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0:11>> 2 Kings 18.
0:14And then I'm going to read one verse
0:16from 2 Chronicles 32. You can go there
0:20if you'd like. It's one verse. 2
0:22Chronicles 32.
0:24But my main reading is going to be from
0:262 Kings 18.
0:29I do not mean to keep you standing, but
0:32it will save me time
0:36uh later if as I read I make just some
0:39pointed comments.
0:42Verse one, 2 Kings 18. Now it came to
0:46pass in the third year of Hosa
0:49son of Eli, king of Israel,
0:53that Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, king of
0:55Judah, began to reign. We know that the
0:58northern kingdom was different from the
1:00southern kingdom of Judah. They had
1:03split
1:05uh many many many generations earlier.
1:08We also know that Ahaz, Hezekiah's
1:11father, was one of the more wicked, vile
1:14kings ever to sit on Judah's throne. And
1:17isn't it amazing that a wretch like that
1:20could produce such a wonderful man such
1:22as Hezekiah?
1:2525 years old was heekiah when he began
1:28to reign. He reigned 20 and n years in
1:31Jerusalem. His mother's name also was
1:33Abi, the daughter of Zachchariah. Note,
1:36he did that which was right. Thank God
1:41>> in the sight of the Lord. According
1:45to the benchmark of greatness
1:48time and time again, they either did
1:50according to what David did or they did
1:52not. He became the benchmark according
1:56he did that which was right according to
1:58all that David his father did. Notice he
2:01removed the high places. Break down the
2:04images. Cut down the groves. Break in
2:07pieces the brazen serpent that when the
2:11serpents were biting everybody because
2:13of their rebellion. Moses was commanded
2:16to make a brazen serpent. and everyone
2:18that looked upon it was healed of their
2:22bitten malady. Well, the people made a
2:26idol out of it and they've been worship
2:28worshiping it for hundreds and hundreds
2:31and hundreds of years. So, he took that
2:35brazen serpent and broke it in pieces.
2:39Verse five, he trusted in the Lord God
2:41of Israel. And notice this.
2:44So that none or after him was none like
2:49him
2:50among all the kings of Judah, nor
2:54any that were before him.
2:57That's an amazing statement.
3:00For he claved to the Lord. He departed
3:03not from following him, but kept his
3:04commandments.
3:06So this man became his own benchmark.
3:11Then
3:12a really amazing odd
3:16verse.
3:182 Chronicles 32
3:21verse 31.
3:252 Chronicles 32
3:28verse 31.
3:31How be it?
3:34That's never good, is it?
3:37in the business of the ambassadors of
3:40the princes of Babylon,
3:43who sent unto him to inquire of the
3:46wonder
3:48that was done in the land.
3:51God
3:53left him.
3:56He left that good man.
3:59He left him to try him that he might
4:04know all that was in his heart.
4:11Now let's ask our great God and Savior
4:16to really deeply,
4:19profoundly talk to every one of us
4:22tonight. Lord Jesus, we are exceedingly
4:27mindful of you,
4:29of your presence, of your great
4:32greatness
4:33and mercy.
4:35We're asking that we might know your
4:37ways and see your grace manifest, God,
4:41your love manifest, that you would have
4:44your perfect way and will. Tonight we
4:48commit our hearts, our every single
4:50heart and this service completely into
4:54your hands in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
4:58Amen. Thank you so much for your
5:00patience in standing. You may certainly
5:02be seated.
5:07Now,
5:08uh, because we did take the time to, uh,
5:13list
5:15enunciate a little bit of the credos of
5:17this man we're dealing with. We
5:19understand that this is a very
5:22exceptional man.
5:25And um, David
5:28the benchmark for kings
5:31because he was a man after God's own
5:34heart. Much much much much much
5:39and much good speculation has gone into
5:42why God would place
5:46an accolade like that on David. We know
5:50the many many wondrous wonderful things
5:52he did. We're also aware that his life
5:56was not perfect
5:58and that between
6:01the horrid fiasco
6:05with Beth Sheeba,
6:08the
6:10slaying of her husband or having him
6:12slayed by enemies
6:14to which he had pulled himself back from
6:18his numbering of the people and the fact
6:20that he just basically wasn't a very
6:22good father.
6:23never even saying to his children, at
6:25least to adj what are you doing?
6:28Uh he had some flaws, some deep ones,
6:31but he did know how to repent
6:33thoroughly, deeply, and powerfully. And
6:36don't ever, ever, ever, ever
6:37underestimate that, ever.
6:41And don't ever else underestimate that
6:44for whatever reason God had wrapped up
6:46in David to call him a man after mine
6:48own heart. You might take note of this.
6:51He was the first man in scripture
6:55in scripture to tell God that he loved
6:58him.
6:59Abraham feared him and God knows what a
7:03great man Joseph Moses all the but Jo
7:05but but David was the first one to say I
7:09love you Lord.
7:11>> So that's something else to consider.
7:13>> Praise God.
7:15>> And so he was his own benchmark. Now
7:17this man there was nobody quite like
7:19him. So however great David was, there
7:22was areas and arenas where Hezekiah was
7:26was was more special in his own way,
7:29neither before or after. There is one
7:31man after a descendant of Hezekiah and
7:34David named Josiah that it says neither
7:37was there anybody like him before or
7:40after.
7:41But it qualifies it that says that did
7:44so seek the Lord
7:48like did Josiah.
7:50So he was noted because of his utterly
7:53absolutely intense seeking of God and to
7:57keep his word.
7:59And in fact, so great was Josiah that
8:02when he died in a u in a battle to which
8:06he shouldn't even have been involved, it
8:08it triggered a heartbreak, a heart
8:11sorrow, a breaking up of the prophet
8:14Jeremiah
8:16that the Holy Ghost would use that and
8:18he would pin a book called Lamentations.
