Sunday Service - 2025-11-02

Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

Thank you for joining us today.

So let's turn to Hebrews chapter 11 and

This is a favorite chapter to me, you know, I always say that about almost every scripture so I just love it all don't you?

How can you choose but I love Hebrews 11?

And in many theological circles, it's referred to as the Hall of Faith for a reason

so as you're turning to that we're gonna pray and

Thank the Lord for using his word to do amazing things in our hearts and minds

So father God, we asked you to open up your scripture today so that we would be enlightened

Illuminated Lord God and we would see this world and our purpose in the world

From your perspective not our old natural perspective

But from yours so that we can rise up and be everything that we're meant to be and we ask this in Jesus name

Amen. So this is the Hall of Faith. We're only going through three verses today

Okay, because there's a lot in this chapter. It's gonna take a few weeks to get through

But in particular the first three verses this week

We're looking at and it's really about faith the Hall of Faith now

Obviously, it's a play on the words Hall of Fame

Okay, and the Hall of Fame of course is where

amazing athletes that are legendary in their record setting their

Accomplishments and the things that they've done are

Entered inducted into the Hall of Fame because it's kind of like recognizing there's never gonna be another one like that

well, there might be but they still change the course of whether it be athletics a

sport or music right the country Hall of Fame the rock and roll Hall of Fame and so these are people that are

Were trend setters they were unique and powerful and in the way they came out with their music and their

sports and they change really the direction in many cases of

Our culture and so they're inducted into the Hall of Fame

But here we're going to be reading about the Hall of Faith

Okay, and and these are people that exhibited such tremendous faith and at a time by the way that they weren't

Temples of the Holy Spirit we are we are new creations

In fact Hebrews 11 is going to talk about that later on not today

But it's going to talk about how they never received the promises that we have

Received to think about that

So the faith that they exhibited in the natural we can exhibit that kind of faith in the spirit

Because we are temples of the Holy Spirit

But so this is the Hall of Faith and I'm excited because the stories are just tremendous

But as I was thinking about this, I have a Hall of Famer living in my home

Okay, maybe you don't know this

But my wife Jill scored a thousand points in her high school basketball career. So now she's saying

And and I told you before she hates that kind of spotlights are right now

She's mad at me for even bringing it up, but that's what's even more fun about it, right?

And her number 32 was retired at her high school. So she was something

And what's cool also is that her sister Debbie was also her number was also retired because she scored a

Thousand points in her high school career. So that's pretty amazing. Okay, I haven't scored one point

So that's pretty amazing

But so this is this is but most of all what I really appreciate about my wife is that to me

She is in the Hall of Faith. I

Really I mean because of her faith

she dragged me and

Zach and Jesse into faith kicking and screaming because she exhibited faith in the Lord

She inspired me like how can you believe all this stuff? And before you knew it I was all in I was like, come on

Jill we're going in right because she exhibited that that faith that I just

So admired something so different about her because she had faith in God

And that's what this is about the Hall of Faith and you know faith is really I love the topic of faith

because

It's more complicated than you think. Okay, first of all

Faith is an unnatural thing to mankind

Did you know that like in other words?

We were born in the image of God to have faith to have the capacity

To believe something without actually seeing it right because people do that every day of the week

they believe something that they haven't yet seen right and

Unfortunately, most of the time they're believing things that are false, but they're still believing things, right?

In fact in Romans chapter 12 verse 3 just after one of my other favorite verses in the Bible

But Paul writes for I say through the grace given to me to everyone who is among you

Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think

Soberly as God has dealt to each one and that Greek word

Acostas actually means to each and everyone a measure of faith

In other words, the Lord has given everyone a metron of faith with the capacity

To believe in him

Otherwise we would be leaving that God

Created people for perdition in other words damn like he created people saying yeah

They don't have the capacity to believe in me and and we're not Calvinists here

I love many Calvinists, but we're not we're not

Predestination in that manner now, we do believe that the Lord has always foreknown right and we foreknew

He predestined who he predestined he called who he called he also justified who he justified he glorified

But it's because he foreknew

Everything so he always knows who's gonna come to him, but he doesn't create someone for hell

I mean that would be like how would he create someone made in his image with the destination of hell?

