And when I need you to be here,
standing by my side, I'll be there. I'll be there standing by your side,
I'll be there. That fellow was a masterpiece. At that verse, my anchor holds
within the bank. My anchor is within the bank. All right, back to Ursula, chapter
four. Here's the fourth. I thought
about, you know, the captains of England. Let me once again remind you
why we're studying this. It's a clear picture preface. Number one, it's God's Word and
it's worthy of much study and consideration, isn't it? And it mirrors, it's a mirror
of what has happened and is happening in the Church. God has always saved his people
so much. And what took place with the
children of Israel in taking place of their covenant? That's why, because it's relevant.
And to encourage us. We study this in order to encourage
us and warn us. Like the prophets. All the prophets that wrote our
books. encouraging people, like Haggai's
effort, encouraging people to go along with it. And warning them not to turn
aside. Don't let anything turn you from
this course. Look straight on. And we need encouraging through
to not turn from the course that we're in, that is preaching eternity,
not to know anything. It's for the only thing. To be
taken up with anything that crosses the crucifixion. Right? That's
the course. That we set in ourselves. And
we should, we think, it's the course. To know the thing and
to jump into it, that's the course. And that's the course we're going
to set. All right? Then the people of land weaken
the hands of the people of Judah, and trouble them in hired counselors against him
to frustrate their purpose. He says that it was all the days
of silence, that is, from the time it was decreed until the
reign of Goliath. In other words, from the very
outset, when the building began to be built, all the way until
it's finished, They have nothing to tell you. Tribulation, persecution,
everybody trying to stop it. Now that's a picture of it. That's
a clear picture. It's always been this way. It's
always been this way. God's people have said you must
go through God's tribulation in order to get into heaven.
He said the kingdom of heaven suffered violence. It's always been this way, that
those who know and love and believe the truth have always been a
small minority and hated and persecuted by the rest of the
world. It's the same. You take Noah and his family
as an example in this. I start taking about examples
of Noah's blessing in a small group and say, but I was Noah. You go back to Noah. Scripture
says Noah was a preacher, but it's not. A preacher of righteousness,
on the side of it. A preacher of righteousness. 120 years, he would be preached. Righteousness. Who's righteousness? My God's righteousness. He prays
for holy, and sovereign, and just God. That's where the focus
really is. My God's holy. Huh? You get that? That's the whole
focus of that note. Because God is holy, and God
is just, and he's a righteous man. That's what all the preachers
agree. Now, what does it tell you? One
message. Give me just one message. God
is holy, God is just, salvation's in that ark. And I guarantee
you he may do that work for you. six, seven hundred years and
not know something about the Gospels? Huh? Well, are you? You're the representative. I've
lived 913 years. You reckon I know a thing about
the Gospels? Well, sure you do. You're the one that may represent
the Gospels, too. What it meant to Paul and John,
the Methodists, and anything. You can know it, too. That's
what nobody else here knows. We're asking, how many people
are you approaching? How many people are you talking about? Eight people. That's an amazing
number. Eight people. It's true that
when it happens, God is not going to destroy the whole planet. Out of eight people. That's it. That's my favorite thing, that's
it. The meaning of God. Like we said,
know what God is doing. The air, the air that's here,
that's everything. Well, in Matthew 24, listen to
this. In Matthew 24, when I have my
breakfast, not breakfast. In Matthew 24, our Lord says,
in the eyes and the bodies of men, so forth, so on. Give me bread. Now he's not just talking about
when he said that in America, he's talking about the Holy Spirit. Isn't that right? Give me savings
later, when the Son of God comes, when he comes back. Huh? Remember what he said? That's the Spirit of the Lord.
And look at all the churches, and all the monasteries, all
over the world, where he said it, and not him. But the God
of the Church found it through him. The other statement was, uh,
that's the way John was being. Because as we've been looking
at this, the gospel is offensive to the natural man. Be that so.
