2019-09-29 Dr. Cecil Peasley
Well, good morning friends. It really is a great joy to be able to be back here at Walden Road. We were trying to work out just when last I was here. I think it was 18 months 24 months for a while ago and since then have been around the world in different places and different parts to be able to share the gospel of our Lord and savior and I certainly am grateful for your prayers and interest in Ministry and we thank God for those who are part of this and that my wife every week sends out on Friday night. She sent out of 2/11 hundred people in different parts of the world to be praying for Walden Road Unit of these days and say there is a highly concentrated focused. Prayers going out for God's blessing upon the church in these days. And so I believe we have a Divine appointment and I trust we will not miss what God wants to do within our midst. When Billy Graham was just a young preacher. He was in a certain town somewhere in the u.s. Having meetings and he was walking through the streets and he happened to me the young fellow. How do you say to the young man? Can you show me how to get to the post office? And they said you just go down the street here and there and then you'll find the post office and he said by the way, what are you doing in this town of house? Oh, I'm here to show people how to get infant. He said good gracious me. This man doesn't even know how to get to the post office. And yeah, he's trying to tell us to go to heaven.
But we are so grateful for the opportunity to be here and trust that God blessing will be upon the meetings today tonight Monday and Tuesday. I'm on a two-month trip off your country and just in the second week now and we're getting up to Alabama from here. My wife will be joining me for two weeks off the trip, and I'm so grateful for that and then she'll be with me while in Alabama. Just sorry she couldn't get yet.
Okay, so you can all hear me. That's so important. Yes. I spent two months March and April are crossing the beautiful country of New Zealand. Just amazing country. It only has about four and a half million people and was there during the time you'll remember in April when someone walked into a mosque and shot 50 Islamic people and it really was almost a national catastrophe as New Zealand was so deeply upset cuz this is something totally foreign to the lifestyle and culture New Zealand, but it certainly created a wonderful opportunity to minister in the churches and to bring to the attention of the church the tremendous forces that I live in the palace that are active within that country and I was able to go to a number of churches right round on the North and the South Island, but did find that that country. Organize country hits was very secular and very human humanistic. Very materialistic. We meet people that have never heard of Jesus Christ and it really was a minute to see what I Mission field. It was we are taking things back there next year. Actually they've crying out for Spiritual help and for evangelism then so will be taking teams back neck their next September and we certainly would be grateful for your prayers for that and incidentally in your prayer and pray for my son and his wife and children. They are leaving tonight from South Africa to immigrate to New Zealand. He's a pastor and works on church planting and they moving across two nights in the garden continue to open the doors at 4 that God bless them for the willingness to go.
So glad to have The Rock Says with us here this morning. I think gave me wonderful hospitality. Please give him a good hand with no name for the long time. Thank you so much. Thank you right now. I want us to turn to the book of Samuel and I want to speak this morning on one of the most well-known stories in the Bible 1 Samuel chapter 17 and the salt reading from verse 20. I think all of you. Yeah, even the young folk what should be familiar with this story and yet every time we look at it. It's got something fresh to tell us somehow. There's something about the wood that every time you look at it. You seen something you haven't seen before that's the Holy Spirit and he's a to illuminate the sacred page and I trust this we look at the story. We will discover something fresh this morning 1 Samuel chapter 17 and reading from verse 20
Getting myself. So David Rose up early in the morning. Let's the sheep with a coupon and took the thing. When does Jesse had come on to him? He came to the campus the Army was going out to the fight and shouting for the bathroom. Israel and the Philistines for Israel in the Philistines and throwing up in battle array Army against Army And David lifting supplies in the hand of the supply keeping ran into the army and pain and his brothers could have sweet times in the story of when he kept running and it's quite interesting then as he talked with them. They was attempting the Philistine Goliath my name coming up from the army of the Philistines at least according to the same words that David had them when they saw the man fled from him and would richly afraid. So the men in Israel said have you seen this man who is come up surely. He has come to defy Israel. And it shall be enriched with great riches and will give his daughter and give his father's house exemption from taxes in Israel. Then David spoke to the man who stood by and saying what shall be done for the man who kills this and takes away the reproach from Israel when the Israelis saw this as an attack against Israel. He saw it as an attack against the armies of the Living God and so he saw beyond that which was seen and saw what was seen as he assessed the situation and the people answered him in this metal saying so should it be done for the man who killed him that you have his oldest brother Hood when you spoke to them in and interrupts anger was aroused against David who said why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know you pride in the incidence of your heart. You've come down to see the bathroom and the David said what have I done now noticed it from him.