I just that's not my guy. I can't believe that right and

So anyway, we're not gonna get into you know more Armenianism and Calvinism today, but that's the idea. Everyone has the capacity

To believe something they haven't seen and that's the first thing about faith is it's natural. It's organic

It's in our DNA with the capacity to believe

Aren't you glad of that because well, you know you can look at anyone in your family or someone else who doesn't believe you're like

Why don't they believe but they have the capacity?

Because people believe all the time and things they haven't seen when you think about it even Adam and Eve in the garden

They believe Satan's words over God's words and that's where the whole downfall came, right?

So people have the capacity because it's in our DNA with the capacity to believe

the second thing is

Faith is a spiritual gift

When you come to Christ you actually receive a spiritual gift in fact in first Corinthians chapter 12 verse 9

The third gift mentioned remember its wisdom knowledge and then what?

Faith it's a spiritual gift, you know, it's a faith that isn't from us

It's from above when you come and you believe in Christ suddenly you're filled with faith that you didn't naturally have

Because it's an infusion of his faith

That's something I was attracted to Jill about because she had a faith that defied

logical natural conclusions

But she just believed and guess what her faith has been proven again and again and again, right and mine too

You know, and so this is the idea that it's a spiritual gift, you know

It's it's such a great thing that we don't have to rely on our original faith

Because actually in Timothy it says when we are faithless he is faithful

Because he will never deny himself. So his faith comes to the rescue when your faith is

Giving out you could just say Lord, you know, I believe but help my unbelief

Give me more give me more faith because I am struggling here. It is a spiritual gift from God. Amen and

That's why Paul also wrote in Romans

117

He said for in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith

To faith as it is written that just shall live my faith

You know, there's always more faith to be had our natural faith connects with Christ's faith and bam

We are even fortified with faith that we never had in above ourselves

But the last thing about faith is that it's something that can be increased

Or strengthened or grown. Isn't that awesome? I mean you can have more faith faith doesn't need to stop you can keep

Compounding your faith. In fact when Jesus was talking to his disciples and he was saying to them

That you need to forgive again and again and again and again and they're like, huh, you know Lord increase our faith

You know like you know, you could just imagine them scratching their head saying how can we forgive people we're so fed up with

And then they said Lord, please increase our faith

And so the Lord said if you have faith as a mustard seed

You can say to this mulberry tree be pulled out by its roots and planted in the sea and it will obey you I

will increase your faith in fact when

Jesus said to Peter that

Satan has asked to sift you as wheat

But I have prayed for you that way you are strengthened when that when you return strengthen your brethren

So there's always more faith. In fact, you know, Christ didn't only pray for Peter's faith in John 17

We don't have it up there, but he prayed for all of our faith not just for these

But for those who will believe i'm praying for them to

Deliver them from the evil one, right?

And so the Lord is going to come to rescue even when your faith is struggling look Lord

I believe but please help how much I don't believe right now

You know, I need more of that belief from you and he will come to the rescue, you know

faith is so

important to be growing in

Because he is a rewarder of it. I love Hebrews 11

6 we're not going to read it today, but if a little foreshadow

But without faith it is impossible to believe

Please him for he who comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a what?

Rewarder a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. So in other words like Lord, I just i'm I have

Some faith for this but Lord i'm coming to you because you will reward me with even more

Faith you're gonna give me more

I I don't know about you, but I need more faith all the time

Even though I believe I know the Lord is it at the seeth right hand of the father

I know I am the temple the Holy Spirit. You can't prove me anything else. I've seen it too many times

But sometimes there's something that like oh man, I really

Lord, you know in fact right now a friend of mine is going into surgery. He has cancer riddled through a spinal column

And uh has the potential for being a paraplegic and i'm like Lord, you know

I need more faith right now when i'm praying for this guy. I need

Your faith for this Lord, and I just want to believe

Beyond a shadow of that you could do all things and please do this, right?

