Larry Booker preaching When Loses Become Victories — Transcript

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6. 0:14i'm going to be reading today from two
7. 0:16places in scripture
8. 0:18the first is philippians chapter number
9. 0:21one
10. 0:23we're going to start with verse 20 the
11. 0:25second will be jeremiah 20 and 14
12. 0:29but
13. 0:32in philippians 1
14. 0:35starting with verse 20
15. 0:39according
16. 0:41to my earnest expectation and my hope
17. 0:45that in nothing
18. 0:47i shall be ashamed
19. 0:50but that with all boldness as always so
20. 0:52now also christ
21. 0:55shall be magnified in my body whether
22. 0:59it be by
23. 1:01life or by
24. 1:03death
25. 1:05for
26. 1:06to me to live is christ and to die is
27. 1:10gain
28. 1:11but if i
29. 1:13live in the flesh
30. 1:14this is the fruit of my labor yet what
31. 1:18i shall choose i what not and then he
32. 1:20says this
33. 1:22for i am in a straight
34. 1:25twixt to
35. 1:27having a desire to depart
36. 1:30and to be with christ which is
37. 1:33far
38. 1:34better
39. 1:35nevertheless to abide in the flesh is
40. 1:40more needful for you
41. 1:44then in
42. 1:45jeremiah
43. 1:4820 and verse 14
44. 1:51jeremiah gives a lament
45. 1:54he was not a popular prophet
46. 1:57he was in grievous grievous days
47. 2:01in the history of israel
48. 2:04and he was not appreciated for his
49. 2:06labors
50. 2:07so he says in verse 14 cursed be the day
51. 2:11wherein
52. 2:13i was born
53. 2:16let not the day wherein my mother bear
54. 2:18me be blessed
55. 2:20cursed
56. 2:21be the man who brought tidings to my
57. 2:23father
58. 2:25saying a man child is born
59. 2:27unto thee
60. 2:28making him making my father
61. 2:31very
62. 2:32glad
63. 2:34and
64. 2:35in our
65. 2:36texts
66. 2:37here
67. 2:39we're dealing with the writings
68. 2:41of two men of god
69. 2:44one a new testament apostle to the
70. 2:46gentiles
71. 2:48and the other
72. 2:50jeremiah being
73. 2:52a
74. 2:53one of a few but an epitome
75. 2:56of some of the most famous
76. 2:59prophets
77. 3:00uh whose writings and impact cast the
78. 3:04longest
79. 3:06shadow
80. 3:07and
81. 3:08though jeremiah was not appreciated in
82. 3:12the day wherein he
83. 3:14ministered
84. 3:16the shadow again that he cast
85. 3:19over
86. 3:20israel in the fulfillment of the
87. 3:21prophecies that he gave
88. 3:24and the life that he lived and the
89. 3:25repercussions of those fulfilled
90. 3:27prophecies
91. 3:30have been amazing he is much talked
92. 3:32about
93. 3:34um in rabbinic circles
94. 3:38to this day
95. 3:40and not always with pleasure there are
96. 3:43still some segments of jewish society
97. 3:47today of course there's strong elements
98. 3:49of jewish society
99. 3:51that are
100. 3:53agnostic at best and atheistic
101. 3:56at worst and in jeremiah's day they felt
102. 3:59there were people that thought he was a
103. 4:00traitor
104. 4:02an absolute
105. 4:04traitor
106. 4:05and it was a case almost like why don't
107. 4:07you be like isaiah
108. 4:09when we were surrounded by the assyrians
109. 4:12isaiah was helping hezekiah and
110. 4:14prophesying that god would come on the
111. 4:16scene and deliver now we are being
112. 4:18surrounded by
113. 4:19nebuchadnezzar
114. 4:21and the chaldeans
115. 4:22and and you're doing just the opposite
116. 4:24why don't you prophesy our way out of
117. 4:26this like isaiah did instead you're
118. 4:29screaming gloom and doom and
119. 4:31pain and sorrow and loss and suffering
120. 4:33and destruction
121. 4:35and telling us to surrender and he did
122. 4:38he told him look if you surrender
123. 4:40he will go easy with you and i'm telling
124. 4:42you this in the name of the lord so
125. 4:44there were people in jeremiah's day that
126. 4:45felt he was a traitor
127. 4:48literally a traitor and there are
128. 4:50segments of
129. 4:51judaism today that feel the same about
130. 4:54jeremiah that he was that he was a
131. 4:55traitor
132. 4:57but the lessons of history and his
133. 4:59fulfilled prophecies are lost on them as
134. 5:01they were lost on people of his day
135. 5:04it's just a case
136. 5:06if people don't want to believe
137. 5:08moses and the prophets
138. 5:11they won't believe if one rise from the
139. 5:13dead
140. 5:14even if his name is jesus christ if they
141. 5:16don't want to believe they won't believe
142. 5:18nothing can make people believe
143. 5:21but to us who do believe he is precious
144. 5:23praise god
145. 5:25and so we thank god for that
146. 5:27so
147. 5:28we
148. 5:29we
149. 5:30we look at his day then we look at
150. 5:32paul's day
151. 5:33it was a different era a different time
152. 5:36a different ministry
153. 5:38he is being used to call out a people
154. 5:40for
155. 5:41the namesake of the lord
156. 5:43from in the main the gentile world
157. 5:48and he was hated for that
158. 5:51and there there were segments of judaism
159. 5:54even christian judaism
160. 5:56that did not appreciate his labors
161. 5:58amongst the gentiles they were judaizers
162. 6:01they wanted to bring everybody under the
163. 6:02bondage of
164. 6:04the ceremonialism
165. 6:07of the law there was nothing wrong with
166. 6:08the moral aspects of the law but the
167. 6:10ceremonial aspects were all fulfilled in
168. 6:12jesus christ
169. 6:15such as circumcision now there is a
170. 6:17circumcision made without hands
171. 6:19buried with him in baptism colossians 2.
