"Lessons from Men in the Bible" By Brother Parrish Lee June 7th,
2015
Anybody loving God this
morning? Anybody know, know for a fact,
beyond a shadow of a doubt, that He is a mighty, good God? Anybody can say, “You know, things might
happen, but God has been doing things in my life?” Anybody can feel the cleansing power of the
Lord whenever you turn to Him, and you know that this great God that we’ve
talked about for thousands of years is so real and true in your life
today? It is really—sometimes you really
get excited and everything, and I’ve just got to say this, you get excited,
because we serve a God who goes beyond the scriptures so many times. And yet, you come into His presence and, oh
Lord, it’s just, it’s better than yellow cake with chocolate frosting. It’s better than ice cream. It’s better than the sun shining on a clear
day, 72°, with no precipitation. It’s
better than everything; it’s better than your team winning the Superbowl. It is better than anything I can think of in
this pulpit right now. The goodness, and
the awesomeness, and the beauty of the holiness of our wonderful Lord and
Savior. Giving honor to that same God who
is so rich in mercy and full of grace, who is so wonderful to us on an
everlasting scale. Giving honor to Him
who is giving and loving; who is quick to hear, and quick to correct, and quick
to be in our lives—giving honor to Him.
Giving honor to all those who have gone on before us: Our founding pastor, he and his family, our
pastor, he and his family, and those who have come in and stood in the gap to
make up the hedge. Giving honor to them,
and giving honor to all of y’all, who gather together and present yourselves
before that merciful, and omnipotent, and omniscient, that wonderful God, and
say, “Lord, feed me this day.” What a wonderful time of praise
and worship today. Last month, we had lessons from
women in the Bible, and we pray that that was really nutritious for us, that we
could always learn lessons from women who have gone on in faith, and some, not
so much in the faith. They’re
both—they’re lessons of good, and lessons of bad, that we could benefit
thereby. This month, of course—I did
neglect to do something last month. We
talked about who can find that virtuous woman; we talked about, in the Book of
Revelation, how God made a virtuous woman, and it’s called the Bride of
Christ. Amazing, amazing, amazing
prophecy fulfilled. Well, this month, we
are going to be talking about lessons from men in the Bible. Our verse for the month is: 2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto all good works. So, we pray that this
month—everything that’s going on—we may be able to benefit, learn, and grow
spiritually from the lessons of some of the men who we’ll be talking about from
their lessons from the Bible. Exodus 24:13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua:
and Moses went up into the mount of God. If we could bow our heads, just
for a moment. Lord, we come before You,
and we thank You. We thank You for
everything. We thank You for waking us
up this morning, and setting us on our way, because there are those who did not
wake up today. We thank you for putting
our feet on the floor, because some were not able to put their feet on the
floor and walk across it. We thank You
for food on our table, and a roof over our head, for there are some who, even
now, are saying, “I don’t know where it’s going to come from.” God, we thank You for Your good and perfect
gifts. We thank You for brothers and
sisters who love You in the Lord, God.
Lord, we thank You for our praise and worship time, because, You said in
Your word that You would inhabit the praises of Your people. And, Lord, we thank You for now; we thank You
for now, that we can worship You without fear of someone coming in, disrupting
the worship of You; without a threat on our lives, without—to be able to
understand Your Word as we go over it, and we pray, God, we pray, as Your
Scripture says, that Your Word would accomplish that to which You have sent it
and not return unto You void. God, we
submit and claim all this in Jesus’ name, and everyone said, amen. Amen. So, this month is—I’m kind of
excited about this—this month is the month that we learn from men in the
Bible. Christian men; men that loved
God, and maybe some that didn’t love God so much. I’m excited.
Anybody get excited and go over things in God’s Word and it comes alive
to you? You can see it, and it opens up,
and, “Wow! I can even see it! I can see it happen, and, wow, that direct relates
to some things that I am going through myself.
Well, the title of the message today is, simply, lessons from men in the
Bible Part I. Part 1: Process for Promotion As we read form the Book of Exodus
chapter twenty-four, verse thirteen, “And Moses rose up, and his minister
Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.” Now, Moses we know: the man of God, the intercessor, the one who
led them out of Egypt, split open the Red Sea, through the unction of God, of
course. He took them over into this
other land where they were delivered.