It's hurtful. It's offensive to the natural
man. And God's heard it. He said, all those who believe
it and preach it will be healed. He said that, didn't he? No,
yes, ands and buts about it. He said, you shall be healed. By who? Oh, man, I know it's
not right. Ain't it? And he said in another place,
something wrong, wrong is on the end of man's suffering. Now I say all that to encourage
my faith, because sometimes I think I'm being too narrow. Sometimes I think that, you know,
two colors and two narrows make it more, you know, more character. This looks texturized in fact. John says, we have got a whole
world locked in with us. This is what they think about
it. All the people. It says, look
at verses 7 through 10. In the days of Artaxerxes, he
wrote this one, this one, I'm not going to read all of that.
It says, all these mighty and noble people, chancellors, scribes,
these were the learned people, somebody. I know them enough,
you know, the professors, the lawyers, the teachers. and I
don't know, somebody, and I don't know." He says, "...for fear
of the rest of the nations." They all got together. They all
got together against this one bad group. Now, what will they do now? What
will they say? What were they saying? What were
they doing now, didn't they? What were they saying now? Aren't
they just saying what God said? Aren't they just saying and doing
what the King told them to say? Huh? Remember? Remember? Remember the texts? Peter pouring
a little tissue. Peter said, and if you hold it
in tight enough, it'll look better. And he said, uh, Dennis, he said,
uh, what do you think it's like when we do what they've got to
do? Huh? God said this, wasn't it what
he did? Isn't that so? He said, we didn't have to speak
the things we came to do. And by God's grace, we're going
to do it. They're going to open our mouths. And that's, you know, what would
I do? No one? Well, everybody got together
and they wrote this letter. Look at those letters. They wrote
this letter to this evil king, and I can't accept it. This was
the king. He suffered. on the throne. His aunt, who was the wife of
this fellow, he was with the Persian king, and these were
his spiked shoes. Remember? Remember these spiked
shoes that he looked at? His spiked shoes. He said, look,
do you know what that says? Look at that. It's like a hand.
Remember that? And the whole world, all these
other people, they appealed to this evil king to stop this murder. They appealed to the deceitful
king to stop this murder. He wrote, you told me to stop
the slaughtering now. Now it gets written down. God saved us from the religious
discrimination that he gave us. He said, you're up, you're caught,
you're dead. Well, that was a hard blow to
deal with. Well, they're going to have to figure it out, aren't
they? Remember that? They kept saying
that to me. I don't remember that. Moses, remember? I kept saying to him, if you
love me too, you'd love me. Did you listen to Moses? Do you
love me? No. He said, no, you're not a
God. You're not a God. Well, there's an eight-peak appeal
to this evil king. And this sounds hard in my opinion,
and I've got to say that. When he got up to that message,
I went, well, I'm sure it should reflect about what he said and
how I said it. And before tonight's message,
it did the same thing. But I don't want to be hard for
the sake of being hard, because I'm trying to exclude anybody.
And I'm telling you, this does It excludes all of us. And, but the fact is, most men
live in pity to a false start. That's just that. And I think
that it's over a period of, I would say, season B, and most men,
and I'm not fact-checking it, but the majority of it, religious
people, they're all without pity. Now, here's their petition, look
at verse 12. Verse 12, they say, Be it known unto the king that
the Jews which came up from thee to us, a town in Jerusalem, in
Jerusalem, building a rebellious and bad city. Now, don't go to
the king, gentlemen, and say, this is a bad place. This is
a bad place. Don't you remember it was a bad
place? They set up the walls there, you know, to join the
foundation. You know, a lot of folks just
keep talking about tearing down walls. A couple of folks start building
them. Separation, not joining. Verse 13, it says, "...be it
known now unto the king," and they continue to complain, "...that
if this city be built, In the world today, they're not going
to take note and forgive and trust them. What they're saying to the world
is, they're not going to join with us. They won't take note. If they won't join with us, they
won't unite with us. They're bad dogs. Don't you know
it? Mad dogs. That's what they are. Well, they won't join in our
canning ride meeting. They won't join our Jesus celebration. Victor won't join our ministerial
association. He won't come to our prayer practices. Mr. Robert will be sitting right
up there. He won't come to our prayer practices. That's exactly what they say. What's that for me? I thought
about it, but I never got to do it. They want John with us, you know,
the church over there, and they don't want him. They won't get him in that garlic
world that he lives in. Well, I've been blessed to be
a Christian. I've been blessed to be a Christian. I've been blessed to be a Christian. We were to be suppressed. We
were to be suppressed. You know what? That's just what
I thought. That's just what I thought. I don't know what you thought. But I want to show you three
things. And that's what became better.
