love for maybe that he had
the most recidivizing power. And maybe to discuss, to talk
about the death, he should accomplish. Who's dead? Well, the death of
death. The death of the prince of the
power of man. Spiritual wickedness is not dead. The death of death.
His own death, yes, but it doesn't matter. What's the problem? Now, look at verses 10 and 11.
They just took the men with them, two hundred and thirty-nine.
They just took the men with them. They just pursued them, four
hundred dead. And the Lord has had many men, and angels. So He has used Michael in this
case, hasn't He? He sent me and my vision and
the gospel, all of them representing Him. Every great man in the scripture
represents the Lord Jesus Christ. Whatever story you read about
a great man, go ahead and look at him as Christ. That's why
that story was written. Jesus is the Lord Jesus of. He's
done this year. You read that in the Bible. What's
this all about? We don't have much time to do
any of this. But this young Egyptian, deserted
slave, sick, he's left for dead. He's from the world, Egypt. He's
captured by this heathen. He got sick, and he's left to
die. That's what's going to happen. Now, what do you think that's
going to do? That's all the message in itself,
isn't it? It's still a young world, and as many kids as my
age are out here, just half-served free, so they're ready to be
accomplished. He said that a few times later.
He stopped drinking, stopped doing business. He didn't make
a big deal of it, Carol didn't worry about it. Carol, he's going
to find it. He's going to find it. He's going to find a way. But the more I look at his story,
that's a big thing to me. This great conqueror coming through,
and he's talking to him, and he's watering. And he found and
brought to David, and Peter found and brought to Christ, and he
fed and he watered. And this young man asked David
for mercy. He said, I'll sell everything. If there's not a thing I ought
to be looking for, probably a few years after I'm married and have kids. There we go. Dave,
did you ever date that person? Oh, he's not over it. He's not taking
the spoils. Well, here's what I'm saying. Alright? Here's what
I'm saying. You listen to this? We're talking
about a man, buddy. A man you can look up to. Here comes David. Here comes David, verse 16. Look
at it. When he brought them down, behold,
they were spread abroad. These Amalekites were spread
abroad on the earth. They were spread out all over
the earth, it seemed like, as far as you could see, with all
these Amalekites, these enemies of David. Eating and drinking
and dancing and having a good time because the spoil had got
out of hand. Eating and drinking. Great sport. Oh, we're in good shape now,
aren't we? Everything's wonderful. Look
at what all we've got. And the more they drank, the
more they ate, the more they mocked God. They knew who these
were. Abrogators over there. They had abrogators with them.
They knew who to do stuff this long, didn't they? People in
the world, you go to church, don't you? Where is your God? And they mocked
him, Nancy. They mocked him. And I'll tell
you what, I heard it in Washington all the time in the past. Sitting up on the hill. Can I
say it that way, Mark? That's what a man says. Huh? Somebody's standing up on a hill
watching him. Mocking him! Fancy and electric. He don't love him. This is a madman. He doesn't
know that he's a God-hater and he's envious. God ain't gonna
kill him for doing something like that. This is the Lord Jesus
Christ, John. This is the Christ in the picture.
You attack this people, and you reject this son, and you think
you've got away with it, and the whole world laughs and mocks,
but he won't. Look at all the scores we got.
Look at what we trained. This is a true story, and what
I've just told you about Jesus Christ is a true story. He said heaven and earth are
passable. All these stories are passable. Thank you, God. All
of this is gone. He said not one word about it. It will not
come. In the volume of the book he's
written, though, I'm telling the story. That's the motive. He was so merciful to me. This guy was in on this all.
Of course he was. He said, I was in on it. We weren't leading. Martin said,
why? David said, it's because we're not ready for this stuff. He's a critic. What's he made of me? I'm a critic,
so what? So it was there. So David says, David, verse 17,
the first, verse 17, that he was so thin, from fly heart,
he went into the deep sea, and the next day there stayed not
a man. Not one man stayed. Not one. That's P.E.L.V.E.N.T.S. The American Medical Council. The American Medical Association. That is authentic. The American
Medical Association. At least this is a nice little
sign that's moving on to P.E.L.V.E.N.T.S. Is it out of focus? Oh, it's P.E.L.V.E.N.T.S. This
is why I always say that this is not just a business, I'm talking
about a living person. My religion here is not to take
away from this true doctrine or a tired doctrine. It is what
it means. It is what it means. We're talking
about a real person who lives on this planet and ain't deemed.