8:23And it was the death of Josiah that
8:25triggered that
8:28that unbelievable book. So with this all
8:32being said, we're we understand we're
8:34dealing with a very exceptional man.
8:38Even secular historians give this man
8:43credit. There are other secular
8:45historians don't even believe David
8:46existed. Duh. But thank God his name was
8:50found on a column about 5 years ago. So
8:52that finally shut them up. But um you
8:55give God enough time. He takes care of
8:57the scoffers. But be all that as it may,
9:02uh this man Hezekiah, I was reading uh
9:05events that changed world history. and a
9:10secular author. He wasn't he wasn't
9:13attributing it to the miracle and God
9:15intervening. But he does state that a
9:18turning point in the history of the
9:20world was when Sekcharb, the king of
9:23Assyria, had surrounded Jerusalem with
9:26his 180,000man army. And that boasting,
9:31cursing, vile, braggard, proud man woke
9:35up to find every one of his men dead.
9:39And even a secular historian stated that
9:42had that army not died, been defeated,
9:46that
9:48Jerusalem would have fallen. They would
9:50have been slain. Hezekiah would have
9:52produced no seed
9:55and there would hence be no Jesus Christ
9:58born.
10:00and not that he was a believer in Jesus
10:03Christ but without him he knew he did
10:07change the world
10:08>> right so so this man is very very
10:12special
10:14and then we come to second chronicles
10:17written probably by Ezra
10:21uh it is definitely after the children
10:24of Israel come from Babylon that it's
10:26written and and and and they this
10:30insight sight is given. Now, after
10:33Sinekarb had been defeated and then he
10:35had been slain by his own boys,
10:38uh during during all of this situation,
10:41Hezekiah is very very sick. And then
10:45Isaiah is spoken to by God. Isaiah goes
10:47to Hezekiah, says, "Set your house in
10:49order. Thou shalt die and not live."
10:52That's pretty plain. Then he turns his
10:55face to the wall and begins to beseech
10:57and weep and cry out to his God. And
11:00before Isaiah is outside the middle
11:02court, God says, "Go back. I've heard
11:04his cry."
11:06>> And he says, "You've got 15 more years."
11:09Amen. So ambassadors
11:13from it's not a fledgling nation.
11:16Babylon is a great nation, but but they
11:19have not yet taken on by any means that
11:22world preeminence that they would under
11:24Nebuchadnezzar.
11:26But these ambassadors come and uh they
11:30come to Hezekiah to see the wander.
11:33>> Yeah.
11:33>> Because Hezekiah was so blessed and
11:35Israel, Judah rather, was so so blessed
11:39with him that it became a wander of the
11:42earth, let alone what happened to the
11:44Assyrian army and and his riches and his
11:48husbandry and all. And so there was
11:50nothing in the kingdom. He didn't show
11:51him. And then he took him to his house
11:54and there was no chamber. There was no
11:55closet. There was no There was no
11:57storoom. There was no special place.
12:00There was He showed them every treasure.
12:03No doubt magnificent
12:05treasures that had been gathered and
12:08garnered by the kings through the
12:11centuries that he had accumulated. Some
12:13of Solomon's, some of David's.
12:16And so when they left, Isaiah said, I'm
12:20going to interpolate here.
12:22What did what did they see in your
12:24house? Here's inter. Well, do what?
12:30What did they see in your house?
12:37Everything.
12:39There's nothing they didn't see.
12:42Well, every treasure their eyes beheld.
12:46Thus sayaith the Lord, Babylon is coming
12:50back and they will take every single
12:53item that was seen
12:57during their trek here today.
13:00So Hezekiah is long long dead. Ahaz
13:04that or excuse me Manasseh his son is
13:07long long dead. Josiah then dies on and
13:11on.
13:12But the Babylonians come, they didn't
13:15come as retribution because of this lack
13:17of discretion on Hezekiah's part.
13:21Nebuchadnezzar came because of the utter
13:23absolute abject wickedness that Judah
13:27embraced after Hezekiah's death during
13:30the reign of Manasseh and on down
13:32through Zedekiah and Joakeim and etc,
13:34etc., Josiah being the only exception.
13:37and and and and and that's why God
13:40judged them. But had Hezekiah not shown
13:45them everything, the inference is is
13:48that some of those things somehow
13:50someway would have been spared.
13:54But the most interesting thing
13:57is that
13:59this this lack of discretion, this lack
14:02of intuitive,
14:05you know,
14:07I don't think we're not going in there
14:09right now. And uh th this lack but this
14:12this business of here's everything this
14:15lack of of of of something
14:19took place because
14:22God stepped back from him.
14:26Though he was in the Old Testament, the
14:28spirit of the Lord was on him as it was
14:30on David
14:32and and it was on them and it was kind
14:34of a residual
14:36encompassing of God's spirit. But it's
14:38not like the Holy Ghost that you can
14:40have today.
14:41>> All right?
14:42>> The Holy Ghost today dwells in you.
14:46>> It dwells in you.
14:48>> And you better take care of it
14:51>> because he said, Paul said, "I'm
14:52persuaded it's in you except you be
14:54reprobate."
14:56>> So if you go so far that the spirit
14:58leaves that temple such as it left
15:01Ezekiel's, destruction's next.
15:05>> Now, I'm just I'm just talking here. I
15:07don't pretend to understand all this
15:09stuff, but if somebody has walked with
15:11God, had the Holy Ghost, and left God,
15:14there may be just a tiny residual enough
15:17left of the spirit of God. Not enough to
15:19get them out of this world, by no means.