Moses, this great guy. Moses,
this guy, he had a helper or more accurately, the Bible says, a minister. He had somebody that ministered to him. Now that shouldn’t be foreign. That shouldn’t be foreign, because, nowadays,
when somebody’s really doing something, people tend to come along beside
them. But the Bible says that Joshua was
his minister. Hundreds of thousands of
people in this nation, there were priests, there were Levites, there were the
twelve tribes! There were people who had
unctions, and there were teachers, but there was one—one!—who ministered to
Moses. There was one who made it his
business to see that the things of Moses were attended to. Out of the whole land; out of the whole land.
Now, when it says minister here—nowadays
when somebody says minister, you tend to think of one those people with those
collars, you know, that have the little white piece in the middle, and they have
the black clothes, and they speak a certain way—but when it says ‘minister’
here actually means contributor, because minister actually means helper. So, here it means contributor, one who
contributed to him, or actually, one who worshipped him. Or even one who was a direct servant. So, we see that Joshua served
Moses. Joshua served Moses; how that
must've been. Long before we had fancy
windows, electricity, automobiles; long before they had electricity and
refrigerators and nice stoves, where the gas comes up and burns; long before
all of that, there was this time when the needs of somebody who wanted to carry
the people through—he would have many needs, and one person would take it upon
himself to make sure that the needs of the man of God were met. He would take upon himself to do that. And, because he took it upon himself to do
that, there came things before him. Now,
Moses would just say, “Hey, Joshua, we’ve got to go ahead and fight these
people, and wipe those people out.” And
Joshua would say, “Okay, boss,” and he would gather the people together, and
they would go out to war. “Joshua, we
need to spy out the land.” “Okay,
boss. We will get a person from every
tribe, and we will go spy out the land.”
“Joshua, you know what we need to do this time? I need to go up and get the Ten Commandments
from the Lord; I need to have a conversation with Him. I need to climb this mountain.” “Okay, boss, I’m going with you as far as I
can go as far as you will let me, because I know there’s some places in you and
God that you and God only will be.” So,
we see that Joshua attended to the needs of Moses. Now, there was many in that land—this is a
real point—there’s many in that land, but one person took it as a burden to
minister to Moses. And, there’s
something real specific that happens because of this. Because he humbled himself, and served Moses,
and all the auspices of it, God would speak of Joshua later. Now, when he first started off, Joshua didn’t
know that it was going to be him who was going to receive the mantle, and,
frankly, Joshua didn’t care. He just
knew that Moses was the man of God, and, “That’s where I belong. I can’t worry about everybody else. I can’t worry about what everybody else is
doing. I can’t worry about what
everybody else is into. I can’t worry
about excuses. I can’t worry about if
they’re strong or if they’re weak. I
can’t worry about all that. I can’t
worry about if they’re tall or small, rich or poor. I can’t worry about all that. What I need to worry about, really, is to
make sure that that man of God succeeds.”
And, because of this, because of this: Numbers 27:18-20 And the LORD said unto
Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay
thine hand upon him; And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the
congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. And thou shalt put some of
thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may
be obedient. So, this thing started off, it
started off shortly after they came across the Red Sea, there was this minister
to Moses. And, because of their
disbelief, because of them making excuses when God told them to go out and do
it, because of all that, they didn’t go directly into the Promised Land;
because of that. Because of that, they
had to wander in the wilderness for forty years. Forty years of wandering—important
point—forty years! Forty years they
wandered in the wilderness with no place to call home. They didn’t reach their place of
promise. Forty years. And that whole forty year period, Joshua
ministered to Moses. What would it be
like to be a voluntary servant to somebody for forty years? “I voluntarily give my heart, for forty years,
to see that you, the man of God, succeed.
Yes, thirty-nine years and counting.
We’re not ending this thing.