Now either he is or he isn't. Either what he says is true.
He's either God or he's not. He's basically an apostate who
doesn't believe. Now if he is God and everything he says is
true, the world's going to hurt! And we're in for a great blessing. So support us. And I'm here to save you. I'm
here to save you. And He is. He is. That's why I'm here. John Solomon
said, I'm here to put you dead and not alive. You go back and
you tell my brethren I'm alive, a living God. It's like you said,
a living God, brethren. They have referred themselves
and come forward to a living God. We want the truth of a living
God, not a life, not a concept, not a doctrine, but a person
who claims to be a living God. If you name that, that's a living
God. That's a living God. And there's
a time, a point, when you get older, the eyes of today's little
boy, the eyes of the Lord, and the eyes of his child, the sons
of men, there's a time for it. Today is a very selfish, dark
day. The door is open, the door is
open. I had to do in that last seven days before the door closed.
I've been there. I've heard of it. I've heard of it. And David spoke to him, and not
one of them escaped, except one of the Elijahs escaped, and he
met him. The Lord Jesus Christ, as it
says, He said unto them, long before you had, He said, tell
them, to open his mouth. He said, you comfort my people.
Fortunately, I'm not as successful as I was last time, so I'm glad to be here. And the Lord, in all fairness and
confidence, said, He is with you, and He is with you. I want
to come to where all that remains, all the sin, all that's gone
on today is Here's the Lord, right here is the Lord. And to this
man, here he is, verse 18, David is recovered He didn't lose one, he got one.
There was nothing like him to them. He was small and great.
In other words, they didn't lose a symbol. Not afraid. It's just a familiar
story. Remember when Moses was getting
ready to lead the people out of Egypt? Remember he said that
Pharaoh said, leave behind your cattle. It's not going to be
a good thing. And when we go out of here, God
says, God is with us. That's our God. That's our God. Our God is with us right now.
Our God is with us now. All his wives, if you're his
wife, he's not going to lose you. There's no running from
those two. He can't run from you. He can't
run from nobody. That's the fact of the world.
That's the fact. His mother makes a mistake, his
father makes a mistake, his husband makes a mistake, but you've got
a husband. He said, where's your divorce? He said he made it out of nature.
And when he did, he got the money. And he was up at all. David rescued
his two wives, and he said that if they were neither small or
great, his sons or daughters, he would spoil them or anything
that they could do to them. David was up at all. He sounded
like great to everybody he met. Marcus and Lawrence wrote this
kind of update with all they had money. Just by design. David recovered all, David rescued
his wife, David spoke to him, this is David's choice, he said. That's why I said that. This
is David's power. This whole thing, this whole
thing is salvation. Christ simply said when he had
by himself And God doesn't mention anybody's charity. I mean, charity
is all we have. They just got all the gold, Margaret,
for this whole facility. And the Lord uses me in that
way. And He uses us in the physical practice of the Lord. He gives us that way.
He sanctifies us that way. When it's all said and done, He wears us. He gives us
what He gives us. What He gives us. Amen. Okay,
we're going to pray. This is the first time we've
got anybody get on with us. Thank you. Our God, who art in
heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will
be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive
us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Give us this day our daily bread. No longer nothing is winning, but
there is. Now that's won. Now that's conquered. The whole thing is won. Victoria
is won. I'm telling you now. We've buried ourselves in this.
And, Lord, we ask that You bring this back to mind as we walk
out into the world and somebody do that. And bring this back
to mind as our gospel overall, to You, Lord, to all of You.
And we're very proud that we're able to come out here and worship
You and encourage ourselves and take this. So it's all said and
done, and we gather for faith, and that's the way to marry a
sufferer. you
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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