172. 6:23so the gentiles
173. 6:25were fulfilling the righteousness of the
174. 6:27law
175. 6:27of circumcision when they were baptized
176. 6:30in jesus name
177. 6:32and
178. 6:32and so
179. 6:34there are also segments of of uh judaism
180. 6:37today
181. 6:38that abhor the writings
182. 6:41of the apostle paul
183. 6:43not only because he foretold
184. 6:46swift destruction that was coming upon
185. 6:48them and did
186. 6:49in his lifetime
187. 6:52it looks like we think possibly in his
188. 6:54lifetime he might have already been dead
189. 6:57uh when the romans destroyed the temple
190. 7:00in jerusalem and on and on
191. 7:02and
192. 7:03in his dealings with him so we're
193. 7:05dealing with two men
194. 7:07that
195. 7:08were not always appreciated for
196. 7:12their
197. 7:13labors
198. 7:14and um as such
199. 7:18if you if you look at their life and you
200. 7:20were to put everything in their life
201. 7:23uh
202. 7:24naturally speaking and spiritually
203. 7:26speaking
204. 7:27spiritually speaking it was a win-win
205. 7:30column
206. 7:31they went from faith to faith victory to
207. 7:33victory
208. 7:35amen in a sense glory to glory
209. 7:38but the journeys in between faith to
210. 7:40faith and from this victory to that
211. 7:42victory and from this glory to that
212. 7:44glory in between
213. 7:45there was a lot of pain
214. 7:47a lot of suffering
215. 7:49a lot of rejection
216. 7:51and so if you were to look at their
217. 7:52lives
218. 7:54not in the spiritual column but just in
219. 7:56the life
220. 7:57column everything included
221. 8:00it seemed to be a lot of wins and a lot
222. 8:02of losses
223. 8:04they would win with this person and be
224. 8:06hated by that person
225. 8:08they would they would go forward in this
226. 8:11arena but then maybe end up in prison in
227. 8:13the next arena
228. 8:15now spiritually
229. 8:17their their life was to be looked at
230. 8:19differently
231. 8:20it's like james and john they kind of
232. 8:22themselves
233. 8:23they they thanked god that god counted
234. 8:25them worthy to be
235. 8:27persecuted and suffer beatings for the
236. 8:29name of jesus they realized and saw this
237. 8:32is a win
238. 8:34that we are allowed to suffer for the
239. 8:36name of jesus
240. 8:37but their bodies still hurt and their
241. 8:40bodies still bled
242. 8:42and it's not like they just couldn't
243. 8:45wait for the next beating
244. 8:47this is this is this is the
245. 8:50drama and trauma
246. 8:52of walking with god in in in the midst
247. 8:56of a crooked and perverse generation
248. 8:59we strive to go forth with our eyes on
249. 9:02that which is invisible
250. 9:04moses survived as seeing he him who was
251. 9:08invisible
252. 9:10and so
253. 9:12looking around about us sometimes in the
254. 9:14physical sense there are disappointments
255. 9:18and problems again dramas and traumas
256. 9:22and yet spiritually
257. 9:25the same person can be going faith to
258. 9:27faith victory to victory glory to glory
259. 9:30the problem is
260. 9:32we are human
261. 9:34and so we do feel it all
262. 9:37we feel both the spiritual victories
263. 9:40and the physical
264. 9:42traumas
265. 9:43and
266. 9:44that's why
267. 9:45thank god
268. 9:47when the trumpet sounds
269. 9:49the corruption will put on incorruption
270. 9:52and the mortality will put on
271. 9:54immortality
272. 9:56and we will see
273. 9:58perfectly and feel perfectly and we will
274. 10:01be as
275. 10:02he is and one of the things
276. 10:06about
277. 10:07jesus that was so beautiful that we must
278. 10:10strive
279. 10:11to emulate
280. 10:13is the prophecy and isaiah
281. 10:15spoke of him that who is as blind as my
282. 10:18servant and his death as
283. 10:21basically my servant
284. 10:23so jesus was the man that that opened
285. 10:26the blinded eyes jesus was the man that
286. 10:28unstopped deaf ears
287. 10:30and yet he said there's nobody as
288. 10:32blessed as him
289. 10:34who's who's blinder than he is
290. 10:37who's more deaf
291. 10:38than he is
292. 10:41now how can he be deaf how can he be
293. 10:43blind he's the healer of blindness and
294. 10:45deafness
295. 10:47because
296. 10:48it was what he was blind to
297. 10:51it was what he was deaf too seeing many
298. 10:54things he observed us not hearing many
299. 10:55things he he didn't basically pay
300. 10:57attention
301. 10:58there are some things he absolutely
302. 11:01tuned out
303. 11:04and he was blind to he was deaf too he
304. 11:06could see him
305. 11:08but he said no that's not what i'm
306. 11:09looking at my eyes are kept on this
307. 11:12he knew he was supposed to go to calvary
308. 11:14he knew he would be crucified
309. 11:16and so his mind was set and he was
310. 11:18informing his disciples and and so simon
311. 11:21peter interjected far be it from the
312. 11:23lord we will rise up and we will fight
313. 11:25for you
314. 11:28that's not what he
315. 11:30wants to hear that's not what he has to
316. 11:32hear
317. 11:33and he says get behind me satan you're
318. 11:35an offense unto me
319. 11:37don't block my vision
320. 11:39i'm not listening to what you've got to
321. 11:40say that's from the devil
322. 11:43i am supposed
323. 11:45to be crucified buried and rise again
324. 11:47the third day that's my goal
325. 11:51so i'm blind and i'm deaf to anything
326. 11:53that would try to
327. 11:55turn me aside
328. 11:57from
329. 11:58that
330. 11:59like david said i
331. 12:01hate the works of them that turn aside i
332. 12:03will not be turned aside
333. 12:05well simon peter was meaning well