These people answered him as the first ones did David spoke with her that reported them to sort and they went for him. Then he sent to him for him. Then Davis hit your soul with no man's heart fail because of him your servant will go and fight with this Philistine insult steam to fight with him for you are use the amount of water used to keep his father's sheep when the line or took a lamb out of the flock. I wait after eating Struck it and deliver the lamb from its mouth. And what is a rose against me on your Sevendust kill about the line in the bed and this uncircumcised. Philistine will be like one of them seeing he has defied the armies of the living. God whatever David said the Lord delivered me from the from the port of the line in from the port of the bed. He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine SolarCity David go the Lord be with you just sort of David with these all night and put a bronze helmet on his head. He also closed in with a coat of mail David Foster. Do you sort to his Alma Alma and try to walk but he had not tested in Davis hit the soul. I cannot walk with ease, but I have not tested then they took his stuff in his hand returns for himself five smooth stones from the brook and put them in a shepherd's bag in a pouch, which she had a sling was in his hands and he drew near to the philistine. So the first thing came and began drawing here to David and the man who brought the shield went before him and when the Philistine looked about them sore David he just standing but he was only are you good looking? So the Philistine said to David Amaya dog, you come to me with sticks and the Philistine cursed David by his Gods the Philistines Hitta David come to me and I will give your flesh to the birds. They are the Beast of the field in Davis CA to the Philistine. You come to me with a sword with a spear and a javelin right come to you in the name of the Lord the god of the armies of Israel about to be declared this day the Lord will deliver you into my hand and I will strike you and take your head from you this day. I will the caucus of the Philistines to the birds of the air that all the other
In Israel in all the assembly shall know that the Lord God does not say with the sword and spear for the battle is the Lord's and he will give you so it was wonderful listening a rose and came and Junior to meet David the David to meet the Philistine in David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone these sling it and struck the Philistine in the forehead. So I got the stones sank into his forehead and he fell on his face to the ground to David prevailed against the Philistine with a sling the Soul Stone and struck the Philistine and killed him, but there was no sword in the hand of David there for David ran. This is number three way was running and stood up with a Philistine took you so long Andrew get out of its sheath and killed him and cut his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their Champion was dead. They also ran they fled in another Direction. And we will leave adjust a jail so far. May God bless and interpret those words into our hearts father. I just pray that right now in your faithfulness your holy spirit will work in all of our hearts open our eyes to see and behold wondrous things out of your wood Minister through each one in Jesus name.
I think you will soon discover. If you start reading the Bible from Genesis that the Bible is a book about wall. Right from the beginning of time and history. They was a battle raging in the beautiful Garden of Eden. That Bethel live. Didn't ever stop and we'll never stop until we finally got her in the fields of the year for the final battle of the ages the battle of Armageddon and so you and I find ourselves in the midst of a terrifying Bible. It's not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities of Darkness. It's against spiritual wickedness in high places. So we find here that is this particular bathroom as in all cases was reduced to the individual level and the one that one represented the entire nation. Everyone was naturally scared because I saw the far-reaching implications and consequences off. They are, that Michael and so we find that says the people with kid who old soul was so backslidden the king that sell backs then he didn't do it come out of his hole that he was hiding in and so the nation was in town and in fear, they seem to be a solution to the crisis. What was happening was a man by the name of Goliath. A huge colossal kind of a man came and threatened the heart of that Nation. This giant breed down and specialties blasphemies. against the Living God little did the nation realize what was fully involved in this. You see friends Justice David found that he had to face a huge giant in his life. Many people today are facing the threat of many Giants in the alive. Someone is well said that then every few there is a broken heart. And I think that's true in one sense. It was a pretty one of us are engaged in some kind of a bathroom. And it's not against flesh and blood. It's against something far greater than flesh-and-blood. It's against the forces of Darkness that are ganging up to attention upon each one of us as individuals and the implications for reaching for more realize what a situation the Giants we faced can be tangible as well as intangible to destroy too depressed to discourage potential at 7. So the most high God it could the Giants could be some unattainable goal some unfinished project some unfulfilled green some revocable situation remove from us all the joy of walking the heights. adroit in your life and if you do
that's how serious it is. the Giants expose all hidden weakness
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But I can tell you one thing this morning if you walking with God the Giants will expose your hidden strength. That we have as children of the most high God.