15:21That's got to be renewed
15:24that there's enough left that he can be
15:25crucified daily.
15:29So, but they the spirit of the Lord that
15:32was on them in those days,
15:35David said, "Don't take your Holy Spirit
15:37from me. Don't take it from me." And and
15:40we know that God came back to Hezekiah.
15:43But but it's like he just stepped back.
15:47One translation says, "God withdrew from
15:50Hezekiah in order to test him and to see
15:52what was really in his heart." Another
15:55paraphrase, "God left him to see what he
15:57would do. He wanted to test his heart.
16:00And and uh and then an other one
16:05puts it on this wise.
16:10God left him by himself in order to test
16:13him. This is the this is the common
16:15Jewish Bible. So that he might know
16:17everything that was in his heart. He
16:20just stepped back and left him on his
16:23own
16:25for just enough time that he didn't do
16:28sinfully. It wasn't sinful. Nothing that
16:31he did was sinful, but it wasn't the
16:33smartest thing he ever did.
16:37Now, there's three things we learned
16:38from that. And I'm starting slow. And I
16:41got news. We may end slow,
16:44but I have a burden in my heart tonight.
16:48There are several lessons we need to
16:50learn from here. I'm going to give you
16:51three of them. Number one, everybody
16:53ready? We need God's grace continually.
16:59>> We need him.
17:00>> God, I don't I don't want to let you go
17:02for a second. Don't let me go for a
17:04second. I I got to have you in my heart,
17:07my mind, my soul, my spirit. I want I
17:09want you on me, in me, with me at all
17:12times. Please.
17:13>> Praise God. Number two,
17:17God is going to know what's in us.
17:19>> All right.
17:21>> Now, this is interesting. Why couldn't
17:24God just know what was in him without
17:25backing off from him? Why was it that
17:28God said to Abraham, "Now, Abraham, you
17:31waited 25 years to get this child of
17:33promise. And you have doted on this
17:36child now for many years." And so when
17:39when one day God speaks to Abraham and
17:42says, "Take thy son Isaac, thine only
17:44son, whom thou lovest, to a top of a
17:46mount that I will show thee, and offer
17:47him there as a burnt sacrifice unto me."
17:52We're not talking about a little boy.
17:54We're talking about a young man at
17:56minimum in his strong teens that is
17:59strong enough to carry enough wood up a
18:03mountain that once laid out it would be
18:07enough wood that once he was slain it
18:09would burn him up as a burnt offering.
18:13This is a big pile of wood. So if he's
18:16strong enough to carry that much wood,
18:20let's just say he was 20. He might have
18:23been 17, 18, 20.
18:26He could have been 33.
18:30Be that as it may, if he's that strong
18:33to carry that much wood to the top, he's
18:36also strong enough to take a 120 year
18:38old man and throw him off a hill.
18:41>> That's right.
18:43>> So, he Abraham was being checked out and
18:45Isaac was being checked out.
18:47>> All right.
18:48And Isaac looks around and he says, "Now
18:50here's fire and here's wood and I see
18:53the knife on your hip if you please, but
18:56I don't see the offering.
18:59God will provide himself a lamb for now.
19:03Son, lay down."
19:06And he didn't have to he didn't have to
19:08gag him and he didn't have to tie him.
19:11He didn't have to trust him.
19:13He laid down willingly. No doubt he
19:16shuddered and shivered and no doubt he
19:18groaned and no doubt he closed his eyes.
19:22But his father raised that knife and God
19:24said, "Stop. Don't touch him. Now
19:29I know
19:31that thou fierce me.
19:34>> Now I know. Don't touch him." And in
19:36fact, I know a lot about Isaac right
19:38now, too, if you please.
19:40and and and and and so it's like God,
19:43this omnisient God that knows
19:45everything, nevertheless has chosen
19:47dimensions whereby
19:50when he experiences something with us,
19:55it's chocked up as now I
20:00really know
20:02because it's not just future tense. It's
20:06acted out. Good or bad, he knows. Okay.
20:12Anybody glad for the blood?
20:15>> Anybody glad for mercy? Anybody glad?
20:19>> Okay.
20:21>> And here's the third thing that's very
20:22important about that lesson. Listen, we
20:26need to know what lurks within us.
20:29>> All right.
20:30>> We do.
20:31>> Amen. David said, "Try me, Lord. See if
20:33there be any wicked way in me.
20:35He probably said that before he fell
20:39with Bath Sheba,
20:43but he asked God to try. He said, "I
20:45want to know if there's something in me
20:46that's not right." Well, when he got
20:48done repenting, buddy, he knew. He knew.
20:51He knew. He knew. He knew. So, so point
20:55being, we need God's grace at all time.
20:58Amen. God is going to know. We need to
21:00know what lurks within us. The reason
21:03all this is so huge is because Jesus
21:06said in 155 of the Gospel of John,
21:09"Without me, you can't do anything.
21:13Without me, you can do nothing." We need
21:15him.
21:17>> And the Apostle Paul writing from a
21:19Roman jail said, "I can do all things
21:23through Christ.
21:24>> Without him, I can't do anything. With
21:26him, I can do all things."
21:28>> So, we need him. We've got to have him.
21:32Amen. This is why in Ephesians 2 also
21:34written
21:36from the same Roman jail that in the
21:40ages to come he our great great God
21:44might show the exceeding riches of his
21:47grace and his kindness towards us
21:49through Christ Jesus. For by grace are
21:52you saved through faith and that not of
21:55yourselves. It's a gift of God.
21:57>> Amen. not of works, lest any man should
22:00boast. Amen. So, we need him at all
22:04times.
22:04>> Right.