Sometimes we just need more faith. Sometimes when i'm praying for someone I could sense somebody else has more faith for it

Why don't you lay hands on this person and you pray because i'm struggling right now, you know

We can struggle sometimes in particular things

But you know pray for and he will

Answer that faith, you know, you know faith. Another thing is that I I like to call it the conduit to heaven

It's it's the conduit to the kingdom of God because we receive everything

Through faith don't we everything we get from God is through faith. You know what I mean by a conduit

It's like, you know, they run electric cables through there, you know

So that it gets to where it needs to go without getting frayed. Okay, or piping

You're awful glad you have pipes in your house because they're a conduit for the water if you didn't your house would be a

Swamp, right you need conduits

Well, we receive from God through our faith

We even received salvation

Through our faith. Ephesians 2 8 said it is by grace. You have been saved through

Faith you've received it through faith. It's a conduit

And that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. So really we need more faith

To receive from God. We need a big faith, you know

Because faith is the conduit to can do it. Does that make sense?

I don't know the Lord gave me that this morning. I'm not sure if it was from him or from my own

Delirious mind but hey by the way, you look beautiful today an extra hour sleep really suits you

You look bright eyed and bushy tailed whatever that's supposed to mean

But you do you look you look alive. Amen, but we always look good. Don't we we look good

We smell good. We look like Christ. We smell like Christ, right?

Amen, but so this we we need to receive from God through that conduit of faith the conduit to can do it, right?

The one final thing about faith is by faith. We overcome

Like you can't overcome this world with with a weak faith

We need a strong faith. I love what John says in first John 5

4 and 5 for whatever is born of God

Overcomes the world and this is the victory that has overcome the world our faith

Who is he who overcomes the world just in case you didn't get it in the first verse?

But he who believes that Jesus is the son of God we overcome

By faith, so we need more and more and more faith. Amen

So as we read these first three verses

We're going to really hone in on this idea of faith because all of these people that

The author is going to write about inspired by the Holy Spirit are people that exhibited

supernatural faith

Even though they still were not new creations as we are. So anyway, let's let's read these three verses

Verse one now faith is the substance of things hoped for

the evidence of things

Not seen

for by the elders

obtained a good testimony

And verse three by faith. We understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God

So that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible

And we're going to stop there

Now we're not going to spend a lot of time on verse three

Because you know that's apologetics you could spend

A sermon or ten sermons on but I love apologetics

And I love people who really are good at it and i'm not so good at apology

I can't remember facts and so forth about apologetics

But I love it when I see someone who just knows stuff right off the top of my head

And then how the shells get up on the mountain if there wasn't a flood and all these things is pop pop pop

You know and they could just defy and I was actually brought into faith through hearing this great speaker who knew apologetics

And I was just so because I had a logical mind and when I heard him sharing all these things that were like wow, really?

That's amazing. That's amazing. There's evidence everywhere. Romans one even tells us that God created all things

And Christ holds it all together. He is the word of God

So when the word of God was spoken, that's him

And just through the word

Everything was created. That's just amazing, isn't it? And he created it all so but again

We're not going to spend much time on that. We're going to really

focus more on that verse one

and

again

Now faith is the substance of things

Hoped for now your version might say

The confidence how many people say confidence anybody couple there assurance?

A couple more. Okay

Any others you could just yell it out if you want

Evidence, yeah, and there's enough. Thank you. And there's another word of evidence shortly after that

So really it's like it's you know, it's but the word we had dissect the word substance

It's really like the word foundation. In fact, I have the word substance up there

Thanks, nicole. You're doing a great job

Hoopastus

Okay

And it means confidence power assurance

And but when you look at it, it's two words hupa, which means under and histemi, which actually means to put or support

So the whole idea is is faith is the thing that we put under to support our lives

And of course, we're built on the chief cornerstone. Jesus Christ, right?