Are the Giants in your life?
You see friends whenever there's an opportunity to serve God these opposition from the Giant. Whenever there is potential in your life to fulfill your god-given call problems. It even knows how to replace replace these. Whatever. There is the possibility of Glorious Victory. There is the shadow defeat. Satan's greatest intention in your life and mine is to para to paralyze and to neutralize our faith because you see friends your face is your greatest asset. You never have all the things we have three died, but it's your choice.
That is most important. Jesus said when the son of man returns, will he find faith?
No face. Its power lies in the object of its face. Is he the object of his faith is Jesus Christ? And faith comes from a trust and a commitment to Jesus Christ of your entire life. I remember when I gave my heart to Jesus at the age of 15 back in South Africa. I've been bitten by a snake. My wife was in the balance. I was going to face eternity God by his grace carried me through but this is what happened. I made a decision that not only to trust Jesus to save my soul to save my life. Because you've only got one life. Turtle soon be past and it's only what you do for Christ lost nothing else in the final of your life and nothing.
What are situation David found himself a moment to speak really on.
Open Goliath in his life. What are children should watch you? See he had a number of options within reach? like the old have he could've just happened. Like everybody else was hiding and that should have been standing. And he couldn't really it was just some kind of an attempt to strike fear in that denial. He could have lived friends in an attempt to challenge that was coming through to him, but he realized it was something at stake. responsibility he sure does it challenge? any needed astrology He needed a game plan. He couldn't just sit there with the others and gaze into the stars and hope that something would come down from heaven didn't. Piney Point friend said he could not run from
The Game Plan what's so important?
Here to the situation with all that stuff.
And inadequacies from the Divine perspective. It's the only way we looking from alpha spective Whitaker from the wells perspective and we even looking from the politicians for perspective.
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remembered was reminded of the part that use First. Part of the games that you see this is 34 - 37 he had built in the past. And the same God that led to the lion and the Beast of the defiant philistine. You're not laughing sometimes and the Christian Life. We all things we need we need to remember that we forget. There are some things we need to forget that we forget that we ought to remember. approach the situation the yesterday's fight from this guarantees tomorrow's coverage. He's going to need it. Now. He couldn't suddenly find some formula. He relied now on the Ranger and his faithfulness of the past. You don't do face overnight. It's an ongoing experience around growth process. Yukon suddenly shoving to a man's heart that's a judgment day all the type he needs and that our no friends. It's talk long before then. It's a day-by-day god understanding he's living in the light as he is in the lights. Never forget what God has done. Your life in the past. Is he Philippians 1 verse 6 tells us he's amazing world that I always hang on to being confident of this very thing that he would just begun a good work in you which day of Jesus Christ is the way it's a day-by-day try to UC the greatest indicator of the future is what God has done in the past.
He's done it in different ways. He started Glee. We seen God at work.
You never decided. to come into this world you never chose. Who your parents would be? You never decided I'm going to settle in Corpus Christi.
You didn't decide on your agenda.
Someone else decided for you. Appoint just a point in time when you came into this world. It wasn't for nothing. But the way it was new just getting onto a survival trip.
He's also point of the day to die or we can proceed that in Towson that he has that moment. He is in charge. He's in control right through to the end. Look at his birth and Resurrection. What an incredible thing you see the life of Jesus is flanked by two in possibilities. The Virgin births and the empty tomb by he's controlling influence get the other people today that's of the own lies and living room living rejection and in unbelief. historically What a great moment. You see when the resurrection happened the way of impossibility was canceled.
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I'd rather follow up Victorious. Man of God or God than anyone or anything else. In this world. He's the same yesterday today and forever. There was something else that's what we see you at 12 tomorrow the game plan. He also had to come to terms like we all do.
To realize what the stakes were. What was at stake? the implications the consequences
Do you have fuses?