22:05>> We need to know if there's anything in
22:07us that'll keep us from going all the
22:09way that we can work on it and take care
22:11of it. That's
22:12>> right.
22:12>> And when we get there, Amen. We know in
22:16Revelations 4:10 and 11, we will be part
22:18of that number
22:22that is given a crown,
22:25but we will take those crowns off our
22:27heads and throw them at his feet.
22:31>> Amen.
22:32>> I want an old running buddy.
22:35In fact, in the book Journey of a
22:37Lifetime, the first face
22:40to my right, that boy's name is Mike.
22:44And he read that book and got saved.
22:48The interesting thing about I hadn't
22:50talked to him in 30 years. He called me
22:52sobbing.
22:53This is Mike. Mike Mike wrote it. What?
22:56He was sobbing. I said, Mike, what's
22:58wrong? He said, I just read your book. I
23:02He said, you got have you got that book
23:04with you? Well, I can get it. He said,
23:06"Go to page." I don't remember what it
23:07was, 200 something something. And uh I
23:10thought he I thought I told a story
23:12about him or something. I didn't know
23:13what I did. And he said this, "I don't
23:16know what this means, but he's just
23:17tearing me to pieces." You know what he
23:19was looking at? Then Peter said unto
23:21them, "Repent and be baptized, every one
23:23of you, in the name of Jesus Christ."
23:27He said, "That's tearing me up."
23:31So I went back there and preached. His
23:33wife got the Holy Ghost. Baptized both
23:34of them and a week later he got the Holy
23:36Ghost.
23:38>> Amen.
23:42He's just a big God. And we went but but
23:44he hit the wall a couple years later. He
23:46hit the wall bad. Oh, he hit the wall
23:49bad.
23:50But God picked him up.
23:52>> Good church picked him up. They loved
23:54him back to health.
23:55>> And then he he felt so bad. He said,
23:58"Oh, Larry, I'm so I Well, I tell you
24:00what, Mike, let's just do this. at that
24:02great day. Let's me and you go to the
24:05back of that big crowd that no man can
24:08number and let's take off our crowns
24:10with everybody else and let's see who
24:12can throw their crown the furthest.
24:16>> Yes, sir.
24:17>> We just find out who can throw their
24:19crown the furthest. I got a feeling
24:21there's a lot of people going to be
24:22going to the back of the crowd
24:26because we know how good he's been to
24:29us.
24:30how good he's been.
24:33>> How good he's been. Amen.
24:37We need him every hour. We need him
24:38every minute. There's not a second we
24:40don't need him.
24:41>> That's right.
24:42>> Amen. I got to I got to I got I got to
24:44take off my watch and see what I'm doing
24:46here.
24:49I'll go for a while, but when I stop, I
24:51stop.
24:53That gives you hope. Had a friend of
24:56mine named Nikki. He was from Iran. He
24:58came to God. I came to God in 72. He
25:01came to God,
25:03I'm thinking about 73 or four. He was a
25:06foreign exchange student. He came and
25:08and they gave him somebody gave him a
25:10Bible study and he was turned off. But
25:12he found out they were strict
25:13monotheist. So that perked his interest.
25:15And then he found out that Jesus was
25:18that monotheistic God robed in flesh.
25:22And then he got
25:24the Holy Ghost. He got baptized in Jesus
25:27name. And I love Nikki. He was a good
25:30boy. We didn't go to the same church,
25:31but we we saw each other meetings and
25:34this and that. And I was good friends
25:35with the people that want him. And
25:37anyway, he went back to Iran and he was
25:40going to tell his parents. I'm still
25:42monotheistic, but I I believe in Jesus.
25:46I'm a Christian. But he choked. He
25:48didn't. Wasn't that they would have
25:50stoned him or killed him. The people
25:52there today would. But his family, he
25:56said, "What they'll do is they'll disown
25:58me. If I get back to the States, I'll
26:00have to find my own way. They won't
26:02allow me in the house. They won't allow
26:04me to sleep there. They will give me
26:05never another dime. They will write my
26:06name out of the will until the day
26:08they're all dead. Not one family member
26:11will ever repeat my name verbally."
26:16Well, he choked. And then he came back.
26:18He was back for another year. And then
26:19he went back and he choked again. And uh
26:24so a friend of mine, church he was in,
26:26pastor friend of mine was
26:29preaching one morning and he was on the
26:31front row and and while he was while he
26:34was teaching actually this this boy went
26:36Nikki went
26:43and he couldn't breathe.
26:46He started turning blue,
26:49red, then blue, then and of course here
26:52come the people sweeping around and the
26:53pastor said, "Everybody stand back." And
26:55this wasn't his nature, but he said,
26:57"Everybody get back. This is God."
27:00And they stepped back and he fell over
27:03on the seat and his eyes were big and he
27:06was turning purple.
27:08And a little old lady at the outside of
27:10the crowd gave a cry in tongues. And
27:14somebody on this side of the crowd gave
27:17the interpretation.
27:20I have your next breath in my hand.
27:27Fear not what man can do to thee, but
27:31rather fear me, for I have your next
27:36breath in my hand. And when the message
27:39was finished, Nikki went
27:44and he could breathe and his color came
27:46back.
27:48And then a few years later he went back,
27:50but it wasn't good timing. It was about
27:52the time that the Ayatollah Rahul Kamani
27:55left France
27:58and Ami Janadab was one of the students
28:02that was rioting
28:05and then they took the consulate captive
28:07and took our
28:09ambassador and all of our people there.
28:13I remember when the Sha was disposed and
28:16the Ayatollah was there. I was pastoring
28:18in Miami, Oklahoma. There was an old
28:20man. and he'd got the Holy Ghost in
28:211910.
