When we spend time examining
the birth of Jesus Christ, we are examining the incarnation. God come in the flesh. Can you grasp that? God would
come in the flesh. God would come incarnate. That he would visit us in that
manner. for the sole purpose of laying
down his life a ransom for many. As we read there, the word became
flesh and dwelt among us. That generation of people at
that time, so many of them missed so much because they could not
see Jesus in Jesus. There were a few that saw Him
and understood, even as we hear the Apostle Peter confessing,
Thou art the Christ. That word in the Old Testament
is translated Messiah. Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. I like what Thomas had to say
too. So often he is run down. You
know, the Lord never ran down any of His children. Never. He never spoke ill of
them. People do, but he doesn't. I have loved them with an everlasting
love. I care for them from eternity.
They are mine. The father gave them me and we
are one and they are thine and mine and mine and thine. So he
never runs them down. But Thomas has taken a beating
over the years, but his confession so many people cannot make. My
Lord and my God. He made the Lord and made the
God of heaven mine. You know who does that for us?
He that gives himself a ransom for us. That's where we get the
my in that. We find that in the scriptures
he is declared, he is the eternal God. Now I have difficulty wrapping
myself around eternity, but we do the best we can. He is the
Eternal Son of God. He is the Eternal Lamb of God. He is the Eternal Prophet of
God. He is the Eternal Priest of God. He is the Eternal King of God. He is the Eternal Apostle and
High Priest of our profession. There's not a time when He began
to do any of these things. Now we know as He came, God come
in the flesh, He was not changed when His eternality was not changed
when He assumed flesh. He was always the same, God Almighty. He's the eternal redemption of
God. He's the eternal wisdom of God. He is the eternal righteousness
of God. He is the eternal justification
of God. He is the eternal redeemer of
God. And the list could go on and
on as we study the scriptures. He is the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This day, I would like to spend
just a few minutes on a passage of scripture that is prophetic
about this one's coming. Prophetic about what the Old
Testament had to say. Now, it's many places in the
Old Testament, it shares with us that there was one coming.
So the title of our message this morning is someone is coming.
The Old Testament prophets, they were not predicting. They were
prophesying. They were declaring that someone
is coming. We heard read there in the book
of Genesis this morning, chapter three, someone's coming to take
care of the problem that came as a result of Adam's fall in
the Garden of Eden. Someone's coming. There's gonna
be someone take care of the problem. every prophet from that time
on prophesied concerning the coming of Jesus Christ. Now,
I didn't realize when I thought about going and doing this this
time of year that we were going to go right back to the book
of Numbers to do this. So would you join me in the book
of Numbers chapter 24? In the book of Numbers chapter
24, we were there some time ago and we read this passage of scripture,
but we didn't say a lot about it. We would like to say more
about it today. Balaam was a false prophet. Balaam was and is called in the
scriptures, is called a soothsayer. He is going to admit in this
passage of scripture that he didn't know the first thing about
the God he was speaking about. He reminds me so much of Judas. I'm convinced that Judas had
a lot to say, but he didn't have any understanding about it. He
went and mimicked what the others were saying. He just spoke with
his mouth, but his heart was not in it because Judas from
the very beginning had been chosen to be the one that would betray
the Lord Jesus Christ. And God, Jesus Christ never had
him enter into that really very loyal fold that he had. He was always identified in Jesus's
mind as a traitor, as a beguiler, as a liar, and as one that would
identify him as the Lord Jesus Christ. So turn with me, if you
would, to the book of Numbers this morning, the book of Numbers
chapter 24. This is the final statement by
this false prophet, Balaam, who has been paid as a soothsayer
to speak ill against Israel. He has been paid by another false
prophet, a false king. And here we have in these words,
in the book of Numbers chapter 24, Numbers chapter 24, we have
Balaam and his final statement, his final parable
as it's recorded. Chapter 24, beginning with verse
15. And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor
hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said, he hath
said, which heard the words of the Lord, and knew the knowledge
of the Most High, and saw the vision of the Almighty fallen
into a trance, but having his eyes open. I shall see him, but
not now. I shall behold him, but not near."
He's going to see him, but he won't be near. Now the apostle,
excuse me, Job had that to say, for I know that my Redeemer liveth. There was a knowledge by Job. Job had the same faith that's
given to every other believer. Every believer that has ever
been on this earth could say with conviction, I know my Redeemer
liveth. And he's going to come back.