Thirty-nine years and we’re going strong.” Forty years, and, after forty years, because
of his humility, because of his faithfulness, we see that there was
opportunity, and Joshua became the person to take them into the Promised
Land. Because that honor that as upon
Moses, God said, “Give it to that one who faithfully followed you without
excuse, without wavering for forty years.”
So Joshua showed us that there is a process for promotion. A process for promotion. We want to talk about somebody
else here. Another person. We did one example, we’re going to do another
example. 2 Samuel 15:1-7 And it
came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and
fifty men to run before him. And Absalom
rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when
any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom
called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is
of one of the tribes of Israel. And
Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man
deputed of the king to hear thee.
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every
man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him
justice! And it was so, that when any
man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him,
and kissed him. And on this manner did
Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the
hearts of the men of Israel. And it came
to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I pray thee, let me
go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the LORD, in Hebron. To give a little background on this
story, it says in verse one, “And it came to pass after this…”—after this—“…that
Absalom prepared him chariots and horses, and fifty men to run before him." Absalom prepared fifty men before him. So, we see that David—well, we don’t see it
here, but David was a man who was anointed king, if we get a little
background. David being anointed king we
know was small there at first. He wasn’t
even called up for the prophet to see, and yet, he was the one that God had
chosen. We also see that things didn’t
start off with a whiz-bang for David, that he was considered, you know, the
ruddy one. Then we see that David, of
course, went on to take care of Goliath; his big triumph. Taking care of Goliath, and that set a path
of things, and we see that even the one who was the king didn’t like him, so
the king tried to kill him. So, we see
through that whole process, David became king.
So David became king, and wars came by the eaches, and he took care of
them, but this part of the story takes place long after that. After he had to fight Goliath; after he had
to fight war with the people of other lands.
After he had tried to fix things in Israel. This takes place after all of that. And David was a king, yes, God had called him,
but he was king that people liked, they loved David. And David also was a man who made
mistakes. One of the terrible mistakes,
terrible mistakes that David had made was that he had committed adultery. A real famous story, whenever I find myself
taking about David with anybody—especially outside of the church—they quickly
bring up, “David and Bathsheba.” Of all
the stories they remember, “David and Bathsheba.” Yeah.
Well, I have something to say about that, but not in this sermon. So, anyway, he committed a terrible mistake by
committing adultery, and then had the man killed, who was he husband of
Bathsheba. But, God judged him on that;
God answered him according to that folly. And then, well—that is not the purpose of this
message. God judged him on that, and David
had several kids, several sons, one of whom was Absalom. Absalom was the son of David. Now Absalom, Absalom was kind of
special. I’m not going to ask anybody to
raise their hands, but, sometimes when fathers and mothers have kids, they love
all their kids the same—they’ll always tell you that, but the kids will say,
“Oh, no, no. Mom and dad love you more
than they love me.” So, they feel like
there’s one special kid, maybe two special kids, or maybe one kid that’s NOT a
special kid. Maybe they don’t play
sports or whatever. But, Absalom was
very fair. In fact, the Bible says that
from the sole of his foot, to the top of his crown, he didn’t have a
blemish. In fact, it says that Absalom
was so fair, he was more beautiful than anybody—anybody!—anybody in all of
Israel. It didn’t just say the most
beautiful man, it said the most beautiful in all Israel. He didn’t have a blemish on him. It even says that he would weigh his
hair. Once a year, go into the city and
weigh his hair. Yeah. Now, this son of David who was beautiful and
gorgeous. He was raised and educated in
the king’s place, so he would've known how to talk, and how to walk. And he was raised around King David, so he
would have known about war and strategy. And, David was a king; so he would have known
how to rule and govern and be over people.