But it's the foundation like and we see that it's a setting or placing

a thing under

substructure foundation that which has firm

Foundation, you know Christ is my firm foundation

The rock on which I stand

I better stop there because I didn't practice with that. But you know

Yeah, thank you

Yes

Let's move on. It's gonna get awkward

But but it really is you know, faith is that basis. In fact, I have a little picture there. Faith is

The foundation, isn't it? It's what is like it's the structure and did you ever notice the deeper the foundation?

Is built

And the wider the thicker

The taller you can build

The more you could the heavier you can build, you know

I think of those skyscrapers in manhattan built on a granite island

Don't you ever wonder like how does that island hold all of that?

Wait, like how isn't it just sinking into the rivers that surround it? You know, it's amazing really

But if you ever see those buildings are hammered in about like five or more stories down

Maybe what is it 50 or 100 feet? Some of you might know but they just go deep into the granite and that's the

Foundation right for this super tall building, right?

But really our faith is the substructure the substance of what we can build upon

And then we see the word

right

Substance of things what hoped for and let's look at this word hoped

Alpedo, okay, and it's a verb form of alpis, which is expectation

evidence

reproof

A proof that by which a thing is proven or tested, you know

And so hope is what we are actually building, you know without a foundation of faith. We don't even know what to hope for

Because hope is a is an expectation. It's not just a wish, you know

Sometimes, you know, you know, I've often said, you know, I hope I win the lottery, but I don't even play

So that's an impossibility

But a lot of times we say I hope and it's this like minuscule chance like like

What are you hoping for that for? You know, it's not really likely but we use the word hope for really wish

Okay

A wish is like a flimsy maybe might happen might not but an expectation is no no i'm building my

Expectations on who I know God is

Like I know what he's like

so I can expect these results from what he has

Demonstrated to me who he is and as we go through hebrews 11, we're gonna see people that took great chances

That went that went all the way in what they believed who God is

They invested all of their their faith in a foundation of the character of God

And did things that were just outrageously amazing

Because they knew how deep

thick and wide

Their foundation in God was and I think we can do the same thing. We can have that

Expectation on who God is amen

You know

This idea of foundation

Um, I have a barn outside my house

And i'm gonna mention it to you before but it was there when I bought the house. I have a very old house

It's like a one-room school house

That they kept adding to so it's kind of weird, you know and some ceilings

I almost have almost have to duck not really i'm lying

I I am lying there. I do not have to duck but some of you would have to duck

If you went in there John paul, you might have to duck

All right, but you know, it's it's it's an interesting house, right?

but the barn is even more interesting because

When you go in there, there's literally holes in the concrete flooring where ground hogs

Just like had their had a circus underneath there and they were living there for years, right?

So when you look outside, you see the walls are buckling and buckling and and so

I brought in uh, this mason friend of mine. I said, you know, so, uh, what can I do with this?

Knock it down

Like you're not going to build anything on this foundation, right because it's been chewed away at it has tunnels

They actually ate through the concrete. So there's holes in the concrete

You're not doing anything with this barn. You got to rip it down and rebuild and have a garage

It's close to being like that too, but that's another story

But so the idea is that the foundation is not strong enough to hold anything else

You know and a lot of people who don't have a firm foundation in the character and nature of God

They're trying to build lives

That that are hopeful

But you can't

You have to have faith to have hope you really do faith comes first then you can have a life

of hope

Do you know what I mean? Because how can you expect to have a hopeful life?

If you don't even have a firm foundation of faith

in God, I remember one time this

Nice lady, she was a strong believer and someone, you know asked, you know

can you go up and pray with her seven issues with her son and went up there and

He was uh, he used to be at liberty university. He might have graduated right?

But somewhere along the line, he became a muslim

Okay

And so he left the faith

And then while he was working at a job, he he threw a hammer at a co-worker

And a few other things and and so now he might be facing charges, right?

And so she said could you pray that the judge has leniency on him?

And i'm like

I don't know. Is that something that God wants? Yeah. I mean he's left the faith. Maybe God wants this

In his life as like a disciplinary

tactic to draw him back like I don't know I said i'll pray

But i'll just pray generally that you know

The Lord shows him grace in many areas, you know, so we just prayed

and

Because like how do you pray for something like that because his life already has a foundation that is broken apart

By the groundhogs of this world, right?