334. 12:08but he was very much in the flesh that
335. 12:11day
336. 12:12and was soundly soundly rebuked
337. 12:15and said all that
338. 12:18to say this
339. 12:20that in this
340. 12:21life
341. 12:23um
342. 12:24there are
343. 12:26many successes and there are many
344. 12:28failures
345. 12:29there are many pluses and there are many
346. 12:31negatives there are many good days
347. 12:33and several bad days and there's many
348. 12:36pleasant situations and unpleasant
349. 12:38situations
350. 12:39and so the wind lost column
351. 12:42in the life of a child of god
352. 12:45is um
353. 12:46is is is quite the deal
354. 12:49and
355. 12:50and i cannot tell you
356. 12:53that that means that
357. 12:55every um
358. 12:58in the spiritual column we are always
359. 13:00winners
360. 13:02because if you are a
361. 13:04100 winner every time in every situation
362. 13:06every trial trauma in the spiritual
363. 13:09department i'll hand you the mic and i
364. 13:10know you have a lot that you could tell
365. 13:12us
366. 13:15but
367. 13:16uh sometimes the win-loss column
368. 13:18falls in that department as well
369. 13:21and then
370. 13:22we've all seen the time and that's
371. 13:24really what i want to talk about in in
372. 13:26the main in the main dabbling in both
373. 13:28sides
374. 13:29is that there are situations in life
375. 13:33where it looks like we really won
376. 13:36um materially but we actually
377. 13:39that was a loser
378. 13:41or
379. 13:42even times when it looked like we really
380. 13:44lost
381. 13:45in the material end of life but we ended
382. 13:48up being a winner
383. 13:50so
384. 13:51with all of these things
385. 13:54swirling around about us the physical
386. 13:57the spiritual
387. 13:59the emotional
388. 14:01the mental
389. 14:04the material
390. 14:05financial
391. 14:09familial situations
392. 14:11friendship situations
393. 14:14co-worker situations
394. 14:16just so many situations in life that
395. 14:19face us ongoing
396. 14:20daily
397. 14:22and and it can be quite a jumble this is
398. 14:24why
399. 14:26uh the wine becomes mixed in the book of
400. 14:28revelation it speaks of the wine
401. 14:31is mixed so
402. 14:33so we're drinking from cups that can be
403. 14:35pretty uh
404. 14:36confusing sometimes
405. 14:39this is why we have to walk with god
406. 14:41take him by the hand surrender and say
407. 14:43jesus whether i understand what's going
408. 14:45on or not i'm walking with you
409. 14:48whether i'm seeing everything just right
410. 14:50i'm walking with you whether i'm hearing
411. 14:52everything i'm walking with you be my
412. 14:54guide be my counselor be my friend and
413. 14:57whatever you do don't let go of me
414. 14:59[Applause]
415. 15:01don't let go of me
416. 15:03amen
417. 15:04in february 23rd
418. 15:081836
419. 15:10a battle began
420. 15:13some say there were 800 and excuse me
421. 15:15182
422. 15:16[Music]
423. 15:17a lot of figures kind of squirrely there
424. 15:22182 some say 257
425. 15:26of uh they were not texans but they were
426. 15:28called texians
427. 15:30these were
428. 15:32people that had
429. 15:33garnered out of
430. 15:36other states of the united states of
431. 15:38america
432. 15:39which was very small at that time
433. 15:41and they went to the
434. 15:44mexican province
435. 15:48that it became known as texas
436. 15:51and
437. 15:52so they were there they were basically
438. 15:54squatters
439. 15:56they were allowed to go there
440. 15:57under the auspices of the
441. 16:00mexican government of mexico city
442. 16:03and um
443. 16:05basically they they began
444. 16:09to
445. 16:09rebel and want to take over so
446. 16:12a a
447. 16:14general who also became
448. 16:16the emperor of mexico five or six times
449. 16:20he led an army
450. 16:22of um
451. 16:24many thousands some say six thousand
452. 16:26some say ten thousand there's a lot of
453. 16:27figures thrown out there
454. 16:29but we know the battles from from
455. 16:31february 23rd to march
456. 16:336th
457. 16:34march 6th
458. 16:36and this is in 1836
459. 16:39and so
460. 16:41except for
461. 16:42a man that escaped
462. 16:45um
463. 16:46there was
464. 16:48again from 182 257 texians
465. 16:52that were slain
466. 16:54and some say they of the mexican army
467. 16:57there were 600 slain
468. 16:59others no doubt wanting to really
469. 17:01bolster they say there was 4 thousand
470. 17:04pretty ludicrous
471. 17:05be that as it may
472. 17:07the alamo was a exceedingly sound defeat
473. 17:13for the texians
474. 17:15stephen austin
475. 17:17died there the capital of texas is named
476. 17:19after him
477. 17:21davey crockett
478. 17:22died there it is believed that he died
479. 17:25there
480. 17:27some
481. 17:28speculation on that but i believe he did
482. 17:31many historians believe he did
483. 17:33and uh
484. 17:36william travis died there and
485. 17:39and
486. 17:40jim bowie died there of the famed buoy
487. 17:43knife
488. 17:44fame
489. 17:45and so
490. 17:46so tech the fall of the alamo was big
491. 17:49and it looked like it was the end of the
492. 17:51war
493. 17:53but something happened
494. 17:56when the alamo fell
495. 17:59there were a lot of texans texians at
496. 18:02that time they were called
497. 18:04that were not involved in the war they
498. 18:07they had no problem
499. 18:08with the mexican government they had no
500. 18:10they just let us live let's
501. 18:12but when the alamo fell something
502. 18:13happened
503. 18:14psychologically
504. 18:17and uh
505. 18:18they felt like prisoners should have