And to Job, he hadn't even been here the first time, but he's
going to come back and he's going to raise me from the dead. I'm
going to have breakfast with a young man this coming week,
and I'm going to talk about the resurrection. And I'm going to
ask him if I go out, and you and I go out to the cemetery,
and we stand over a grave of one of our loved ones, and we
just say, Grandma, if you're willing, you can come out of
that tomb. What would happen? Nothing. Now when the Lord calls, that's
going to be different, but our call is not effectual. So here
he says he's not close, but he goes on to say this and how and
what a prophetic statement he makes. God moved his mouth. God moved his lips and you know
what? Moses wrote it down. Balaam didn't
write it down. He's not a holy man of God to
speak as he was moved but he spoke these words and Moses wrote
them down as the Holy Spirit gave him utterance and the words
that Balaam spoke, I shall see him but not now, I shall behold
him but not near, Or nine, there shall come a star out of Jacob
and a scepter shall rise out of Israel and shall smite the
corners of Moab and destroy all the children of Sheth. And Edom shall be a possession.
Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies and Israel shall
do valiantly. Verse 19, out of Jacob shall
come he that shall have dominion and shall destroy him that remaineth
of the city. We'd like to look at those three
things that Balaam mentioned here as he is being paid to speak
evil of Israel and he can't get his mouth to speak it. God did
not permit him to curse Israel. In fact, the opposite, he was
called on to bless Israel. All right, these things that
we find here in Numbers chapter 24, verses 17 and verse 19, there
shall come a star out of Jacob, a scepter shall rise out of Israel. And in verse 19, out of Jacob
shall he come who shall have dominion. Someone's coming. And this someone that is coming,
even Balaam prophesied about it. This someone that is coming
is going to do extraordinary things. He is going to be able
to do extraordinary things because he's extraordinary. He's God
Almighty. He's the one that God has promised
to take care of the problem. There shall be a star and a scepter
and someone is going to have dominion. These two verses reveal
much about the coming Messiah, the promised one. The promised
one, the seed of the woman, however we look at it in the scriptures,
we have someone identified here. God Almighty has identified him
as someone that is going to be able to do great things, exceeding
things. greater than our expectations.
He is going to be able to subdue all our enemies. Every one of
those people that he mentions there in that passage of scripture
are the enemies of the church. They represent that. They're
enemies of God, idolatrous people. And this one is going to come
and put it all aside. There shall come a star out of
Jacob. Would you turn with me to the
book of Revelation on that verse of scripture, that thought? We
are reminded of some thoughts over here in the book of Revelation
chapter 22, when we think about a star, particularly when we
think about this star. Now a star was used for the wise
men led to see where the new king was born. God brought a
star, something that they observed and brought them out of the east.
Someone mentioned not long ago, probably these people had heard
their, Their ancestors had heard the word of God through someone
like Daniel, because they came from the same place. They had
some information that a king of Israel had been born, and
they were brought there, and they brought the gifts of gold,
frankincense, and myrrh. They came. A star led them. Well, here in the book of Revelation,
chapter 22 and verse 16, we read these words about a star. I,
Jesus, have sent my angel to testify unto you these things
in the churches. I am the root. and the offspring
of David. Now that's interesting. Have
you ever thought about being the root and also the offspring?
I am the one that brought David's family into the world and I'm
the offspring of David's family. I am David's Lord and David's
son. I am that I am is what we regard
about the Lord Jesus. He goes on to say, I am the root
and the offspring of David. Now notice this last part. and the bright and morning star. For its brightness, you know,
the brightness of the star began in the very beginning of time
and has shown all the way through the scriptures. We find that
there's not been a time that God did not have an interest
in taking care of the problem that would develop in the Garden
of Eden. He had promised that he would take care of all his
children that had fallen in Adam. All that the Father giveth me
shall come unto me, and he that cometh unto me I will in no wise
cast out. All their names were written
down in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the
world. I have promised to take care of them, and this bright
and shining morning star has been in every generation from
the very beginning of humanity to this day that stars still
continues to shine in its glory, and that glory is the glory of
God found in Jesus Christ. I am the bright and morning star. Back up just a little bit there
into the book of 2 Peter, if you would. 2 Peter, as we think
about that star, there'll be a star arise. Oh, as the prophecy
goes out, as even this liar, this This outrageous guy hired
to curse Israel is forced by God Almighty to speak well of
one that will come, this star, a star out of Jacob. Not gonna
come out of any other tribe, gonna come out of Jacob. Here
in the book of 2 Peter, Chapter 1 verse 19, we read these words,
we have also a more sure word of prophecy. We're unto ye do
well that take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place
until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. What does God do as the star
out of Jacob brings that light of the glorious gospel, brings
in regeneration in the heart, creates a new heart within us?