28:23He got the revelation in 1915 in
28:25Houston. Charlie Smith went there and
28:27preached. And he and Charlie Smith
28:30together, left Houston and went right up
28:32the road to Elton
28:34and taught at the Elton Bible Conference
28:37together.
28:39And so I've recorded him 13 hours of of
28:42history that the University of
28:44Birmingham, England told French that
28:48right there and two of the things he had
28:50will guarantee you a PhD.
28:53They're impressed with it. Be that as it
28:55may. And and this old man, he was
28:58reading the paper about the disposed
29:01Shaw or him leaving hoping to come back.
29:05I'll never forget this moment, but at
29:07the time I didn't
29:10catch it. He folded up the paper and he
29:13said, "Brother Booker," I said, "Yes."
29:16He was in his 90s at that time.
29:20He said, "This business in Iran?" I
29:22said, "Yes." I hadn't been paying that
29:24close of attention, you know.
29:27He said, "This is the beginning of
29:29sorrows
29:31for the United States of America." This
29:34is before they took one
29:37person captive. This is the be. Now,
29:40here we are in 2016 and we're still
29:44dealing with Iran.
29:46>> Yeah.
29:48>> And they're shooting off missiles saying
29:50death to Israel and all this stuff. And
29:52we're giving them money to do it.
29:55>> Okay. Scratch that itch later. But
29:58anyhow,
30:00so beginning of sorrows for America
30:03and and so God is going to know what
30:06everything everywhere
30:09is made out of. And like Nikki, he still
30:12holds our next breath.
30:14>> Yes, he does.
30:17>> However many heartbeats your heart has
30:20beat since you entered this house, you
30:22have that many heartbeats less.
30:26The sands of the hourglass are dripping,
30:29dripping, and they are running out.
30:33Now, in
30:36the book of Exodus,
30:38if a man
30:40had a Hebrew servant, i.e./slave,
30:45he could have him for six years, but
30:47when it went into the seventh year,
30:50he was to go to that servant and say,
30:54"Here's the deal.
30:57The year is coming, the end,
31:00and you can stay and be a member of our
31:03household and still work or you can go
31:06out free. It's up to you. Now, if he
31:09came and he didn't have a wife, but he
31:11got a wife there in the house, had kids
31:13in there. If he left, you leave them.
31:16You don't take them.
31:20Okay? But if he came with him
31:23and and and and and he said, "But you
31:25make up your choice."
31:27So So at the end of that time,
31:31every master found out how every servant
31:34felt about
31:37his house, if he wanted to stay or go.
31:41Can I tell you something about being
31:43born again of the water and the spirit?
31:45We become members of the household of
31:47faith.
31:50And I'm not saying that God leaves us,
31:53but there comes times in the road of
31:56life
31:58that we feel like maybe he's left us.
32:02>> We don't feel strong grace, strong
32:06uncction, strong the the the verse, I
32:08was glad when they said unto me, let us
32:10go to the house of the Lord, may not be
32:12in our lips and maybe not even in our
32:14hearts. We just maybe we've been missing
32:16church too much. Maybe we've been been
32:18on the job too much or maybe we've been
32:20this too much or that too much. And and
32:21and and so we've been living for God for
32:24a while. We think everything's cool. But
32:26but he said to the servant, "I'm going
32:28to know now."
32:30>> Yes.
32:31>> Yeah.
32:34>> Stick around, Doc.
32:37Just teasing.
32:39He said, "I'm going to know now
32:42what you want to do. You came into the
32:45church. You didn't have a wife and kids.
32:46You came in. God gave your wife and
32:48kids, now you want to leave.
32:51Don't take them out. God gave them to
32:53you in this house of faith. Don't go
32:56dragging them out with you.
32:58And so if he said, "I want to stay even
33:01till the last second." He was to take
33:03him to the door
33:06and to put his ear against the doorpost.
33:10You can't put your ear against the
33:11doorpost with the door closed. The door
33:14had to be open.
33:16meaning
33:18your ear is at the doorpost.
33:21You can see that world and you can see
33:24in the house
33:29up to the last second you can say no
33:33I'm going out there
33:36or you can say
33:38I'll stay and all would go to your ear
33:42and a
33:44a little hole in that ear
33:47indicative of ear hearing ing he would
33:52never hear the same again.
33:57And we come to places in the road of
33:59life sometimes where people have gone
34:02out
34:04and they find out that out there is not
34:06really what they thought it would be.
34:08Such as a rich young ruler that said,
34:11"Father, give me give me the goods that
34:13belong to me." And the father gave to
34:15him. And not many days later can I tell
34:18you, he had his ear to the door of the
34:20house and he's looking out at the world
34:22out there and he's looking at his
34:24father's house
34:28and he goes
34:32for a while he's having quite a time. If
34:34there was letters coming home to his
34:36elder brother be having a great time.
34:38Wish you were here.
34:41letters maybe saying, "Man, if id have
34:44known it was this much fun, I'd have
34:45done it years ago."
34:48Sometimes when people leave God, they
34:50can kind of talk like that.
34:53Listen to me.
34:55The famine
34:57always arises.
34:59>> Yes, it does.
35:00>> It's never if. It's never if. It's
35:04always when.
35:05And you can say, "Well, but man, they
35:07got good cars and nice houses." No, no,
35:10no,
35:12no,
35:14no.
35:16You can be like the man that talked to
35:18me one time.
35:21I was preaching back east. When you live
35:23in California, everywhere is back east.
35:27And he came up to me after service and
35:28he sat down. I was waiting for the
35:30pastor and he said, "I feel like telling
35:32your story. Can I tell you?" I said,
35:33"Sure, I got time."