By the enemy has just already wreaked havoc on his foundation and his house is like a leaning tower of pisa

It's just it's it can't stand

So i'm thinking how do you pray into something that's already collapsed, you know, and so, you know

And so many issues are like that because people

Say yeah, I have this issue and they're going on and they want you to pray, right?

About a good outcome and you're thinking I don't know if there's going to be one

until you

Fall on your knees and surrender to the Lord. Jesus like, you know, how are you going to have a good outcome?

It's it's I hate to say it's kind of a hopeless life

Without faith in God and that's what this is saying, you know

That faith is the substance of things that we can hope for

And then the evidence the evidence of things

not seen

You know and so that's the whole idea now. Hope is really like it's it's an expectation

I talked to you about that and what do we expect in our lives? I saw this quote

I was watching a commercial and it was the coolest quote i'm like that's noteworthy, right?

And the quote was whether you think you can or think you can't you're right

Did you ever see that commercial i'm like wow, that's that's so simple and yet so profound

So I looked it up and it was henry ford who said that you have that slide of henry ford

and everyone knows who henry ford every ford driving around is uh

the something that he

That uh all started with what a thunderbird or whatever. Some of you know the first

Model t. Thank you. Thank devin knew that let's give

That

I have a feeling not but that's okay

But you know right, I mean he he was revolutionary he transformed innovation in this country and around the world

Making affordable things with an assembly line. I mean it was so innovative, you know

I didn't get a chance to look into his faith

But maybe you know but just that idea of whether you think you kind of think you can't

You're right to me says so much because you know the verse that as a man thinks so is he like what are we?

Expecting there's even people that are unsaved with more confidence than a believer

And they're everywhere

They have confidence

In their earthly ability. Why don't we have confidence in our heavenly ability?

Right believing that anything he wants me to have I am claiming it because I will have it

Right because we have supernatural gifts from above

Things that we didn't have when we were born or when we were living a life until we gave our lives to Christ suddenly bam

We are like we are hyper

Infused with this spiritual gift from above his power

His might his authority that's what we have been equipped with we should certainly have more confidence

In God than they do in themselves

And yet you see people taking in this world so many risks in their own

abilities

You know, they're they're gambling on their own

abilities I heard this podcast this morning about about how gambling is so crazy now in sports and the recent

You know thing that happened and you know, i've never been in the gamble and I I just lose five bucks

And I just can't get over it. So that's not that's not me. Maybe you have a

Thicker skin for that. I don't like losing money on a cheap thrill. That wasn't that much fun to begin with

but I I understand I went to a

College with a a friend who was always, you know losing money somehow. He didn't get it

This isn't cut out for me gambling on you know, and he knew sports and he bet on sports and just kept losing

I don't get it. But anyway, and he ended up dropping. He's brighter than all of us

Smarter guy than every one of us

And he ends up

Leaving college penn state main campus earlier than any of us. He never graduated. I'm like, how does he was brilliant?

But he just fell into it gambling drinking everything else

But anyway, but like this idea of people will gamble on the ability i've never even done

A fantasy league i'm just telling you i'm like so

I don't understand it and I don't follow it enough

But so but but you hear all these people investing in other people's abilities

Why don't we invest in Christ's ability in us?

Let's put it all down on red or black. What do you want to call it? Let's call it red

All right, we'll put it all red, but let's invest in who Christ is in us. Let's just throw it all in

And so I think the Lord gave me another I tried it on jill

She wasn't impressed, but maybe you'll be a little more impressed, but the Lord gave me this little saying

thoughts become words

Words become actions

And actions become outcome

You know if our thoughts are not

With expectation that God can do all things. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

You know, it's him living in me

Where are the limitations wherever he doesn't want me to go but other than that the sky's the limit

Right like my thoughts and then start speaking into that

Start telling friends that you could trust and aren't going to say you're crazy or you know be negative towards you or you know

Try to quench your joy, you know, there's people like that

I don't know if you ever met them a couple not in here, but there's a couple out there

Let's just say that's stupid. Why would you think you can do that?