All of this activity was promised and even Balaam would mention
it. There's going to be a star, a rise out of Jacob. What we
have a star in the sense of a blazing a star, a shining, and you know
sometimes a star is figuratively used as a prince. We have in
this star the prince of peace. We heard about that this morning.
As we look into the scriptures we find that the line of the
Messiah has been identified for a very long time. Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, The names that would be known by our numerous of being
the star. An old translation, put it this
way. This is old translation. This is before Christ was even
born, this translation was out. While a king shall arise from
the house of Jacob and Messiah be anointed from the house of
Israel. People had an understanding of
who this is. You know, the second thing that
we found in that passage of scripture there in the book of Numbers
chapter 24? A scepter will rise out of Israel. You know, a scepter
is a mark of authority. Kings use a scepter. I think of that scepter that
Ahasuerus had. And his wife, came fearfully
and humbly into his presence, hoping that scepter would drop
in favor of her. She'd already been warned, if
he doesn't want you, you'll be taken out and killed. a scepter
of power, authority. And yet we find here in the book
of Numbers, chapter 24, that there shall rise a scepter, shall
rise out of Israel one who has power and authority. Turn with
me to the book of the Psalms, if you would. Psalm 45, verses
6 and 7. Psalm 45, verses 6 and 7, we
read here about the scepter, this authority of God, the authority
of the Messiah, the authority of the one come in the flesh,
that he is all-powerful, all-knowing. It doesn't take very long in
the ministry of the Lord Jesus for us to understand he could
read everybody's heart that was there. It doesn't take us very
long to find out he knew their motives. When they ask a stupid
question, he already knew it was a stupid question. They were
making an attempt to catch God in a trap. And they couldn't. Many of them went away frustrated
because he answered their question not the way he wanted, that they
wanted it answered. And many of them went away mad.
Did you know he spoke of us? And here we read in Psalm 45,
Psalm 45, and there in verses six and seven, the scriptures
share this. Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter
of thy kingdom is a right scepter. That's one thing, as we bring
this out, as we look at this from the book of Numbers, that
this prophet, even though he was a false prophet, his mouth
is being used by Almighty God, just like we find he used a dumb
ass to speak the glory of God. Here we have this mouth being
moved by God to declare that there shall be a scepter shall
rise out of Israel and this scepter is a person and this scepter
is the kingdom and it is a right scepter and he goes on. Thou
lovest righteousness and hateth wickedness. Therefore God thy
God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. Now there are many people been
anointed. But only one is the anointed one, the Messiah. That's what that word means.
That's what Christ means, anointed. What does that mean? Set aside
an eternity past to be the redeemer of the people. This is the one
in the covenant of grace that was set aside by himself and
by the other two members of the Godhead to be the redeemer of
his people. He didn't shy from it. He accepted
it and was glad. For the joy that was set before
him endured the cross. In eternity past, it was joyful
what he was determined to do. Yes, he would witness the fall. Yes, he would go down and talk
to Adam and Eve in the trees there in the garden. Yes, he
would cover them. And this would be symbolic of
what would take place 4,000 years later at Calvary, a covering. that he had been covering his
people with all through the ages, his robe of righteousness. The
veracity of those words would be evident when Jesus Christ
went to the cross and purchased his people. Oh, this scepter,
this righteous scepter. He loves righteousness and hated
wickedness. Therefore, God, thy God, hath
anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. He
is the true Messiah. In Hebrews chapter one, would
you turn with me to the book of Hebrews as we follow this,
the scepter, a scepter shall rise out of Israel, a man of
authority, a man that when he speaks, it will be carried out,
a man when he's determined to save a people. I was asked the
other day, do you think that anybody that's ever been saved
could actually just walk away from God and never be there again?
