WEBVTT - I Ain’t Never Scared, Part 3 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.600 God want to get the fear out of me today? 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.200 We say the punk out of us. He knew the 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.680 way to do it was to put me in a 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:14.160 situation where I had no help but him. And from 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.040 that day forward, I ain't never scared. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.280 You're listening to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.280 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.120 I'm Steve Hiller, and before we hear why you weren't 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.080 ever scared. Uh, you got to clear something up for me. Okay. Today, 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:40.239 we say get the punk out of us. Uh, what 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:40.840 does that mean? 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:42.160 Well, um. 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.280 You're talking to a suburban guy here. When? 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.560 When people get punked, it literally means that somebody did 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.640 something that made you back down from something that you 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.480 should not have backed down from. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:55.959 Okay. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:01:00.200 Yeah. And so, you know that. Yeah. It's a colloquialism. 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.880 All right. All right, all right. So now we move 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.200 on to what the point of today's broadcast is all about. God. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.160 God getting the fear out of you. How'd he do that? 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.119 Yeah, well, I think he puts you in fearful situations, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.480 you know, and this that I'm going to share today 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:22.000 happened when I was practically a new believer. I don't 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.880 think I had been saved two years when this happened. No, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:27.600 not even a year when this happened. But I'll show 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:32.240 you how it works today. Yeah. Then I was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.319 Steeler fan into his house. 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.840 I've been in your office. Still Steeler fans, Steelers everywhere. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:39.360 A Chicago Bears fan. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.520 Well, you know, I tell them we ought to be 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.560 just like I am with the Steelers. Everybody ought to 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:49.760 have no doubt as to who my allegiance is to. Amen. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:50.279 It's true. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.240 So let me tell you how it has affected me 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:57.600 even today. Uh, rewind the video a little bit. Go 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.240 back to when we came to Chicago and I shared 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.560 where we were living in Humboldt Park. We moved to 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:09.639 South Shore and it got worse. And these guys were 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:13.359 trying to recruit my kids, and this one little gangbanger 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.120 came up. This was like in the middle of the day, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.640 pulled a gun on me. And, you know, I prayed, Lord, 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.480 you know, if it's my time, you know, prepare me 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.040 because I believe in thanatology. You know, that's the study 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.000 of death. That is, you get dying, Grace, when it's 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.840 time to die. So I actually felt like if this 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.680 is the time he's going to give me grace to die. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.400 And the young man was impressed that I was not 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.760 afraid that he had pulled a weapon on me. Yeah. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.600 You know, and I said, well, you know, I'm not 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.480 afraid because God is on my side. You know, he 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.920 never leaves me nor forsake me, you know. And so 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.360 you may be able to kill my body, but he's 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.950 able to kill your body and your soul and my 0:03:00.950 --> 0:03:04.310 soul belongs to him, and I start sharing the gospel. 