Not only that, but it became better because the South African
did it. It changed the fabric of the world. It changed how
we do things. That's the secret. It's best
for me. trained, or been trained on God,
trained on Christ. It's worth it just to have a
common thing, to be proud of what you've been trained with,
because you've been trained by the cross, by Christ, the man
of Christ. Their religion doesn't allow
the man, the mother of the man, to be put down in such degrading
places. It's a sin. And you can't get out of that
line, can you? Well, verse 14 makes those
of you who are too clever to use it. Why, verse 14? Verse
14, look at it. Now, because we have life in
us, don't eat it. We're on the straight road. Let
us go. And so it is. Wouldn't I go into conviction
now? Our means are not ready to give
up their principle duty. That message is first going to
send you back with these threats of destruction and destruction.
But we're going to send you back with all of these threats of
destruction. I've told you I've got 57 threats
of destruction. And Greg, he began a new picture
of himself. He just, he just laughed right
out of it. And uh, and he got this sort
of out of his bone marrow, the blood just rushed out of his
throat. Greg was really blue. And I just saw a picture of him and
I said, by the way, Red down there in the Bronx,
he had a $4,000,000 savings, something I don't care, $10,000.
$10,000, just to make the clubhouse. That place over there, Pitchfork,
had $2,000,000 worth of property. $2,000,000! Did you hear that? $2,000,000! This is property in the land
of God. This is the kingdom of heaven. And the Lord sent him to teach
them everything. So that's that. It's just that.
That's what it is. That's part of it. Now I can
tell you a secret where it comes from. That Lord gives them things
in which we can't control. It's got to be false. It's got to make a mistake to
be free. And he's not willing to do that himself. He's not willing. That's what
he's trying to say here. Huh? That's what he's trying
to say here. We're on payroll. We serve people. Don't look at verse 15 and 16.
If you're afraid, then keep them quiet in verse 15 and 16. If
we said unto you, they said, that the church might be made
in the book of the records of the parliament, you're going
to find in the book, you're going to find that this city is a rebellious
city, has been from the beginning. And that's what it does at the
beginning. It means it's additional. We're going to say it over and
over again. Verse 16, we said about the beginning,
if this city is built at the beginning, and God has set up
the beginning, now we won't have any problems on this side of
the earth. If this city is built, now we're
not going to do no business. That's right. You're going to
find in such a book that these people don't accept people of
God. They're believing things, right?
They've excluded everyone and everything but what they believe,
exactly like they believe. If everybody was like them, religion
would be out of business. Well, so the King says. It was true. Look at this. 1 Corinthians 9, verse 19, I
command it, and church was made, and it speaks for our town, that
this city of old, verse 19, this city of old, had no insurrection
against kings, and rebellion, and sedition, but against all
kings personally, but mighty kings over there, their kings,
King of the Jews that ruled over here, they paid tribute to him.
Did you know about that? In other words, they do. They
reject every king of their own. They don't pay tribute to any
king but King of Jews. How fair is that? Isn't that right? That's Paul saying so many words.
That's the way that I worship, for I believe. For I worship
the God of my fathers, the Lord. Belief in the Lord, that's what
I believe in. Anyone say they ain't ever
seen, but they never did. What? They never did. Well, verse 21
here, it says, well, give them in. This evil king says, give
them in. Cause this building to cease. And it did not build. Cause it
to cease. Now, verses 23 and 24, it says,
the copy of the letter from the king was read, and the great
thing, it says, the last line of verse 23, by force, they came
on. in the workspace. The workspace? It's over here,
isn't it? It's over here. There's several pictures of it,
you know that? There's several pictures of it.