And I says, not on your life. The promise of God is, I will
lose none. We get lost, but he never loses
us. We stumble and fall, but he never
loses us. I like to think of it there in
the book of Ezekiel, I think it is that hook in our jaw. I'm
not letting you go. You're mine. I purchased you.
I'm not wasting my blood. Well, here in the book of Hebrews
chapter Hebrews chapter 1, I'll get there. Hebrews chapter 1,
verse 8. It says, but unto the son he saith, thy
throne, O God. Now this is God speaking of the
son and saying, O God. God has called his son God. for a maternity, and you know
what? The church will call the son
God all their born-again life, and not one will deny that he
is God. When we deny that Jesus Christ
is God, we are identifying ourselves as not knowing God. That's all
there is to it. Thy son, but unto the Son, he
saith, thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever. A scepter
of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom. This one with
authority has a scepter of the right. He has the scepter of
righteousness. He has a scepter to impute righteousness. He has a scepter that is glorious.
Turn with me, if you would, back to the book of Isaiah again,
if you would. In Isaiah chapter 32, as we think
about a scepter rising, oh, a star coming out of Jacob. A star of
brightness. glorious, a star above all stars,
a heavenly star, one that came from the very presence of God,
even as the Lord Jesus cried in his great high priestly prayer,
restore unto the me the glory that I had with thee before the
world was. How is that going to happen?
His death. How is that going to happen?
His burial. How is that going to happen?
His resurrection. Restoration. Restored, back to
fellowship. Here in the book of Isaiah chapter
32, we read these words about the glories of this one. Isaiah
chapter 32 and verse 1, the scriptures share this. Isaiah 32 verse 1,
it says, behold, a king shall reign in righteousness and princes
shall rule in judgment and a man shall be as a hiding place from
the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in
a dry place, as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land. He shall
reign in righteousness." This, again, is a declaration from
the prophet Isaiah about the coming one. This is who he is. And he shall be, this man shall
be as a hiding place from the wind. We appreciate that here,
don't we? A place out of the wind sometimes
is so wonderful. And here we find that it is rivers
of water in a dry place. What changes God makes in us. He gives himself as a covert
from the storm, from the wind. He gives himself as a place that
is watered, that once was so dry. And then he says, as a shadow
of a great rock in a weary land. I read sometime how much difference
in temperature in the shade there is from out in the sunshine.
And you don't think it's so much, but it is. And what a difference
there is in the shadow of the Almighty over the heat of this
natural world. God is so gracious to us. He
and a man, this is the God-man that shall come. Jeremiah 23,
look with me in Jeremiah chapter 23. Nook's book over there. In
chapter 23, as we think about this scepter arising out of Israel,
God's purpose that people would know. You know, when God's people
read this hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago, they
said, oh my, that's talking about my Savior. That's talking about
what He will do. That's talking about being free
from where I am, being free. In Jeremiah chapter 23 and verse
5, we read these words. It says here, Behold, the days
come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous
branch, and a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth. One more time, the prophets of
old spoke of the Lord Jesus Christ. I will raise unto David a righteous
branch. And then as we look out, we find
there in the book of Numbers chapter 24 and verse 19, Someone's
coming that has dominion. Has dominion. I was told one
time that Satan has dominion over the world. Not true. There's a king that
has dominion over this world. And that rascal is in dominion
of the king. This king has dominion over all
things. He had dominion over nothing
and created everything. You know, before the world was
created and all the heavens and the earth, there wasn't even
an atom. There was an absolute nothingness, except for God. And out of nothingness, he had
dominion to create the heavens and the earth. And out of nothingness,
he created the first man. Dirt of the ground, of the soil,
probably a red earth that we see sometimes. That's what his
name, Adam's name meant, red. Dirt. He's made out of dirt. You know, just as it is so possible
for God to create a man out of the dust of this earth, it is
so possible for that same God to create a child in a womb that
had never had a man. There's nothing hard about that
if you can see God. Now, I don't understand it, but
I just see that it's absolutely true. God created a body. Because he said, a body thou
hast prepared me. God created a body in a womb
that never knew a man. The Virgin Mary. All right. Out
of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, shall have rule,
shall be dominant. He shall rule over all things. He shall have dominion over all
things. Nothing shall go without his
dominion over it. No wonder he can say all things
are purposed and planned after the counsel of his own will.