35:36He said many years ago, he said, "I had
35:38a beautiful brand new built
35:41multi-bedroom home, fourcar garage. I
35:44had three brand new cars, had beautiful
35:46children, had a beautiful wife.
35:50I was a blessing to the church."
35:55He said, "But I began
35:59I got cold. I got
36:04and he said, "So
36:06time went on
36:09and I found myself sitting in a little
36:11tiny hvel of a house
36:14in a stuffed chair that is so ripped up
36:17and the stuffing was out everywhere and
36:20the lenolium was walked through and the
36:22window panes were almost just the wind
36:25would rip through and and he said, "My
36:29world was wretched. I'd lost the cars.
36:32I'd lost my children. They hated me. My
36:35wife abhored me.
36:38And he said, "I was sitting there
36:43and I had a 45 caliber pistol on my
36:46leg."
36:49And he said, "I made this statement.
36:50God, you said you wouldn't put more on
36:52me than I could bear."
36:55He said, "I can't take it anymore." And
36:58I put the barrel in my mouth and I
37:01pulled back the hammer and I put my
37:04thumb on the trigger and he said,
37:06"Brother Booker,
37:09it's the only time in my life God has
37:11ever spoke to me,
37:14but he spoke to me."
37:19Well, he just sat there. I thought,
37:21"Duh,
37:23what did he say?"
37:26He said, "You want to know what he
37:27said?"
37:31As I started putting pressure on the
37:33trigger, he said, "You made your
37:36decisions, not me."
37:42And he thought one by one, every
37:44decision I made flashed before me.
37:49And I removed my thumb from the trigger
37:52and I said, "God,
37:55you're right. My decisions got me here.
38:00And if you'll help me by the grace of
38:02God, my decisions will get me out of
38:05this mess." He said, "Brother Booker,
38:08that was six years ago. I'm back full of
38:10the Holy Ghost." He said, "I've got a
38:12nice house. It's not like that. It's not
38:15new. I've got two good, really good
38:17cars. They're not brand new. He said,
38:19"But my kids love me now.
38:22They come and see me. My wife has given
38:24me rights." Said, "I'll never get her
38:26back. That's gone." But said, "My kids
38:29love me." And he said, "Every way I can,
38:33I bless the church in the kingdom."
38:40We find out things.
38:43We find out things.
38:45I uh I recently read well I didn't read
38:49the book I listened to on audio. There
38:52was cassette tapes. Duh.
38:56And I ordered them because I had a good
38:58friend of mine as brother Craft as a
39:00matter of fact. And he he went to a
39:03ranch that used to be not far from where
39:05I lived. I lived up on Highway 101, not
39:08far. I pastored for 12 and a half years.
39:10I had some horses. I had sheep and I had
39:14well whatever.
39:15And but there was a man down
39:18in the Santa Yianz mountains above Santa
39:21Barbara.
39:23And uh Brother Craft went to go spend a
39:27week on his ranch. Now he had to pay
39:294,000 bucks
39:32for that week,
39:34but he said it was worth it.
39:36And uh the man's name is Monty Roberts.
39:40Some of you may heard of the name. Monty
39:42Roberts was born in Selenus, can excuse
39:45me, Selenus, California in 1936,
39:49I think it was. And his father had a
39:52ranch there in the in the Selenus
39:54Valley. And his father was a rancher and
39:56he broke horses and did all kinds of
39:58stuff. But according to him, he said,
40:01"My father was not a nice man." And I
40:04used to watch him break horses and and
40:06he was harsh in the way it was. And
40:08breaking horses can be a tough business.
40:11When I was uh 12, 13ish, me and my
40:14cousin Virgil, we used to get paid five
40:16bucks ahead for every horse we could
40:19break.
40:21But it were Shetland ponies.
40:23[Laughter]
40:25But for those of you that know Shetland
40:26ponies,
40:28they can be really mean, dude.
40:32And so I thought, "This is easy money."
40:34Yeah, right. And so we get on the thing
40:37and got the settle and and the the pony
40:40every one of them they had this
40:41mentality. Okay, there's a cement. Well,
40:43good. There's a bobwire fence.
40:45Wonderful. There's a there's a there's a
40:47fence. Good. That's fine. It didn't
40:49care. It didn't care if it got hurt as
40:51long as it hurt you.
40:54And so whether it was cement or whatever
40:56and they went straight for it and bam,
41:00well, I didn't make many $5 bills, but I
41:02made enough to realize I think I will do
41:04something else.
41:07And I'm and and I know what we used to
41:09do. And so I'm I'm reading Monty
41:11Robert's book, The Man Who Lists to
41:13Horses Years Ago, and I got under so
41:16much condemnation because he abhored the
41:18way his father treated horses and him
41:21and his family.
41:23And and then they would go out into
41:26areas where there were wild horses and
41:28they're still there in California and in
41:29Nevada and in Arizona, not far from
41:32where I used to live. And then and they
41:34would uh and he watched these horses. He
41:37watched horses. He picked up things and
41:38he he watched them back at the ranch and
41:42he realized these horses he thought were
41:44talking to themselves,
41:46I mean to others, to each other. Long
41:49story short, at 15,
41:52this language that he now calls Equius,
41:55he went out into the area east of Santa
41:59Margarita, about that's north of me,
42:02about 45 minutes. And at 15 he went
42:05there and he's stocking these wild
42:07horses and he
42:10what he calls joining. He joined himself
42:13to a horse. It was a long long process.
42:16He didn't have to be cruel, mean. He won
42:19him.
42:21He harnessed his face. He he
42:25saddled him and he rode him back home.