506. 18:19been taken rather than massacred etc
507. 18:23and so they rallied to sam houston
508. 18:27and on april 21st
509. 18:30of 1836
510. 18:32a little more than a month later
511. 18:35they met on another battlefield called
512. 18:36san jacinto
513. 18:39and there were enough texians at this
514. 18:41time gathered and the rallying cry was
515. 18:44remember the alamo which is still
516. 18:47uttered today remember
517. 18:49the alamo
518. 18:51and
519. 18:53they actually
520. 18:54would not have probably won the battle
521. 18:56of san jacinto
522. 18:58except
523. 18:59generals under
524. 19:01santa anna kept coming to him
525. 19:04and trying to warn him
526. 19:06duh
527. 19:08these texians are out there let's we
528. 19:10need to rally
529. 19:12but he was in his tent
530. 19:16with his girlfriend
531. 19:18and her name was rose
532. 19:20she liked the color yellow
533. 19:23hence yellow rose of texas
534. 19:25don't you cry for me
535. 19:27that's santa and his girlfriend are
536. 19:29singing about
537. 19:30and he lost the battle
538. 19:33and
539. 19:34so the bottom line one thing leading to
540. 19:36another texas became a nation
541. 19:40texas became a nation before it ever
542. 19:43became a state
543. 19:45and so legally by way of the
544. 19:46constitution of the united states it is
545. 19:48the only state that literally could pull
546. 19:51out california talks about it but
547. 19:53california talks about a lot of stuff
548. 19:56and um but texas could pull out of the
549. 19:59union because it used to be a nation
550. 20:01before it was it wasn't a colony that
551. 20:03became it was a nation
552. 20:05now they'd have trouble doing it but
553. 20:07technically by the constitution they
554. 20:09could
555. 20:11be all that as it may
556. 20:14they lost
557. 20:15a battle
558. 20:18but because they lost a battle something
559. 20:21happened
560. 20:22and they ended up winning
561. 20:24the war
562. 20:26i'm not going to give you
563. 20:28um
564. 20:29the rights or wrongs or goods or bads
565. 20:32we're dealing with human nature that was
566. 20:33fallen and we're not dealing with a
567. 20:34bunch of holy ghost-filled people at all
568. 20:38but that was it they lost the battle but
569. 20:40a rallying cry something happened in the
570. 20:42psyche
571. 20:44of peoples and they stood up and said no
572. 20:46no no no
573. 20:48and so it became a nation under not
574. 20:51texians but
575. 20:53texans
576. 20:54and the first president was sam houston
577. 20:58who later begged them
578. 21:00not to secede from the union and join
579. 21:04the confederate cause sam houston saw
580. 21:06the end
581. 21:07that they would not win and he begged
582. 21:09and he pleaded and then he he resigned
583. 21:12his position when they overrode
584. 21:15his pleas
585. 21:16but
586. 21:17again it was a bad day that turned out
587. 21:20it to be
588. 21:21a profitable day as far as their goals
589. 21:24were concerned
590. 21:25another couple of things very very
591. 21:27quickly
592. 21:28in the fall of 1858 there was a
593. 21:30senatorial race
594. 21:33in the state of illinois
595. 21:37and it had been preceded by a great
596. 21:39series of debates between tall lanky man
597. 21:43named abraham lincoln in a short
598. 21:45stocky man they called the little giant
599. 21:49by the name of stephen a douglas and the
600. 21:51lincoln douglas debates have gone down
601. 21:53in history and they are fascinating
602. 21:57discussions between them two utterly
603. 22:00brilliant
604. 22:02men smooth men and
605. 22:04politicians
606. 22:05and
607. 22:07and so
608. 22:09the common populist did not elect
609. 22:12senators
610. 22:13but
611. 22:14basically the voters
612. 22:16it was neither as far as the populist
613. 22:18was concerned a win or a loss for either
614. 22:20man
615. 22:21and the house chose douglas because of
616. 22:25political expediency
617. 22:28and ultimately what that meant was
618. 22:29abraham lincoln lost the race
619. 22:32as being a senator of illinois in 1858
620. 22:36and
621. 22:38and people were trying to comfort him
622. 22:40and condole him console him
623. 22:42because he had lost the race
624. 22:45and he famously retorted
625. 22:48it was a slip
626. 22:51not a fall
627. 22:56because he knew
628. 22:58i lost this race
629. 23:00but i have a better chance of being
630. 23:02president of the united states because i
631. 23:04lost this
632. 23:06race then if you don't want it and
633. 23:08become senator
634. 23:11he wanted to be senator he ran hard
635. 23:14but when he didn't get it
636. 23:17he realized this will play out better
637. 23:20for the future
638. 23:22and it indeed did
639. 23:24so he lost the battle
640. 23:27but he won the war
641. 23:28and eventually
642. 23:30he won
643. 23:31the great sad tragic american
644. 23:33historically
645. 23:35horrible civil war
646. 23:38so he lost the battle but he won the war
647. 23:41the first battle of the civil war
648. 23:44if you were from the north the very
649. 23:46first battle was called the battle of
650. 23:47bull run
651. 23:48if you were from the south even to this
652. 23:50day like many call it the battle of
653. 23:52manassas
654. 23:54and uh many battles are are that way
655. 23:56there's the northern name of the battle
656. 23:58in the southern name of
657. 24:00the battle but the first battle of bull
658. 24:03run was in
659. 24:05manassas it was fought july 21st
660. 24:09prince william county virginia
661. 24:12and it was just north of the city of
662. 24:13manassas but it's about 25 miles
663. 24:16west southwest of washington dc 25 miles