Why? Because I have dominion over all things. My dominion
is an everlasting dominion, and it is from east to west and north
to south, over everything near and far and left and right, everything. He has dominion over it. Turn
with me, if you would, to the book of Jude. I don't think I'm gonna get in
trouble, because this will be a while before Mike gets there,
because I want verse 25. Verse 25 of the Book of Jude. Notice this with me. 25 of the Book of Jude. To the
only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and
power both now and ever. Amen. What's it say? Dominion and power. He has dominion to hold all things
together. That's what we read in the book
of Colossians. He can hold all things together. By him, all
things consist. Nothing was made, it tells us
in the book of John, nothing was made that was made without
him making it. He is the maker of all things,
the creator of all things. He has dominion over all things.
He has dominion over everything. There is nothing that does not
fall under his dominion. David said, though I make my
bed in hell, thou art there. Wherever we go, he is there.
You know, I have people say, you know, my son, my daughter,
they were saved, but now they're just away from God. And I'd like
to ask where that is. Because God is everywhere. He
knows. He knows where they are. The
dominion of God is a wise dominion. It's a righteous dominion. It's
a dominion that only does good. What does it say in the book
of Romans chapter 8 and verse 28? And we know that all things
work together for the good of them that love God to those who
are the called according to his purpose. Now, outside of that
group, it may look bad, but to that group, it is all things
work together for the good of them that love God to those who
are the called according to his purpose. Because he has dominion
over all things. He rules over all things. Nothing is outside of his rule.
Every asteroid. I didn't realize until a science
teacher told me one time, when you're cleaning your gutter,
there's some dirt down in the bottom of the gutter. But that's
really stuff that's come out of the solar system, drifted
down here. I didn't know that. But you know
what? Every one of those particles,
God has dominion. Every asteroid, every thing. Oh, the fear mongers, we're gonna
get smacked with a asteroid. So, he has dominion over that asteroid.
If that's what he wants to do with this earth, so be it. All right. Revelation chapter one and verse
16. You know, when we think about
this, we find out, well, if he has dominion over all things,
what about salvation? Absolutely. He has dominion over everything
about salvation. every thought of salvation, every
word of salvation. He has dominion over everybody
that he saves. He has dominion over the hearts
and minds of everybody he saves. Travel down the road to Damascus
with Saul of Tarsus for a moment, and you'll find out that God
had dominion over Saul of Tarsus. And the moment he appeared unto
him, Saul never was the same. He left religion behind and claimed
Christ, that I may win Christ. I press towards the mark of the
high calling in Christ Jesus. That's where he headed. All right.
Book of Revelation chapter 1, verse 16, it says, he had in
his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth went a sharp
two-edged sword. And his countenance was as the
sun shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at
his feet. And he laid his right hand upon
me, saying, fear not, I am the first and the last. I am he that
liveth and was dead. And behold, I am alive evermore.
Amen. And have the keys. I have dominion
over the keys of hell and death. Now I have dominion over you
now, John. Write these things which thou
hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall
be hereafter. And then he tells us the mystery
of the seven stars which thou sawest in thy right hand, the
seven golden candlesticks, the seven stars are the messengers,
the angels of the seven churches, and the seven candlesticks are
the seven churches. This I have dominion over. I
have dominion over all things. And as we read over there, the
dominion is very necessary. His dominion is very necessary
in our salvation. He must have dominion over us
in order to cause us to bow. Without dominion, we will not
bow. If we don't see him as the king, We will not bow. He will cause us to bow. He has
dominion over all things. The salvation of dead sinners
is a great feat of grace. Yet he has all the dominion over
it. They're the results of that glorious
star of Jacob and the glorious scepter out of Israel. And him
who has dominion is the defeat of all enemies. Read down through
there. He just talks about Moab, check. Other tribes, check. Who's left? Israel. All of them he's going to defeat. Well, turn with me, if you would,
to the book of Hebrews, chapter nine. In Hebrews, chapter nine,
we read this wonderful passage of scripture about our Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ, and his great accomplishments over all
the enemies of the church over the enemies of God, which truly
are the enemies of the church. He is going to win over sin. He's gonna put sin as far as
the east is from the west. He's gonna pay every jot and
tittle of sin for his people. He will win, he will win. In
some miraculous way, he was able to have dominion over sin and
call every sin that is against his people from time immemorial
to this present day and the future as long as it lasts, he's able
to call every sin by his power and dominion and place it on
himself on the cross. He imputed every sin of all of
his people. Not one of them said, I'm staying
here under this rock and I'll hide and he'll never find me.