That's how we have to we all live from the Divine perspective. Otherwise, it's just too much. The pressures are coming in from every side is all falling away is the Bible says it with but you see your friends here realize the steaks now we're looking for is 25 and 26 and we will see something of it this 25. That's you should say to David the king does not that's why I mean the next chapter 25 So the men of Israel City, have you seen this man? Who's come up? Sure. He's come to defy Israel 26th. David said he's come to defy the armies of the Living God. There's a slight difference. They were just looking as I mentioned a moment at the scene at the end of your problem.
And he sees that he's God's name is a steak. the fight you and I have cannot be fought on the human plane. Did you going to lose? Look around.
Go to the mental asylums the prisons and you will find many many people. They're locked away. The devil has moved in any Turtle brutality.
Human Resources, we trying to do this friend, even though I'll probably keeps it from that but the Tennessee folder one at that level. You see the opposite of faith.
And fear creeps into every life what happens tomorrow? I might lose my job tomorrow. I might get the doctor's ready cuz I've got canceled tomorrow. I may not survive until next Sunday cuz all I know they all feels crunchy going to have any control. Fear tolerated is Faith contaminated. Y'all cooties. The trouble wall as today.
Let's Souls armies. Sol's armies what are the previous to this fact? It was only going to be there fighting League all that's going to make the difference. That's why they ran. That's why they couldn't take on the challenge. They had no way to overcome it. David found a way you see man being one of y'all out as the electron done said a man will never trust God unless he has to that's good. You don't really want to be like the real owner of Genius. Will Pool Supply Company?
The only way is through faith in God. Inside cometh by hearing and hearing from the word of God and get some out friend. We don't believe that if we did friends we would be very generalized a my day with the word weenie like those Cypress about in the book of Acts.
In the Western World, we close down Wednesday not to close down something Sunday night, and we just completely and just the right.
How can we fight the devil on the minimum friends?
So we find the David. Discover the issues in out at stake the glory of God.
the future of the nation
the battle of the Ages was raging then introduce scenario. Goliath introduce another kind of weapon that I see all over the world today. He says kerin David by he's gone.
In other words, he brought another vicious serpent into that scene.
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strengthen his case My friends we seen this rampant. Wishing our boys and girls have been exposed to this.
What a tragic situation.
Is an explosion of your heart Harry Potter is ramen. The enemy has never slept since he saw the video of Harry Potter. No problem today friends you simply this it's any difference. How to decrease with discussing you know, they're probably not churches ignorance and indifference and the other two flies with his what I don't know and I don't care.
All your way what's going on? You didn't you call yourself a Christian today here in the midst of it was a conflict of History offer you anything he can do you interlock anything to a materialistic mind to get us off the track on face.
Only takes one ounce of Disobedience and you'll face begin to shrink. What do you call the Rejection of the negatives especially negative?
Everything we believe from the word of God is under attack. football song Stupid scientist that by the Devil Himself is he
Rejection of the negatives where they came from different quarters that came from his family number one. He was in trouble with his own family. And sometimes this is where the attacks come from. We see in verse 28 through 230. He's Brothers got him out now. Another wizard was all the time and he did not expect any kind of encouragement from home.
doubling your family broken relationships Is a John?
He said I might want to break today. the city the people but the only he's he's family buddies, but the people I think you doing have you lost your mind. What the implications of these type of shoemaking? They wouldn't be encouraging and my friends. I want to tell you this morning. There is nothing nothing and yet that's what we live. That's what we spend our time and resources. It's around the word of God with the family of God. The bride of Christ is going to spend all of eternity.
I thank God for the remnant that I'm seeing in this country of men and women that are serious that are past the stage of playing games. That are willing to pay any price to stand for what's right and true. Affect your boats allowed to take your allegiances using friends. We love being stolen from us.
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What a situation even the king the highest the highest office in the land.
What are you going to offer?
Course we are. inadequate But it's not that friends you see.
God doesn't cool.
the qualified he qualifies the called. detox Alliance Broken messed up when he sees a heart that's serious response to stage while playing game. The Breakthrough the indifference that has controlled us out thinking and responses when he sees them and that he's willing to go through with God.
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What was I looking up at you? Because you love Jesus and walk with him and refused to engage at all what's going on in that?