664. 24:21from
665. 24:22the north's capital
666. 24:24to the shock of everybody in the north
667. 24:27and the surprise of the south
668. 24:30the north lost
669. 24:32the battle
670. 24:34of
671. 24:35bull run
672. 24:37it actually became somewhat of a route
673. 24:40and
674. 24:41at one point the reason they didn't lose
675. 24:44it is because
676. 24:45an unknown man a strange man a strange
677. 24:48enigmatic manic man
678. 24:50very odd man
679. 24:53by the name of thomas jackson stood on a
680. 24:56hill
681. 24:57with his men
682. 24:58and he said we do not retreat and he
683. 25:00stood at the head of him and they fought
684. 25:02and a man that was about to be shot
685. 25:04uttered the most famous line in his life
686. 25:08there stands
687. 25:09jackson like a stone wall
688. 25:12and the rest of his short life
689. 25:15he was called stonewall jackson
690. 25:18but the north
691. 25:19won the battle of bull run
692. 25:22i mean lost it they've north lost the
693. 25:24battle of bull run
694. 25:25and the south want it and the effects
695. 25:29of that first battle were amazing
696. 25:34it
697. 25:35stunned
698. 25:36the north
699. 25:39it shocked them they were so assured of
700. 25:42winning the battle
701. 25:44that
702. 25:44men and women that were not in the army
703. 25:47packed picnic lunches
704. 25:51and they they took their carriages you
705. 25:53know and they spread out their blankets
706. 25:54and they were having big picnics in
707. 25:56parties where they could look down and
708. 25:58see the battle because this was going to
709. 26:00be nice to watch us beat the
710. 26:02confederates
711. 26:03and then when the roads are clogged and
712. 26:06people are screaming and crying trying
713. 26:08to get back on a tiny little road to
714. 26:10washington dc because of the route
715. 26:14the north
716. 26:16it
717. 26:17it blew him away it scared him
718. 26:20it stunned him the south became utterly
719. 26:25unbelievably jubilant
720. 26:28we beat the north
721. 26:31in the first battle
722. 26:34and they were so happy they could they
723. 26:36they were beside themselves with
724. 26:40joy
725. 26:42and so the north lost the battle but the
726. 26:44north won the war
727. 26:46and a big part not it's just a portion
728. 26:49it's just a percentage
729. 26:51but it was an important percentage in
730. 26:53the beginning
731. 26:55because
732. 26:56when they lost the battle of bill run
733. 27:00all of a sudden it was no longer maybe a
734. 27:02game
735. 27:04it was no longer
736. 27:06uh we can we can beat the south with one
737. 27:09hand tied behind our back they found out
738. 27:12no
739. 27:13they beat us in a battle
740. 27:16and it galvanized the
741. 27:18north it sobered them
742. 27:22it made them serious
743. 27:25and they rolled up their sleeves for the
744. 27:27most part
745. 27:28and said okay
746. 27:31then it's on
747. 27:33and we'll go for it then we'll go all
748. 27:35the way
749. 27:37and that's reason they marshaled their
750. 27:39industry they marshaled their troops and
751. 27:42and in its fascinating history all of it
752. 27:45and william tecumseh sherman who was a
753. 27:48teacher in a military academy down in
754. 27:50new orleans before the war he tried to
755. 27:53tell they were so excited about pulling
756. 27:55out succeeding and going to fight the
757. 27:57north and william tecumseh sherman
758. 28:00basically i'm interpolating he said
759. 28:02you'll never win
760. 28:04you don't have the north industry you
761. 28:07don't have the population of the north
762. 28:09you don't have and he started naming all
763. 28:11the things he said you cannot win this
764. 28:12war
765. 28:14and they laughed and they were gallant
766. 28:15and they could they had hurrah and they
767. 28:17would go and they would fight they won a
768. 28:18lot of battles and between robert e lee
769. 28:21and stonewall jackson they put they put
770. 28:23the north on the mat for a while
771. 28:25but
772. 28:26bull run
773. 28:29did something to them
774. 28:31and they rose up and they galvanized
775. 28:34what it did to the south
776. 28:37was
777. 28:38the wind of bull run the wind of
778. 28:40manassas junction
779. 28:42caused them to have
780. 28:45a
781. 28:46false
782. 28:47assurance
783. 28:51they
784. 28:52took that almost as a sign from god
785. 28:56he's on our side
786. 28:58and we can whoop them and then some
787. 29:00other victories they got it in their
788. 29:02head they were unbeatable
789. 29:04and i don't you're not here for a
790. 29:05history lesson but that's why robert e
791. 29:07lee had the hutzpah to go up to
792. 29:09gettysburg
793. 29:10because he thought
794. 29:12i don't think we can be beat
795. 29:15and that changed the war
796. 29:18point being
797. 29:20for the north they lost the battle
798. 29:22but it galvanized them and they won the
799. 29:24war
800. 29:25the alamo
801. 29:26they lost the battle but they won the
802. 29:28war
803. 29:29lincoln lost an election
804. 29:31but he won the war
805. 29:33and so that's what i'm talking about
806. 29:35when losses become victories
807. 29:38is what i want to talk about the next
808. 29:40few minutes while we are here
809. 29:44there are
810. 29:45times in the bible
811. 29:48where losses
812. 29:50were affected upon god's people
813. 29:53one man who suffered a grave series of
814. 29:55losses and there are men that you find i
815. 29:59and others repeatedly bring up because
816. 30:01god put them there for this purpose
817. 30:03that we would go to their
818. 30:05lives repeatedly