And then I'll accuse every sin He had dominion over and His
power and great glory brought them at one place, at one day,
on the cross when they were imputed to Him and he paid everything
in payment for our sin. Here in the book of Hebrews chapter
9 and verse 24 it says, for Christ is not entered into the holy
places made with hands. Now Christ is the Messiah. Christ
is the star. Christ is the dominion. Christ
is the scepter. For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, speaking about the tabernacle
or the temple, which are figures of the true, but into heaven
itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us or on
our behalf. Nor yet that he should offer
himself often as the high priest entered into the holy place every
year with blood of others, for then must he often have suffered
since the foundation of the world, but because he has all dominion,
because he is the star, because he is the scepter, because he
is the one anointed before the foundation of the world, but
now once in the end of the world hath he appeared in all his glory
as a man to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. He put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself. What great dominion, and what
he did against our enemy, sin. Against our enemy, death. Death
hath no more dominion over you, we read in the book of Romans.
Sin hath no more dominion over me, over you, we read in the
book of Romans. Christ has dominion over all
things, and he has the church as his dominion. It is as it
is appointed in a man's wants to die, but after this the judgment.
So Christ has once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto
them that look for him shall he appear the second time without
sin unto salvation. No charge held against the church. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies. You
know, there are many examples in the Old Testament of God defeating
all the enemies. One of them is there, or several
are there in the book of Numbers, chapter 24. A list there. As we follow Israel, we're gonna
find out that they're gonna go against Midian, and what? When?
They're gonna go against Jericho. Guess what? When? And the only
record I have in the scriptures of losing any soldiers was at
Ai. The other times, we're going
to take 100,000 men into battle, and 100,000 men will come home.
I was sharing with Mike this morning, at Jericho, they came
home with more than they went with. They had Rahab the harlot
and her family. They were all Israel. Now turn
with me, if you would, in conclusion to the book of 2 Samuel, chapter
23. This is such a wonderful verse
of scripture. Now, in this 2 Samuel, chapter
23, we also have David's last words. That's what's mentioned
in the very beginning. But we go on and we find, excuse me,
in 2 Samuel, chapter 23, that David, there's listed here his
mighty men. He had a mighty trio, and then
he had another mighty trio, and this one was more mighty than
that one. Oh, it just goes down through there, and you say, my
gosh, those guys did some really phenomenal things. But the conclusion
of the whole matter is found in this reading we want to do,
2 Samuel chapter 23, and verses 8 through 39, it's the mighty
men, you could read that, but I'm gonna look at verses 11,
Chapter 23, verses 11 and 12. It talks about one man, but it
sums up how God takes care of every enemy. He wins every battle. There's not one he goes into
battle with that he doesn't come out victor. And I'm thankful
that he has the ability of overcoming us, or we'd not be overcome. We'd not submit. We have to have
someone who has all dominion. We have to have someone who is
the great star, has the mighty scepter, that will win the battle
over our very will, which is against God. It's enmity with
God. It's at warfare. We have no interest
in that at all. We'll have all the interest in
religion, but we will not have any interest in Christ until
he gives us a heart to love him. and then we will love him. All
right, here. And after him was Shammah, the
son of Agi, the Herorite. And the Philistines were gathered
together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of
lentils. Who would fight over a field
of lentils? Anyway, it's a field of lentils,
beans. And the people fled from the Philistines. Now that's how
much interest we have in defeating our own enemies. They're there,
we're just gonna flee. But he stood in the midst of
the ground and defended it and slew the Philistines. And before
you go home and get too big about it, and the Lord brought a great
victory. That's what the Lord does. He
wroughts a great victory. That's this one who is the star
of Jacob, who is the scepter out of Israel, and who has all
dominion over all things. He is the savior that God's people
worship. He is the one who came and won. He says he stood his ground and defended it and slew the
enemy. We thank God for that. Lord willing,
next time we'll look at a passage that will say, someone's here. The incarnation of Jesus Christ. He came in the flesh for the
suffering of death.