We are violated one Zoloft or nothing. Billy has a lot of these game plan was he relied on spiritual weapons? Soul offered him the choice weapons those that he was afraid to use himself because he knew
How do you find second accept these condo weapons? You see the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal But Mighty to the pulling down of Afro hose. Do we know those weapons friends? The worst thing you can have these weapons stored in your house, but you don't know how to use them. If you're not using it is a military parade.
You don't know how to use. He found a spiritual weapon both for defense and attack. You see he wanted to be holy before he could be a year of. He wants you to be at 7 before you could be a soldier. He found the charge the power to use these weapons.
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Don't you think it's me? Still no idea. You know idea. Then he uses a very important turn and introduces this into the battlefield. He refers to the lord of House. This is what it's all about. This is who's he involved? It's not against flesh and blood.
It's a lord of hosts that I'm introducing into the situation and my friends until we introduced the Lord of hosts.
the little day How do you say so much junk? Things that belong to the World the Flesh and the devil at the Lord's got no say the only time we are God's voice is hearing the church and even then it's blood hope. He goes to the principal and Crosby come with hearts and Minds friends.
He relied on a Divine Authority. He brought God Almighty into the equation. This is what we make a mistake. We ones are we bring God into many of our situations? We love God to bless our family and right we all skins with dedicated.
He's committed to you.
So he brings gone right into the into the equation.
Going to give him the authority that he needs fear has gone he's alone now.
Whatsoever is guaranteed. He stands alone in that.
All he's got is divine Authority.
And he's in the majority.
Is he a safe and has no authority over us except surrendered or sold?
We didn't have his way for too long. He does not belong in your home is it does does not belong in your life. It does not the wrong in the church. Is Christ and Christ himself? David finds five smooth stones
Stones that have been shut down through the years by God. God of the rainbow stones to be there.
A shepherd's bag that has been building as well any places them in the shepherd's bag with a secret things that God has given to him.
You go pick up his back.
Do you know God is what you said you that you control from when the bathroom gets too tough?
It couldn't rely now on Condell advice. He couldn't rely upon anyone.
Take me to the next point. He ran. the world's enemy what everybody was running away? They were just running to the enemy you talk about courage. Normally speaking you be regarded as a fool. Does a condom on how ridiculous?
You see it's no good us talkin about face. Unless your faith is an action.
Georgia Tech bowl that he's believed it wasn't too much friends, but it was enough to motivating. It was enough to call. I'm trusting you.
Courage has a corresponding behavior of empowered faith. the final tortillas he wants a reciprocation action. You see this is 51 52 and 54. That's Stone went. Right to the forehead the most vulnerable point of the head did I want God was directing. He's perfect.
Like I said never been challenged like this before.
It doesn't understand that. This was a different kind of attack.
You know what happened? But I have to wind down. Young David was able to drop his head by using the rhizome sore. He's a little sore. David randons to do with a Philistine cookie soul food out of its sheath
I said that wasn't possible. If you read the history of God's people come with me for a while to Africa come with me into the Iron Curtain countries in across the China have the kind of freedoms we have but they do have a face. Listen to the stories of divine intervention. something we only read about this is the garden action. You see the Bible.
We like our comfort zone. adult Rhino protected the David
in the Olympic Games, they would have the races. and of course the one I was the one that got first to the winning post. But there was one particular race. It is a little different. 2 the races that they would have each one would like to have a lamp. I liked it lamp they would run with the lighted lamp and rage towards the Finishing Line.
The one whose light was still burning.
The one who's lamp was to Boerne. That's what counts. Jalon, con out. It's time to be United again reunited. It's time for the flame. You don't want to get to the end and the Flames going out. This is one of the praise of my heart that I will when I come to the end of life's Little Road, and I'm 75 now.
That the lamp was Kobe money.
That I'll still be strong. I've seen men deteriorate towards the end of life.
That's not the Divine intention is to strengthen.
to hold on don't wait until the situation favors you what the plan is perfectly formed. The one thing. the green light from God
will you turn it on my friend? And if somehow you've since this joint is Disturbed and Rob you of so much.
You don't have to live like that. You wouldn't want to live like that friend to me.
Every one of us in the vagina. Have to face the Giant and either you kill the joint or the joint will kill you. May you be numbered among the Overcomers.