You can see it's just the office area thing, and the lawn, and
so forth, and the workspace. Uh, I thought about a small group
like this. A small church, like this one. And they'd be, uh, most self-embraced
churches. A small, uh, small group like
this. You know, when you tell the story
of the church, and you know it's still happening, you suddenly,
uh, And people, my little picture, this little picture is a 10-pence.
And I told the people, I said, oh, it's $14,000,
$14,500, and I'm going to give it to you. I'm going to give
it to you. The world would say, oh, thank
you. If you know you come back to
a great church someday, we're going to try to get you. Oh,
God. That's easy. It's hard. No one will say, God. Be good. God can't be wicked. I think about this now, non-perversity. That's what the word would tell
you, non-perversity. Because the word tells you, but
then you use that number. That's exactly what I think is
happening. Is it growing? At college it was, I didn't say
it, but it's coming. Is it growing? Yes. Embraced in the knowledge
of that very fact. Then I was adding such as should
be said, what we know now, for example, Well, dear, this flower, now
that the grace of the Savior appears to be not of God, I thought
about this. If you ask the Lord one day,
over there around John 14, verse 18, how long did it take? It
was a year, a year and a half. A year and a half is very, very
short. And it's meant to be like that. That's God. And how does God
look like to you? Huh? Well, God's in you, all
right? God's in you to fix everything. Well, I thought about my own
spiritual growth. Each one of us individuals. You
know, we're the house of God. Each one of us is a typical God.
We keep doing it. I thought about my own spiritual
growth, or the lack of it. And it appears that I'm not making
any progress. Do you feel like that? That's
what I want you to hear about, okay? Because it's been weird.
Don't you feel like it hasn't stopped? I'm not running anymore.
Huh? It stopped. No. No. It stopped the time you bought
your house. When you bought the middle of
the expiry. And it becomes, right? And when you look at the middle
of my house, it becomes, it becomes, it goes over the median price,
you know, it becomes... And you walk the whole day, and
you think, what did he talk about? Nothing I could have heard. How
many times did he talk about that? I didn't hear anything
like that. But if somebody else was there, and somebody else
had been walking around, I'd say, wow, what a great talker
she was. Huh? I'd say anything he's going
to do. I hope he'd say anything. I hope
I've done what he's put out there. You know, it's all right, perfect,
you know. You think that's good? No, that
works quite well. I see it. Why? Why is that? Because
Jesus has to know that it's working, and He's doing it. He's doing
it. It's working. All right, but
the real picture here now, though, is the big one. The big picture
is the big picture. This is God's building of the
church, all right? And it seems in times past that
God's purpose has been broken, that it has been stopped. Doesn't
matter. It seems like it was done through
time, but it's been turned to look like it's stopped. And many of these old paperwork
stuff, they look like it's stopped. Now look at it. You still haven't given it back,
you know? You still haven't given it back.
You know, most of the time it seems like people don't work
for me, you know, not me. Not me. What's wrong? What's
wrong? Now I don't need to check the
time, what's wrong? Now let's say that the work stops.
Check the time, what's wrong? The work stops. Then what happens? God sent to us. This is how we are going to start
the work coming from the Lord, and this is how it begins. This
is how the people are encouraged, and this is how it goes on. The Word of the Lord is God. God sent man. Right? And I hope
you, well you did read the Bible a bit more accurately. But in
chapter 5, verse 1, the prophet Zechariah, the prophet in Zechariah,
the son of Edom, prophesied that there would be Jews and Jews
in Jerusalem in the name of God of Israel even after death. What
did they prophesy? The death of Zechariah. What did they preach that spared
the people of Israel? What did that come down on the
people? That caused the people to take courage, and strengthen
them, and absolutely defy all opposition to them, and just
go get them. What was it? Let me point that
out. It's here. It's your freedom. In other words, all those things
about the White House, that whole thing's about two rubber balls.