42:31And when he rode back to his father's
42:34ranch,
42:36they said,
42:38"You got the luck of the draw. That
42:40horse was already broke. Somebody did
42:42that and it just got loose. Nobody
42:44believed him." Well, long story short,
42:47the Queen of England believed him
42:50because he's done things for the Queen
42:51of England and he's done things all over
42:53the world. They bring the wildest,
42:54craziest horses they got. Usually, it's
42:5720 minutes. At the most, it's 30. You
42:59put him in a round circle and he does
43:02body language and he watches him and he
43:04goes and within 20 to 30 minutes he has
43:07him bridled, saddled, blanketed, saddled
43:10and is riding the horse. He's done it
43:12all over the world. He has people that
43:14pay him big money to learn the language.
43:16He has a ranch in Santa Yianz, not far
43:20from Reagan's ranch, which was not far
43:22from Michael Jackson's Never Neverland.
43:26And uh and there they would there would
43:28be. And so then the years went by. He's
43:31done it for the queen. He's done it all
43:33over the world. And he's 62 years of
43:36age.
43:38And he gets to wondering,
43:42I've never broke but one horse
43:46that was totally in the wild with
43:50Equius. I wonder if I could do it again.
43:54Now, apparently, I found this out. I got
43:57this message a week ago. I preached this
43:59message the first time a week ago Sunday
44:00in our church. I preached it before I
44:03got here at one of the places I've been.
44:06And somebody told me they said there's
44:08actually a documentary on this. I
44:10haven't watched it.
44:12All right. I listen to the tapes.
44:15Apparently the BBC wanted to be in on
44:17it. Be all that as it may,
44:21he decides, I'm going to try it. He he
44:23gets some of his students. He gets some
44:24of his friends. They go up to Santa
44:27Margarita. They go out east. Then they
44:29go as far as they can. Then they get
44:31their horses. They get their they ready
44:33to go camping and they find some of the
44:36herds out there. And he's watching and
44:39he sees this one horse. He really takes
44:40a shine to. He thinks, "I like that
44:42horse." And and and so he on a horse
44:46separates that horse from the other
44:48horses.
44:50and he's 62 years of age and he spends
44:5236 hours in the saddle
44:56except for one three-hour nap. His horse
44:59get thirsty, that horse thirsty where he
45:01had to use two different horses, both of
45:04them trained by him.
45:07When he got his first break with this
45:09horse, he noticed he was heading north,
45:11north, north, and thought, "Why is he?"
45:12And then he remembered there is a
45:14somebody put a water trough way. I
45:18wonder if he's going to that water
45:20trough. And sure enough, that's where he
45:21went to this water trough. Well, he
45:23talks in the book about how cold he was
45:25as he going through the night. Well, he
45:27gets there and he's about 30, 40 yards
45:30away from this horse and this this wild
45:32mustang goes to get a drink.
45:38He goes to get a drink.
45:41He tries and tries and he gets he's
45:44wonder what's wrong with that. So the
45:46goes off about 30 40 yards and he comes
45:48and he finds out why because the ice has
45:51froze over.
45:53So he gets in the saddle bag, he breaks
45:55the ice and his horse very happily
45:57drinks that ice cold water and this
46:00horse is watching him.
46:03Then he backs his horse away
46:06and this horse
46:11comes to the water and drinks. It was
46:13the first
46:16breakthrough.
46:20Eventually,
46:23he's befriended him. He's put the halter
46:27on him, the blanket,
46:30and he rides him back to camp.
46:34He gets him in the trailer with the
46:36other horses. They go back down. And it
46:39becomes a very famous case. It's a very
46:41famous situation, apparently.
46:43Well, the problem was is that over the
46:45next year, he said he had hundreds of
46:47people, literally hundreds of people
46:49say, "How do you know that horse is
46:51happier?"
46:53What makes you think he wouldn't rather
46:56be out there? Why? How did you better
46:59this horse?
47:01And you can't exactly I mean, is you
47:03can't
47:05say, "Tell me, man."
47:09So
47:11it finally bothers him so much
47:15he says, "All right."
47:18He gets his students. He gets his
47:19friends.
47:21They get him in the trailers. They go
47:23back up to Santa Margarita. They head
47:26back east. It's in that area between
47:29Highway 101 and Highway Five Wilderness.
47:34And then he's got the horse that he's
47:37named Shy Boy.
47:41I would call what I'm preaching the saga
47:43of Shy Boy, but that's not the title.
47:46I'll give you the title a little bit
47:47later.
47:49So, Shy Boy is with him. And when they
47:51first spot here, the winningings of the
47:54herd, he said, "Shy Boy perked up."
48:00As they got closer and they were seeing
48:02him more, he said Shy Boy would become
48:04agitated. His ears were forward. He was
48:07he was intense. So they come to the
48:09place where they're going to make camp.
48:12They make the camp. They get all their
48:14gear out. They they cook the food and
48:16and it's getting just towards dark. Shy
48:20boy is agitated. Off in the distance
48:22there'll be a Winnie. And so then he
48:26the camp's getting very quiet.
48:29He takes Shy Boy to the edge of the
48:31camp.
48:35Shy boy is looking.
48:38He removes the halter.
48:41He said he never even looked back.
48:46It was like a racehorse at the Kentucky
48:49Derby when they opened the gates.
48:53And off Shy Boy ran as fast as he could
48:58into the night.
49:11He turned. He comes back into camp and
49:14ain't nobody talking.
49:18They're looking in the remnants of their
49:20coffee. today.
49:23He says, "I'm I'm going to bed early.
49:25I'm tired."
49:28So he he he goes, "But he said it was an
49:33all but sleepless night.
49:37Will he come back?
49:41Will he come back?
49:45Which world does he love?
49:51next morning he was the first one up cuz
49:54he was never the one to sleep.