819. 30:07to learn many many many many lessons
820. 30:11when it came to a popularity contest
821. 30:13with his brethren joseph lost
822. 30:16he was not the most popular to the point
823. 30:18they threw him in a pit
824. 30:20debating whether to kill him or sell him
825. 30:23while they're debating and eating lunch
826. 30:25ishmaelites fish him out of the pit
827. 30:29unbeknownst to his brethren
828. 30:31they indeed sell him the midianites
829. 30:33midianites
830. 30:34sell him indeed to the egyptians
831. 30:38the egyptians put him on an optional
832. 30:40auction block and he is indeed
833. 30:42sold to a man by the name of potiphar
834. 30:46so far
835. 30:47he is striking out everywhere he turns
836. 30:51you would have to say
837. 30:53if you were to put a mic to his mouth
838. 30:55and a reporter say mr joseph how do you
839. 30:57feel about this
840. 31:01what could he
841. 31:02say uh
842. 31:06the israelites put me on a nice camel
843. 31:10he was just he was he was he was
844. 31:12auctioneered on down
845. 31:14the line
846. 31:15he ends up in potiphar's house there the
847. 31:18accusations fly
848. 31:21he ends up in a prison
849. 31:23then a butler
850. 31:25forgets him after interpreting his dream
851. 31:27correctly
852. 31:29and
853. 31:30battle after battle
854. 31:32after battle
855. 31:34after battle
856. 31:35after battle
857. 31:36is lost
858. 31:38and then in one
859. 31:39signal
860. 31:41day
861. 31:43he is sitting on the second most
862. 31:44powerful throne
863. 31:46in all of egypt
864. 31:49and the rest as we say is history he won
865. 31:52the war
866. 31:54he saved his family from famine
867. 31:56he set the stage
868. 31:59for a host of things that in
869. 32:02the almighty zone purposes he had
870. 32:04planned
871. 32:05but the key was come on joseph don't
872. 32:07give up don't get bitter
873. 32:09don't don't don't don't don't agitate
874. 32:12don't you have to trust me
875. 32:14you have to trust me joseph i know what
876. 32:17i'm doing i'm still god i'm god when
877. 32:20your brethren hates you i'm god when
878. 32:22you're in the pit i'm god when you're in
879. 32:24the prison i'm god when the midianites
880. 32:26ishmaelites and egyptians have you i'm
881. 32:28god
882. 32:30and you just walk with me
883. 32:32and be blind and deaf to all that is
884. 32:34screaming to you
885. 32:36you are a loser dude
886. 32:40and you hang in there baby
887. 32:42and
888. 32:44god knows how to bring you out on top
889. 32:47if your name is jacob
890. 32:49and you look around joseph's gone now
891. 32:51they want to take benjamin simeon's gone
892. 32:53you're in the middle of a famine
893. 32:56and you say all these things are against
894. 32:58me just to keep holding his hand because
895. 33:00they're really not
896. 33:02it looks like you're losing battles
897. 33:03jacob but you're about to win a war for
898. 33:06the salvation of your house
899. 33:08moses when you lose
900. 33:11the battle with the two israelites
901. 33:14fussing at each other and and you stop
902. 33:16them and
903. 33:17and one of them says who made you a
904. 33:19judge in a ruler of us you're going to
905. 33:21kill me like you killed that egyptian
906. 33:23and he spends the next four decades
907. 33:2740 years
908. 33:29you talk about losing a battle he's 40
909. 33:32years
910. 33:33on the backside of some desert
911. 33:35being a shepherd for his father-in-law
912. 33:38a midianite
913. 33:41and yet at the end of that at 80 years
914. 33:43of age
915. 33:45god speaks to him out of a burning bush
916. 33:49and he ultimately through much trial
917. 33:51trauma tears and tribulation
918. 33:53he wins the war
919. 33:55and israel becomes
920. 33:58a victorious powerful nation with the
921. 34:00laws of god
922. 34:02instead of a captivated
923. 34:04nation of slaves
924. 34:06but there were some lost battles before
925. 34:09there was a one war
926. 34:12david loses
927. 34:13situation after situation
928. 34:15now he wins in battles with lions he
929. 34:18wins and battles with bears he wins in
930. 34:20battles with a giant name goliath he
931. 34:22wins against the philistines he wins
932. 34:24against the amorites he wins against he
933. 34:26wins everywhere
934. 34:28but he loses a lot of battles to a man
935. 34:30named saul
936. 34:32he loses a lot he's on the lamb
937. 34:35his wife is taken from him and given to
938. 34:37another he is hunted and he is haunted
939. 34:40and he is hated and he is lied about
940. 34:44literally from dan to
941. 34:46beersheba and
942. 34:49he lost a lot of battles when it came to
943. 34:51the people that meant most to him
944. 34:54to the israelites
945. 34:57that he once was a captain of the host
946. 35:01he
947. 35:02has lost much
948. 35:04when it comes to his nation that he
949. 35:06loved
950. 35:07people that he cared about and was
951. 35:09willing to die for if need be
952. 35:12but
953. 35:13though he lost many of those battles
954. 35:17he won the war
955. 35:19and god fulfilled his promise and plan
956. 35:21and made him
957. 35:24the king first of judah
958. 35:27and seven years later for the last 33
959. 35:29years of his life the king of all israel
960. 35:33and we really could go on and on and on
961. 35:34but let me just we know the story of job
962. 35:37you talk about moving from
963. 35:39from from the land of
964. 35:42planning to loserville
965. 35:44here this man he's upright he fears god
966. 35:48he hates evil
967. 35:50amen he's perfect he's got
968. 35:52seven sons three daughters he's got
969. 35:55seven thousand sheep and 3 000 camels