You know david had a couple of brothers that way like that, right?

A lot joseph had some brothers like that. That's a dumb dream

Right, you know, we all have people in our lives that say what do you really you know?

But start speaking to people you could trust and I think the Lord has called me to maybe do this like

You know start speaking those things that you have thoughts about

You know and then not only that but don't stop there, you know

Henry ford he had some ideas and he probably told some people but did he stop there?

You know, he he he actually put it into action, right and we're gonna fail

The good thing about the Lord is that he is so gracious. He keeps lifting. Come on

We're gonna do this get back up. Come on. Let's go. We're gonna we're gonna get to where we're going

Right. He's always picking you back up. You don't have to fail once and turn away and say

Give it a try. No, it's like if he called you to it

He will bring it to fruition

Right and so we could trust him that he's going to accomplish he who began a good work and you will complete it

In Christ Jesus. He's going to do the work

He's going to complete the task, right?

So what we say those words then become actions if i'm going to say this i'm not going to keep talking about it

I'm actually going to do it

I am going to do it and i'm going to keep doing it until I see what happens

The results because we know that there will be evidence like we just read the evidence of things unseen and you know

I really think the true intent of that verse

Is that you didn't want to see it now you see it

You will see the outcome of your faith in this life and beyond of course

But when you believe and act in faith

Don't you always see the outcome?

There's always going to be an outcome and it's going to be maybe not what you expected, but it's an outcome

And you could say Lord. Thank you for letting me see it on this side of heaven

I can only imagine what it's going to look like on that side of heaven

Some things we won't see down here people we touched and moved and inspired

We may never see the results until years later

But suddenly someone will come up and say yeah, I remember you

And suddenly they'll say thing. I did that I said that I don't remember any of that, you know sure it was me, you know

Because you know that's what happens, but even if you never see it you're going to see it someday

Right because he never forgets what you do in faith. Amen

And I was just thinking about this how the Lord, you know again

Our thoughts become words our words become actions and our actions

Become reality right our actions have an outcome

Okay, and that's what they become the outcome. And so we see the results of it

I love what Jesus said to his disciples about like speaking things into existence when he said in mark 11 23 and 24

He said for sure

The I say to you whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea

And does not doubt in his heart

But believes that those things he says will be done

He will have whatever he says now. That's a

That's a promise, right?

Therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray

Believe that you receive them

And you will have them, you know, some people read that say well, maybe that's not exactly what he means

well

There could be some metaphor there

You might not actually literally be saying all right pray for the mountains along the lehi river that they would move a little bit

South okay to give a little more land to south beflahim. I doubt he means a literal mountain

He's talking about what mountain is in the way of your life

Right because he he's saying no i'll either

Carry you over it or you're i'm gonna remove it

Just speak it into existence the voice of a believer has so much power

So much weight, you know because when we say things in faith

It's like the word of God pouring out of us

In fact the word says we're all prophets now i'm not saying speaking the future

I'm saying we have a prophetic calling to speak the word of God into situations down here on earth, right?

As the worship team comes forward

And we prepare for communion

You know, we could see these patriarchs of faith

There's going to be 16 of them mentioned

In hebrews 11

And there's going to be a lot more inferred like people that they're going to talk about but not mention their names

But as you read it, you're like, I I know that

Yeah, she had a son

raised from the dead and yep, I remember

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego like we just I think we just sang about that which was cool

You know, they're in the fire doesn't mention their names, but we know who they are, right?

Even daniel doesn't mention daniel's name

But we know who he is and we know that the lion's mouths were shut, right?

But because of their faith how much more us?

in this

day and age

Being the new creation of Christ

Should we not expect to walk in power and authority in this world? Amen

Because he says we have that authority. I love what david

You can start giving out the

elements

When david you remember, you know, his brothers always

talked them down and all that and

finally

you know david was

Walking out to the battlefield and he's here in goliath this nine foot nine inch guy

With a spear. I forget how long and weight and the head of the spear was probably half the weight of david, right?