49:58But they're going to cook breakfast and
50:01they did everything in slow motion.
50:06They drug it out as long as they could
50:09then
50:11and the talk is so minimal. It's just
50:13like yes, no. It's it's everybody's
50:16heart's heavy. It's and then they they
50:20well let's break camp. So, they're
50:21breaking camp, but again, everybody's
50:23just slow motion and but they get the
50:26horses all ready to go back back way
50:29back to where the trailers are. And
50:32Monty Roberts said he had his hand on
50:34the saddle horn in the back and he was
50:37putting his foot in the stirrup and in
50:40behind him he heard a winnie
50:44and he turned
50:48and about 250 yards away shy boy was
50:52just standing.
50:55Let's all stand.
51:00musicians come
51:05and Monty Roberts.
51:10He didn't say this, but I can't I know
51:13he's a cowboy and he's tough, but come
51:15on.
51:16I can't imagine his breath, his intake,
51:19his heart.
51:22And he said,
51:26"Shy boy is looking at him." And then he
51:29puts one hoof forward and then another
51:33and he just starts walking. Nobody is
51:36saying anything. Even the horses are
51:39quiet.
51:41They're watching Shy Boys. He slowly
51:44walked. He said he got about a hundred
51:46yards away and he stopped
51:51and he just stood there looking at Monty
51:53Roberts.
51:55probably the way many of you are looking
51:57at me.
52:01And he's waiting and he just stood there
52:05and then the horse bolted.
52:10Monty just he's running as fast as he
52:14can full throttle
52:18and he stops
52:2010 yards away
52:23and he's staring at Monty Roberts.
52:27Monty's just standing there. He's just
52:28standing there. He's not moving.
52:34And shy boy
52:38comes.
52:43Monty Roberts is not moving
52:48and he puts his nose
52:51and he nuzzles him.
52:56And that's when Monty Roberts, he's
52:57still too tough to say he cried,
53:01but he grabbed that horse's neck and he
53:03hugged him for everything he was worth.
53:09And here's the title of what I've been
53:11preaching to you. Coming home never more
53:15to Rome.
53:19>> That horse was there. He saw the old
53:22buddies,
53:24the old crew. used to run with.
53:27But it didn't matter.
53:30I can't speak for the horse, what went
53:32through his mind. But
53:35back home, these these horses, they'll
53:38kick me. They'll fight for position.
53:40They want the But back home,
53:43there's somebody that loves me.
53:47If I get sick, they'll they'll give me
53:49medicine. If I get hungry, they'll feed
53:51me. And it won't be this
53:54rancid stuff. out here.
53:57At home, I don't have to worry when I
53:59get thirsty. They've always got what I
54:02need to quench my thirst.
54:06At home, they groom me.
54:09At home, they hug me.
54:12At home, they care for me.
54:18Can I tell you something? There's no
54:19place like home.
54:22Is anybody glad
54:25for the home place?
54:28Anybody glad that God loves us? Anybody
54:31glad? Is anybody glad he's here tonight?
54:35Can I tell you he's here? The father has
54:40run. He's been looking. You say, "But I
54:42got a long ways to go." He met him while
54:44he was a far off.
54:49The boy was ready to come home. You say,
54:52"Oh, yeah, but he was in the hog pin.
54:55Who wouldn't come home?" No, no, no, no.
54:56That dad died one day. That boy had an
54:59elder brother. I hope he changed. But
55:01somewhere years later, you can mark this
55:04down.
55:07That boy had money and he thought about
55:11the old boys and the parties
55:15and he said, "No,
55:19I've had all that I want.
55:23I'm staying in the house.
55:27I'm staying with I'm staying with God's
55:30people because I'm going to God's
55:33heaven."
55:35And right now,
55:37I'm opening this altar.
55:40I'm opening it to everybody.
55:44You may be here and maybe you've just
55:47been feeling like, "I don't know where
55:49God's at. Maybe he's withdrawn from me
55:52to see what I want." Well, I want you to
55:55know, God, you're what I want.
55:59>> I want to be close to you. I want to
56:02love you. I want to feel you. I want to
56:04know you. I want to do your work. Or
56:07maybe you're here today like Shy Boy.
56:10You ran off in the night, but you're
56:12back because God loves you.
56:16Come on, sir.
56:19Come on, ma'am. Come on, young man. Come
56:21on, young lady. Come on, ma'am. Come on.
56:24Come on. Come on, mama. Come on, daddy.
56:27Come on.
56:28It's a good time.
56:31It's a good time for anybody. It's a
56:33good time for everybody.
56:36Come on. God's calling. God's reaching.
56:38That's God tugging at your heart. Come
56:42on, sir. Come on. Come on. Come on,
56:45child of God. You feel something beating
56:47in your heart? God, I want to cinch it
56:49up tonight.
56:51I'm yours and you're mine. And by the
56:54grace of God, I'm not going anywhere.
56:56[Applause]
56:59Let's gather, sir. Let's gather, ma'am.
57:02Come on. Come on. God loves you tonight.
57:06You're not here cuz you thought it was a
57:08good idea. God brought you cuz he cares
57:10about you. He loves you. Come on, sir.
57:13Come on now.
57:17He's tugging at your heart.
57:21[Applause]
57:27>> He's here to help.
57:30[Music]
57:32Come on. He's here to help. He loves
57:33you.
57:36>> Come on. He's here to help. He cares
57:38about you.
57:40>> That's it.
57:42That's it. Come on. Yes. That's it.
57:44That's exactly right.
57:46>> That's exactly right. Come on. Come on.
57:49Let God do what he wants to do.
57:54[Applause]
57:56>> Too long.
57:58I try.
58:03[Music]

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