This guy as beautiful and gorgeous and knew how to rule and govern
people, and knew about strategy, this guy was this same Absalom, who sat
outside the gate. Now, the gate is where
the people would come, if they were going to go to the Temple, if they were
going to the palace, if they were going to get their matters taken care
of. This gorgeous, well-talking, knowing
how to walk man, this man who was educated and knew how to work people—let’s
just say it like that—work people. This
man would stand outside the gate, and, as some people would come, to have their
matters tended to, this man would say, “Oh, I can help you out. I’ll give you a hug; I’ll give you a
kiss. Ohh, if I were the judge, if I
were the one leading you, let me tell you what I would do. I would help you out, man. I would make sure all your matters were
tended to.” And this is what Absalom did
for forty years. For forty years, he
minded the gate, and he would, the Bible says, steal the hearts of the
people. Steal them away from what? Steal their hearts away from what? If they were going to the Temple, he would
steal them away from that. If they were
going to the palace, he would steal them away from that. He was the special one—forty years of
that. We’re not ignorant of this
nowadays. Nowadays, we’ve got a name for
this; we call this a hostile take-over.
Some of the places they say, “I call it stabbing them in the back.” Undermining the leadership; there’s names for
this, and we have recognized these things today. We see them when they come. Absalom, his lesson has taught very well. We see this type of thing today. We see it on jobs. I work at a place where they have an entire
engineering staff, and the engineers had stopped talking to each other because,
if someone had done some research, or come up with a right idea, and they would
have conversation with several other people about it, somebody else would take
that idea, hurry up and work on it, and take it to the boss, and it would be their idea, so they would get the
promotion. This is the process for promotion
that Absalom taught. We also see this in
families, where one kid will say, “I’m going to run and tell dad,” “I’m going
to run and tell mom,” in such a way that one will be looked at a little less,
and one will be looked at a little greater.
You’ll see it. Sometimes you will
even see it in in-laws—oh, I better leave that alone, but sometimes you will
even see an undermining going on there.
You’ll also see it, not just in jobs, or in families—we’ve seen it
before—you’ll see this in relationships.
“I thought he was my friend.
Smiled in my face all the time, and wanted to take my place.” Yeah, you’ll see this kind of—you’ll call it
an attitude, but the Word calls it a spirit. You will see this spirit undermining
civilization, society today. And, unfortunately,
you'll also see this in ministries.
You’ll also see this in churches.
Maybe the leadership says a certain thing, and there’s an
undermining. Somebody says, “Well, I
don’t think they really know what they’re talking about. I think that I could do a better job than
them.” Yes, it is a spirit that attacks,
that really attacks the foundation, but, in all these places that we just
named, whether families, relationships, whether jobs, even ministries, this is
not where it started. It first started
before the world was, when one rose up and said, "I will be like the most
High." It started long before this
came along, so this is just recipients of what that spirit first started to do
in implementation of down here. It first
started with, the Bible says, Lucifer, son of the morning. But, the point is, on the one
hand, you have Joshua, who for forty years, showed us a process of promotion
that led the people into the Promised Land.
And, on the other hand, we have Absalom, who, for forty years, stole the
hearts of the people, and led the nation into civil war. A civil war. Part 2: A Greater Purpose One more lesson from some people
that knew King David. 1 Chronicles 11: 9-10 So David waxed greater and greater: for
the LORD of hosts was with him. These
also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened
themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king,
according to the Word of the LORD concerning Israel. This
point is a point to always remember. It talks
about them being mighty men, but it says, the only big thing that it says that
they did was they strengthened themselves with David to make him king
according—not just to make him king—but, according to the Word of the Lord. 1 Chronicles 11: 11-13 And this is the number of the mighty men
whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted
up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time. And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo,
the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties. He was with David at
Pas–dammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle, where
was a parcel of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the
Philistines. Okay, I need some help,
here. Joe, come on up here and
stand. You don’t need your Bible, just
come up here and stand. So, we need you
to be Jashobeam. And you mentioned
Eleazar; we need an Eleazar. Daniel,
come on up. I know your name is Daniel,
but, Eleazar, come on up. We need some
mighty men; we need some mighty men. I
know, we could have chosen anybody.
Jashobeam, Eleazar, okay. 1 Chronicles 11: 14-20 And they set themselves in the midst of
that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved
them by a great deliverance. Now three
of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of
Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. And David was then in the hold, and the
Philistines' garrison was then at Beth–lehem. And David longed, and said, Oh that one would
give me drink of the water of the well of Beth–lehem, that is at the gate! And the three brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth–lehem, that was by the
gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it,
but poured it out to the LORD, And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do
this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in
jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he
would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest. And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief
of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and
had a name among the three. Henry, can I use you, Brother
Henry? Henry? Yeah, you.