And he's watching this monster

But he was denouncing God and the Lord's army

And something came over david's heart like

like

Lord, are you gonna let this guy go unchecked?

Like Lord, don't we have to do something about this like I did with the bear that was attacking the sheep and the lie

like something needs to be done with this

monster

Lord, I know you're not

Going to let this go unchecked. I'm I'm infusing my own commentary here

But he's asking what what you know, what's happening here?

And as he's watching this

And he's gaining more and more

confidence

and courage

and

expectation

Because remember his faith was in who God was his faith was that he is going to be king. Do you remember that?

Samuel said you're going to be king and he poured the oil on his head from a horn

And said you are the next king of israel. Had he been king of israel yet?

No, right and so

He received the anointing. He knew he had to be king

I'm not king yet

I can't die here now

Think about that

Is the Lord gonna let you die in your failures?

Or is he going to lift you up and say no we're doing this thing. We're going to overcome

And I believe david said, you know, wait, this is all wow

I don't get it

But I have a supernatural faith here and I have courage and confidence that I never had before

Except with the bear and the lion, but I got some courage and confidence and he went out into

the battlefield

And these words he said then david said to the philistine you come to me with a sword with a spirit with a javelin

But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts the God of the armies of israel

Whom you have defied

And then verse 46

This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand

And I will strike you and take your head from you

And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the philistines

To the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth

That all the earth may know that there is a God

in

israel

That's some trash talk there

But guess what?

It's some heavenly talk

Because he already sees it. He already sees it. You know, imagine that he already envisioned

Goliath goes down. He runs up. There's the sword. There's the head

Just like I just said like he saw the whole thing happening before it happened

Because he said you know, I am not king yet. The Lord will bring a victory here

Now I I don't think i'm ever going to go in front of a nine foot nine inch

Person and have to do something like that my mount my giants are little things

That I just have to have faith that the Lord has

Overcome that he will deliver me from this. All of us have these giants in our lives

And it could be just a relationship that we wish would get better

It could be someone that we just can't get overcome. We can't overcome the unforgiveness

The pain and hurt that we experienced from someone that might even be long dead by now

And that might be your goliath

But the Lord will say no

No, no, come on. We have this. Do you remember david just didn't walk in there like, you know

You know swinging he ran

He ran

He charged

Towards a nine foot nine giant all armored up with the sword the shield the javelin the spear everything

Unafraid he ran, you know, I believe that we need to charge into battle knowing who the conqueror truly is

Because of our firm foundation

Of faith. Amen

Amen, let's have communion

Father

God as we

Just meditate Lord on your word all these promises

Being yes and amen again and again and again Lord God, you promise that you will overcome

You promise that through our faith we will overcome whether it be an addiction

whether it be

Whether it be finances

Whether it be sickness

Lord we want to run into this

We want to run into this with so much confidence in you

And know that we are victorious

If anyone here has never received the Lord as your savior, I just

I'm begging you right now do it

Because the word says don't take the communion in an unworthy manner and you know

None of us are worthy apart from Christ, but all of us are worthy in Christ

Right, and so i'm just going to ask you right now

Don't let this moment go

Because your life is hopeless

Without Jesus Christ you are hopeless and i'm not being mean i'm being truthful

Our lives are hopeless

Without faith in Jesus Christ. We have no hope

But in him we can build a strong and mighty fortress of hope

Father God as we eat this bread

We trust everyone in here is saved and if someone isn't Lord God

We ask you to just inspire them right now to surrender to you

Lord we eat this bread remembering that it was your body that was nailed to the cross

You became our sins our sins died with you on the cross

Lord, thank you for being the bread from heaven

We thank you for the bread in Jesus name. Amen

And father guys we drink this cup

We remember it's because your blood was shed for us

That our sins are washed away

We are truly born again

new creations

And we have a firm foundation in you Lord God and we have a hope

And a future

We thank you for the shed blood

In Jesus name amen

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