970. 35:58and 500 yoke of oxen and 500
971. 36:01she asses and he's got a very great
972. 36:03household he's the he's the greatest in
973. 36:06all the east
974. 36:08he's got it all
975. 36:11and then all these battles hit him in
976. 36:13one day
977. 36:18one day
978. 36:21and
979. 36:22and the sheep are gone the camels are
980. 36:23gone
981. 36:25the oxen are gone the shias's are gone
982. 36:27the servants that watched all of them
983. 36:30are all gone save the four that came and
984. 36:32brought in the news
985. 36:34the last one coming
986. 36:37your sons and daughters are dead
987. 36:41we get upset
988. 36:43when we get a bill in the mail
989. 36:46that
990. 36:47we thought we paid or something
991. 36:50this man
992. 36:51there's nobody like him and there's
993. 36:54nobody that
994. 36:56has been hit like him
995. 36:59in all of scriptural and even
996. 37:02historical
997. 37:03this is this is mind-boggling
998. 37:06and
999. 37:07the key is is he's a righteous man i
1000. 37:09mean
1001. 37:10we're not talking about a scallywag
1002. 37:12we're not talking about a haman
1003. 37:14we're not talking about sennecareb the
1004. 37:16king of
1005. 37:17of assyria we're talking about job he's
1006. 37:20perfect he's upright he fears god he
1007. 37:22hates evil
1008. 37:24and you talk about losing battle after
1009. 37:27battle after battle then he loses a
1010. 37:28battle of health
1011. 37:31his wife turns on him
1012. 37:32he loses the battle of friendship
1013. 37:35his friends become his
1014. 37:37most grievous
1015. 37:39hideous
1016. 37:40merciless
1017. 37:42cold
1018. 37:43cunning brutal
1019. 37:46accusers
1020. 37:48and he's reeling
1021. 37:51and then he loses the battle of his
1022. 37:53relationship as it seems to him with god
1023. 37:56because he said i can't even find god
1024. 37:59i go forward and behind and left and
1025. 38:02right
1026. 38:03and he has forsaken me
1027. 38:06and he is the first to utter
1028. 38:09and i believe pastor booker brought this
1029. 38:11out here a while back but he is the
1030. 38:13first to utter what later jeremiah would
1031. 38:15utter curse it be the day of my birth
1032. 38:21cursed be the man that says there's a
1033. 38:23man child born
1034. 38:25jeremiah is basically echoing job's
1035. 38:27phraseology
1036. 38:30and so he lost battle after battle after
1037. 38:32battle after battle after battle after
1038. 38:34battle and then one day in the midst of
1039. 38:36his dilemma there came a whirlwind and
1040. 38:39out of the midst of that whirlwind came
1041. 38:41a voice and said job girl up stand up
1042. 38:44gird yourself like a man and he begins
1043. 38:46to talk to him
1044. 38:49can i tell you something
1045. 38:51don't ever take it lightly when god
1046. 38:54begins to talk to you
1047. 38:57which is why
1048. 38:59forgive me i don't want to come across
1049. 39:01catty or ugly
1050. 39:02but i'll start with this duh
1051. 39:06don't miss church
1052. 39:10i want to hear from god then come to
1053. 39:13church dude
1054. 39:15i personally believe this is my
1055. 39:17conviction and i've yet to be proved
1056. 39:20wrong from anybody that's sensitive and
1057. 39:21i've been told
1058. 39:23i've had this reiterated to me i've made
1059. 39:24this statement many times and i've had
1060. 39:26many many people say that's exactly
1061. 39:29right i am of the personal opinion that
1062. 39:31when a person
1063. 39:33is living for god and if they're halfway
1064. 39:34sensitive and they will just be in
1065. 39:36church and if
1066. 39:38the ministry is forgive this term
1067. 39:41forgive me halfway anointed i'm just
1068. 39:43telling you somewhere in the course of
1069. 39:46that message there is a word for you
1070. 39:49there is a word it may be the whole
1071. 39:51message it may be a phrase it may be a
1072. 39:53verse it may be a story and all of a
1073. 39:55sudden wham you got it that was mine
1074. 39:58that was mine that was mine that's what
1075. 40:00i needed that's what i came for amen
1076. 40:02that was god because he loves you
1077. 40:05[Applause]
1078. 40:06amen that's why
1079. 40:08i love preaching that's why i need
1080. 40:10preaching i need to hear preaching
1081. 40:13amen amen amen amen because i know
1082. 40:15there's a word in there for me somewhere
1083. 40:18somewhere
1084. 40:20i don't care who you're on what your
1085. 40:21name is as brother ben weeks talked
1086. 40:22about you can get stuck in the doldrums
1087. 40:25thank god for a preacher that can pull
1088. 40:27you out
1089. 40:28and get you into the wind again
1090. 40:31hallelujah
1091. 40:33so god spoke to job
1092. 40:36and
1093. 40:37he won the war
1094. 40:39fourteen thousand sheep
1095. 40:41not seven
1096. 40:43six thousand camels not three
1097. 40:46thousand yoke of oxen a thousand shias's
1098. 40:49a very great household
1099. 40:51and guess what he's got seven more sons
1100. 40:53and seven dollars the most beautiful in
1101. 40:55the land
1102. 40:58god knows how to put it back together it
1103. 41:00may seem like
1104. 41:02you're losing battles but hang in there
1105. 41:04hang
1106. 41:07hang in there baby
1107. 41:10because it's there his answers are
1108. 41:13there
1109. 41:15and you will win the war if you just
1110. 41:18hang in there you will win the war
1111. 41:21a couple of painful
1112. 41:23case and points simon peter
1113. 41:27he lost some battles he lost a bad
1114. 41:29battle one day
1115. 41:31and it was the worst day on the world to
1116. 41:33lose a battle
1117. 41:35because his best friend