Can you come on up? I need an
Abishai. So, we got Jashobeam, we got
Eleazar, we need an Abishai. We need
some mighty men; that’s what this is, the mighty men. The point is, you know, through life, once
you reach a certain maturity, after you get to a certain age, you think about
certain things. You think about whether there
is a God, or whether there isn’t a God.
You think about, “How am I going to support myself? What kind of career or what kind of
attributes am I going to have?” You
think about what’s going to happen with your life. You think about what’s going to be relevant
for you. “How am I going to be
identified? How am I going to have
purpose?” and you think about, “What is going to define me?” And, once you think about what is relevant to
you, what defines you, generally, generally, people go one of two ways. We will
either say, “I will let this part of society define me; I will get my college
degree. I will be able to run
faster. I will be smarter; I will be
craftier,” whatever. “By being
successful in those things, that will help to define me.” Or, you might say, “I’m going to have a big
family; by having a big family, that will define me.” Or, you might say, “I’m going to have a bigger
house; I’m going to have a bigger car.
I’m going to be a politician, and that’s going to define me. Once my name is spread, because everyone will
know my name on this earth. I want
people to know me, I want make a mark, I want to make a difference in all of
life, in all of life. Or, the other side, you will say,
“I really don’t care about other people or what they think about me; I really
want to make my own definition for myself, so, what am I going to say that is
relevant to me? What is going to be
relevant to me, that is what I am going to esteem to me. No different, it hasn’t been any different
for hundreds, for thousands of years; it hasn’t been any different. So these three were subject to the
same thing, these mighty men. So,
Jashobeam, it says he took a spear, and he wiped out three hundred. Three hundred men, all by himself. Eleazar, it says there was a parcel of
food—it wasn’t like it is now. Nowadays,
you go down to, well, Giant’s is in Baltimore, Jewel’s or Wal-Mart or
Marciano’s or whatever they’re called, you go to a market, and there’s plenty
of food to choose from. It was not that
way at this time. In those days, if you
could get a parcel of food, you could feed a good chunk of your society, or
your civilization. Well, the Philistines
knew that that food would do them good, too.
So, the Philistines said, “We’re going to go down, and we’re going to
take that parcel of food.” Well,
Eleazar, and a few others, stood in the middle of the parcel, and slew
them. You were greatly outnumbered; you
slew them. Eleazar. Abishai, it says he also lifted up his spear
and wiped out three hundred. I don’t
know how long that would take, but, man, he must’ve had some shoulders to keep
that up. So, these three, they are
called mighty men. And, to them, they
weren’t mighty men before this whole thing started. They were obedient. Now we need a David. Andy, can we use you to be David? We have to prove this point, here. The mighty men. So, David, he’s the man that God has
called. You are the man that God has
called. You were a little kid, and
Samuel came over and cracked open the oil, and, “Waah! You’re going to be king, one day. I’m anointing you, because God’s going to be
all over you.” And you’ve got some
battles going on, but people know that you are the one who got anointed by
Samuel. When Samuel does something, when
the prophet does something, people notice.
So, you now have become king.
And, now that you are king, these good men, Abishai, Eleazar and
Jashobeam, you guys are good! You’re
good all by yourselves. Do you think,
“Do you really need to yoke yourselves with David?” That’s what you would think. The Bible says that these good men—well, it
says these men, they strengthened themselves with David, to make him king, according
to the Word of the Lord, and then they became mighty. Because you followed the will of God, you
went from good to mighty. Because, when
you follow, when you follow God’s will, they prove, they prove that God brings
opportunity. God brings opportunity when
we follow God’s order. Any one of
you. And I’m sure other people could
have said, “Abishai, you are one big dude, man!