Isn't it? It says the word there, 2 is
irrevocable. Turn back over there to Haggai. Haggai chapter 2. This whole
thing was written, 2 is irrevocable. It was prophesied, 2 is irrevocable. Wasn't it? Didn't you go up there
in the movement? Haggai 2, you got it? You got it? Haggai 2, verse 4. That's
why God says, "'Cause you're able to be strong, O Jehovah.'"
Be strong. He says, "'Be strong, O Joshua.'"
Joshua represents the Holy Spirit here. God, the Son, and God,
the Spirit, is the one that did this work of building the church.
Right? God, the King, and then the Spirit. And we'll get down to verse 20
of this chapter. And again, the Word of the Lord
came in the background in the 20th day of the month, saying,
Speak to Zerubbabel, the brother of Judah, saying, I will shake
their hand. Verse 23, look at this, "'In
that day, saith the Lord of hosts, when I take thee, O son of Abednego,
my servant, son of Caelacheus,' saith the Lord, "'I will make
thee a signet, a mark, a seal, for I have chosen thee.'" In
Hebrew, that's what gave the people faith. That God had placed the
king, God had placed all things in the hands of a fifth man,
an eighth of man, made of human good men over there, pitch and
jubilant. The ultimate finish of this thing,
and over in Jekyll, there's another one, Jekyll I, too. Jekyll I,
too. This is one good thought. This,
I lifted up my eyes again and looked, behold, a man with a
merciless mind. Huh? Who is this that has the
lion in the front?" You know, and Ben set out with a gold star. He said unto me, the nation of
Jerusalem, the nation of Jerusalem, see what's the best out there.
And the holy angel that talked with me went forth, and another
angel went out to meet him, and said unto him, the angel said,
God, speak to this young man. Who are you to talk like that? This is a robbery. But more importantly,
it's a crime. Nobody should ever say I was
a robber, you know, but I was not one either. They go to him and say, Jerusalem
shall be inhabited. Verse 5, I say, I say, if the
Lord will be with us all the time, we will go in the midst
of that. Chapter 4, right over there.
Chapter 4, verse 6. Then he answered and spoke unto
me, saying, This is the word of the Lord, and it is your revenue,
not by might, nor by power. But by my Spirit, saith the Lord
of hosts, do not thou, O great mountain, deforge a river-dove.
But now in the hands of your brother-in-law, and lead the
foundation of his house, his hands shall finish it. Verse
10. Who are they? Old man, before
you know it, you're going to put them in a plane, you're going
to fill up that jet steam there with savage pride, race, race,
that group. So that's what I hypothesize.
And how do I hypothesize to the people? And their message is
personal. They said, listen, God put this
thing in my hand and it will fit in my hand. And God said
in the end, this work is going to prosper. And the day came
for it and it worked the way it did. Nothing in the Bible
stops it. This is Mary Magdalene, his birthright. That's what the people said. That's what. Now back to the
issue of prophecy. Back to the picture. And though
the work appeared to have stopped, and like I said, from Malachi
until John, 403 years went by. 403, that's a long time. 400 years. You know, the children
of Israel were in Egypt 40 years, in the wilderness 40 years. They were in Egypt about 400
years. That's it. But they were in the
wilderness 40 years. And both times they fell. Especially
in Egypt they fell. He was brought up in a little
place, and he did it. In the fullness of time, God
sent Moses. Huh? Look here at Ephraim chapter
5. As a matter of fact, it's drawn
400 years from now. Ephraim chapter 5 says that the
prophets prophesied, and Moses, through the building, rose up
to build the house. to build the house. And John,
the last of the prophets, was standing around one day. Remember,
John was standing around one day, the last of the only Christian
prophets, and God had received him and spoken to him. And he'd
say, looking like that, Glory to God, the glory of God,
the glory of the people, the Lord, all the messengers of the
covenant which are sent by the covenant of God. Amen. Amen.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen.
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Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen But once again, it's irrelevant when
the people are killed. Okay? It's irrelevant when it's not good. It's late at night. It's not
good. Before, oppositions were fierce. Now, we've got even stronger.