1118. 41:36he is the one that the light came on and
1119. 41:39he said you're the christ
1120. 41:41the son of the living god you're the
1121. 41:43messiah
1122. 41:46and jesus said flesh and blood didn't
1123. 41:48give you that
1124. 41:50amen the spirit gave you that
1125. 41:53whoa
1126. 41:56and the day they're taking him out to
1127. 41:57crucify him
1128. 41:59he is standing
1129. 42:01around the fire warming himself he's
1130. 42:04trying to be close to the lord
1131. 42:06and follow him but he's following afar
1132. 42:08off he wants
1133. 42:09to follow but not close enough to be
1134. 42:11associated with him
1135. 42:14because he's not popular right now
1136. 42:17so i believe in him but
1137. 42:20i dare not get too close
1138. 42:22and so he's in the vicinity and he's
1139. 42:24standing around the fire and somebody
1140. 42:25says hey
1141. 42:27you followed him
1142. 42:29i know you
1143. 42:32i don't know what you're talking about
1144. 42:35i don't know him
1145. 42:38after a while somebody else says
1146. 42:40no no no no no no
1147. 42:43you were with him you're part of that
1148. 42:45disciple crew you were follower of him
1149. 42:48i told you i don't know what you're
1150. 42:50talking about
1151. 42:51and he continues to warm himself by the
1152. 42:53fire
1153. 42:56and then someone else a third time says
1154. 42:58no your speech betrays you you're a
1155. 43:00galilean you're one of his followers and
1156. 43:02now that galilean tongue begins to form
1157. 43:06curse words
1158. 43:07and i don't know what the expletives
1159. 43:10were that he used
1160. 43:12to deny jesus but they came rolling out
1161. 43:15of his mouth and that old sailor slash
1162. 43:18fisherman nature that jesus found one
1163. 43:22day that couldn't catch a fish all night
1164. 43:24long amen now begin to curse and swear
1165. 43:28and say i said i don't know him
1166. 43:32and that was cut off by the sound of a
1167. 43:34rooster crowing
1168. 43:40and nobody's even looking at him anyway
1169. 43:46they ain't listen to him cuss
1170. 43:50they're looking at the man over his
1171. 43:51shoulder that is
1172. 43:53his visage is marred more than any other
1173. 43:57his hair is ripped from his face his
1174. 43:59crown of thorns is beating to his brow
1175. 44:01his back looks like a plowed field his
1176. 44:03visage is marred more than any other and
1177. 44:05he ain't even been taken to the cross
1178. 44:07yet
1179. 44:09and he's standing there
1180. 44:11and the rooster's crow is going off in
1181. 44:14both their ears as they stare at each
1182. 44:16other
1183. 44:19and you talk about losing a battle
1184. 44:25you talk about simon peter
1185. 44:31can you imagine that moment
1186. 44:33listen to me
1187. 44:36he's utterly
1188. 44:38absolutely in as far as he's concerned
1189. 44:40at that moment
1190. 44:42eternally
1191. 44:43shattered
1192. 44:46it's over
1193. 44:48he drags his wretched carcass
1194. 44:52off into the hills of hopelessness
1195. 44:59because he lost
1196. 45:01the biggest battle of his life
1197. 45:04and failed miserably
1198. 45:06musicians come
1199. 45:10and
1200. 45:13he's in a house
1201. 45:16with other losers
1202. 45:21and all of a sudden a wild-eyed woman
1203. 45:23comes running in and says
1204. 45:25he's alive i saw him
1205. 45:28and he said go tell the disciples and
1206. 45:31peter that i'm alive
1207. 45:35and for the first time a little spark of
1208. 45:37one of the most precious commodities
1209. 45:39you'll ever find in this earth begin to
1210. 45:41crawl up the canals of his heart
1211. 45:44it's called hope
1212. 45:47he was hopeless
1213. 45:49can i
1214. 45:50simply tell you as we stand that he
1215. 45:53he won the war
1216. 45:56and on the day of pentecost he said
1217. 45:57repent and be baptized every one of you
1218. 46:00in the name of jesus christ for the
1219. 46:02mission of sins and you shall receive
1220. 46:04the gift of the holy ghost
1221. 46:07and then
1222. 46:09i'll save this for another day
1223. 46:13you want to talk about losing a battle
1224. 46:16you want to talk about a bad sad day
1225. 46:21the battle the day that jesus is hanging
1226. 46:24on a tree
1227. 46:26the holy one no doubt naked
1228. 46:29his only clothing is blood
1229. 46:33he's in agony
1230. 46:35he's in pain
1231. 46:37people are passing by and mocking and
1232. 46:40hey boy you saved others save yourself
1233. 46:46loserville
1234. 46:48but the apostle said if the princes of
1235. 46:51this world
1236. 46:52had known what they were doing they
1237. 46:55would have never crucified
1238. 46:57because they want to battle bubba but
1239. 46:59you talk about losing the war of all war
1240. 47:05[Applause]
1241. 47:06and that's why we're here today because
1242. 47:08he won the war
1243. 47:10and that's why we're here today we may
1244. 47:12have won and we have lost lots of
1245. 47:15battles but we're here today
1246. 47:18and the only battle that is a total
1247. 47:20failure is one you don't lose from i
1248. 47:22mean you don't learn from if you learn
1249. 47:24something from it it's not a total bad
1250. 47:27failure
1251. 47:28okay god
1252. 47:30i'm taking you by the hand and i'm
1253. 47:31walking with you
1254. 47:33and we're going to see you in glory
1255. 47:35because i'm i'm going to parlay this by
1256. 47:37your grace into being something better
1257. 47:40than we ever been before can everybody
1258. 47:42say amen
1259. 47:44anybody kind of thankful for battles
1260. 47:46let's lift our hands and love him oh we
1261. 47:49love you
1262. 47:51[Music]