You don’t have to be following David; do your own thing.” “Eleazar, everybody knows, everybody knows
about you, man. Tell you what, we don’t
need this whole thing. We’ll just be in
allegiance with you. How’s that?” “And, Jashobeam, you know what? You’re kind of like me, you know? What say we make our own league?” And, when these men turn around and say,
“Uh-uh. We have strengthened ourselves
with the king, in accordance to the Word of the Lord.” I’m sure other people would have thought,
“You know what? Just a bunch of yes-men. You don’t do your own thing! You’re pitiful! All you do is what somebody else does! I don’t understand it!” And the three mighties would say, “Of course
you don’t understand it. You know why
you don’t understand it? You don’t have
the same purpose. You’re not seeking the
same things. We got here because of the
Word of the Lord! We were all right
before, but since we gave ourselves to the work of the Lord, now you know us as
mighty! And you don’t understand. Connect the dots.” And David never took advantage. So David says, “You know what? I would really love a drink of that water that
comes from Bethlehem.” They didn’t have
this bottled water thing going on back then.
If you wanted some good, fresh water, good luck. But David said, “Oh, I would love to have a
drink of water from that brook that was in Bethlehem. Oh, that water was good to me.” These guys heard about it, and said, “Not a
problem. We don’t care if that’s our
enemy’s land.” It said that they broke
through the host, got the water, “Here, King, for you.” And David did not take their walks with God lightly. “You did it out of service to me and to God. I know that you did it with peril of your own
life to get me water; I pour it out
as an offering to Almighty God, because he is the true king.” Thank you, brothers. Now, it was wrong—it would have
been wrong for Jashobeam, or Eleazar, or Abishai to say, “Well, you know, I
need to do things—I know I’m going to be a giant, but I need to do things like
Eleazar. I know I took out three hundred
men, but this guy took care of a whole garrison of Philistines.” And it would have been wrong for Jashobeam to
say, “I know I wiped out three-hundred, but they were three-hundred
Ammonites. That guy took care of
three-hundred Moabites. You know, I need
to be more like Abishai.” The point here
is, when God calls you, whatever He calls you to do, you don’t get into
comparing yourselves. God calls teachers,
and He calls apostles, He calls leaders, He calls evangelists; God calls so
many people in His life. It is
impossible for any two to be the same.
So, if we were to confine our mind to say, “Well, I’m supposed to be a
teacher or an evangelist, and the only way to do it is to do it like this!” Open our minds to what God has called us to
do. It will be so special, because He’s
already prepared that. The Bible says, “Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor entered into our hearts what He has prepared (1
Corinthians 2:9). He’s already prepared
it. He’s already prepared it! With all these scenarios, God had already set
them up, He was just waiting for people to dedicate, and make themselves
available. And, to some this would have
looked strange, and, that’s the same way it looks now. Did you know that Christians, if you have God
in your life, you’re looked at as strange?
Yeah, absolutely, you are, and you’re supposed to be! If you’re looked at as you’re the same as
everybody else, there’s a problem. You’re
supposed to be stranger than other people.
You know why? Because we don’t
seek the same things. Christians don’t
seek the same things. Christians don’t
have the same purpose as the world. Which
brings us to a Scripture we've heard, we heard it shared in men’s fellowship;
we’ve heard it shared so much, one of the brothers told me, “I keep hearing
that Scripture shared so much; I keep hearing it over, and over, and over, and
over, and over, and over!” Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and
his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. It tells us that we need to seek
first—as the mighty men sought David first, we need to seek first the Kingdom
of God and His righteousness. And His
righteousness, and then, Saints, all these things shall be added unto us. All these things shall be added unto us. Part 3: Follow the Right One As David's mighty men followed
David, we’re not called to follow David. And Joshua, with that awesome walk of God,
forty years, going strong, followed Moses, and then was given to take the
people into the Promised Land. What an
awesome testimony, and yet, we’re not called to follow Moses. We follow the one
to whom all of them pointed to. We
follow the one that, the Bible says, they could see afar off. Mark 10:28-30 Then Peter began to
say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. [speaking to the Lord Jesus] And
Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There
is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother,
or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's, But he shall
receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and
mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come
eternal life. The one thing that God did that
nobody else can touch: He gave us
eternal life. So, what do we get, what
do we get for following the Lord? Everything. We get everything. Amen.
Give the Lord a praise.
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