Are you still with me? You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be
like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be
like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going
to be like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul. You're
not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul.
You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul.
You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be
like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going
to be like Paul. You're not going to be like Paul. You're not going to be And I have this little
girl, I'm going to give her a blessing. It's a good man, I'm going to
give her the Holy Gospel, now I'm going to give her the man of
these sacred spirits. And I look at my spirit. Persecution went on, and at the
same time came this gentleman on the side of the river, and
they're complaining, and here comes the weather, and he starts
crying. And here comes the opposition
again, and look at what happens to them. They came to him and
said, Who has commanded you to do this work? Does that sound familiar? Do you remember
when Christ came? Do you remember the first place
he went to? Do you remember when he came
and went to Jerusalem? The first public appearance in
Jerusalem? He was crucified. And what he did? Thought he was
rid of it. A clean patch. Remember that? And after he did so, you know
what the Pharisee came up and said to him? By whose authority
do you do this? Who gave you authority to do
this? That one. And then the Pharisee said, imagine
that he said, I'll tell you what. I'll ask you a year if you'll
answer me. If you answer a question, I'll put it on you. Well, these
fellas didn't answer any of them. The locals didn't answer any
of them. Look at it. Read on. They said, first of
all, they said, what are the names of the men that make this
building up? Huh? What's the name? First five. That the eye of their God was
upon the elders of Israel, that they could not cause them to
cease. They wouldn't quit working. It is in the Bible that I believe
it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the
Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe
it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it
is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I
believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in
the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe
it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the
Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that
I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I
believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in
the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the Bible that I believe it is. It is in the
in the world, and it's worth both of that and hustling in
their hands. They're hustling in their hands. Yes, that's exactly what the
Lord said in Isaiah, the place of the Lord. Who commanded you to build this
house, to make that deep well? Who asked for a name?" No, sir.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, Do you believe me? Well, look my dear, here's the
testimony of the people. They finally did give their testimony,
and this was in the letter, contained in the letter back to the people.
This is what they said. Verses 13 through verse 11. It says, We are the servants
of the God of heaven. And we built a house that was
built a week, many years ago, which a great king went to a
building to set up. After our fathers provoked the
God of Herbalism and the wrath, he drove them into the hands
of medical nurses and threw the people away, those 13. In the
first year of Cyrus, the king of Babylon, the same king, great
king Cyrus, made a decree to build this house. And the brethren
were also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar
took out of the temple, and brought them into the temple of Babylon.
Gold did Cyrus the King take out of the temple of Babylon.
He took them out, first of all, and they were delivered unto
one whose name was Seth-Bakari, whom he made brethren, and said
unto him, Take these brethren, and carry them into the temple
of Jerusalem. Let the house of God be built
in his place. Then came the slain sister and
laid the foundation of the house of God which is his. And since
that time, even until now, he's been a pillar of his church.
That's our history. And that's our history. I, God, before time began, chose
a people. He decreed salvation and elected
a people, and chose our Lord, chose our Savior, made Him captain,
made Him governor, Jesus Christ in His name, and He delivered
these vessels unto Him. This is a mercy. Ordained by
God to the person of Christ, delivered him in a covenant saying,
go, save my people. Carry him all the way. Carry
him all the way. Establish righteousness. Satisfy
justice. Pay their sin debt. Carry him
on your shoulders. Bring him home. Build him a church.
But that's what he did, just the same way. He laid the foundation. If no one made the money, then
that was his money. And until that day, it did not
occur to him that he would still do the work. Now, in verse 17, This is what
you would like to do. Now, verse 17, they said, if
it seemed good to the king, let there be a search made in the
king's treasure house, whether it's true or not. You just make
a search and see if it's true or not. It's written down. You just look and see if this
isn't what it says. So that King Darius in chapter
6, that's what he wrote. He brought him the book. He found
the book, that's right. Darius the King made the pray
and searched his name in the house of the Lord for the treasure.