0:03:04.350 --> 0:03:08.390 He put the weapon in his pants. Yeah. You know. 0:03:08.430 --> 0:03:12.790 And then turned and walked away. Crazy. It's crazy. I said, yeah, I'm. 0:03:12.870 --> 0:03:16.270 I'm out of my mind for Jesus Christ, you know? Yeah. Yeah. 0:03:16.310 --> 0:03:19.430 And later on, he never came to Christ. But later on, 0:03:19.430 --> 0:03:22.070 he said, Reverend, you know, I like a person. I 0:03:22.070 --> 0:03:25.110 like a reverend like you. The average reverend would have been. 0:03:25.150 --> 0:03:27.030 Come on now, we don't want to do this. And, 0:03:27.070 --> 0:03:29.030 you know, I mean, you just look there. You just 0:03:29.030 --> 0:03:31.750 look me in the eye. You weren't afraid at all. 0:03:31.870 --> 0:03:34.709 And I said, yeah, because I already told you, you know, 0:03:34.710 --> 0:03:37.070 God is on my side. Yeah. You know. 0:03:37.110 --> 0:03:39.790 So. Yeah. Well, we're going to hear a different story 0:03:39.790 --> 0:03:43.110 in today's broadcast. So we're going to start, though, by 0:03:43.110 --> 0:03:46.390 opening our Bibles to Psalm 27 and continuing the message. 0:03:46.510 --> 0:03:48.990 I ain't never scared. Here's Pastor Ford. 0:03:49.710 --> 0:03:52.390 And so Ray and I were trying to witness to 0:03:52.430 --> 0:03:56.310 a brother named hook. His name is Michael. And, uh, Mike, uh, 0:03:56.310 --> 0:03:59.510 was like, like a sinner to the max. And didn't he? 0:03:59.510 --> 0:04:01.950 He would flaunt in front of us even though we 0:04:01.950 --> 0:04:04.310 were friends. And so, you know, we'd say, you know, 0:04:04.350 --> 0:04:06.710 he say, he say you're not smoking anymore, huh? And 0:04:06.710 --> 0:04:09.630 he light up a joint and blow it in your face. 0:04:09.630 --> 0:04:12.190 Stuff like that. Yeah, he do stuff like that. You 0:04:12.190 --> 0:04:15.830 ain't drinking no more, huh? Oh, you know, he would 0:04:15.830 --> 0:04:18.669 do stuff like that. Mike was so bad. Mike had 0:04:18.670 --> 0:04:23.030 two women that both knew that he was going with them. 0:04:23.029 --> 0:04:25.270 And he invited both of them to live with him, 0:04:25.270 --> 0:04:29.589 and they both came to live with him. So two, 0:04:29.750 --> 0:04:33.990 he living like Abraham, Hagar and Sarah and I. I 0:04:34.029 --> 0:04:36.750 never could figure out Sarah as a black woman doing 0:04:36.750 --> 0:04:41.470 that one anyway. Ain't no black woman I know now 0:04:41.470 --> 0:04:43.710 when she kicked him out. That's the black women I know, 0:04:43.750 --> 0:04:47.950 you know. But anyway. So. So, uh, two, two, ten 0:04:47.990 --> 0:04:52.750 in the morning, I get a call. Who's this? It's Hulk. 0:04:52.910 --> 0:04:58.070 What's wrong? Hook. What's wrong? We want to be saved, man. 0:04:58.070 --> 0:05:00.510 We want to be saved at 210 in the morning. 0:05:02.350 --> 0:05:05.830 I got up, brushed my teeth, put on my clothes. 0:05:05.830 --> 0:05:07.550 My wife said, where are you going? I said, hook 0:05:07.550 --> 0:05:09.590 called me. He want to be saved. You. You ain't 0:05:09.589 --> 0:05:11.990 going out there tonight, are you? Tell him you'll see 0:05:11.990 --> 0:05:13.630 him in the morning. He want to be saved now. 0:05:13.630 --> 0:05:16.670 I'm going now, he cried. Now I'm going now. And 0:05:16.670 --> 0:05:18.790 I got in what we call the gospel buggy. It 0:05:18.790 --> 0:05:20.350 was a car that was given to me. It was 0:05:20.350 --> 0:05:23.029 the first miracle that God showed me whenever I turned 0:05:23.029 --> 0:05:24.909 my car in. Because I had to make a choice 0:05:24.910 --> 0:05:29.869 between keeping my car and paying my rent. And anybody knows, 0:05:29.870 --> 0:05:32.870 before I got saved, it was no contest. I keep 0:05:32.870 --> 0:05:37.350 my car. But now that I was saved, I had 0:05:37.350 --> 0:05:39.430 to pay my rent. So I had to let the 0:05:39.430 --> 0:05:41.710 car go. And so Ray said, well, let's pray and 0:05:41.710 --> 0:05:44.870 ask God, God don't give cars. And boom! Two days 0:05:44.870 --> 0:05:47.350 later I was given a car and I called it 0:05:47.350 --> 0:05:49.990 the Gospel Buggy. And so I get in the Gospel 0:05:50.029 --> 0:05:52.990 buggy and I get ready to go. I leave Homewood, 0:05:52.990 --> 0:05:56.470 I head on up to Wilkinsburg, uh, where where hook live? Uh, 0:05:56.470 --> 0:06:00.789 when I get around the corner, uh, the car stops. 0:06:00.790 --> 0:06:03.990 I'm four blocks from his house. This is a dangerous place. 0:06:04.270 --> 0:06:06.470 Best I can tell you is it's like being in 0:06:06.470 --> 0:06:10.550 the bucket of blood at 3:00 in the morning. Amen. Amen. 0:06:10.589 --> 0:06:14.310 You know what I'm talking about. And and so and so. I'm. 0:06:14.310 --> 0:06:16.350 I'm saying, God, get this car to going. I gotta 0:06:16.350 --> 0:06:18.390 get the hook. And I can't be walking four blocks 0:06:18.390 --> 0:06:23.510 in in this because I knew. Because, see, before, uh, 0:06:23.670 --> 0:06:27.589 the the people that I was afraid of as a Christian, uh, 0:06:27.630 --> 0:06:33.070 was me before I became a Christian. Yeah. And so 0:06:33.470 --> 0:06:36.349 and so, you know, I said, man, I got to go. Okay, Lord, 0:06:36.350 --> 0:06:38.630 you're not going to start the car. You gotta protect me. 0:06:38.630 --> 0:06:41.510 So I'm walking, I'm walking, I'm singing and I'm singing. 0:06:41.550 --> 0:06:44.190 You know, Andre Cross was big back then. Andre Crouch 0:06:44.270 --> 0:06:47.710 was our Kurt Franklin and Tye Tribbett. And so I'm 0:06:47.710 --> 0:06:50.909 singing some Andre Crouch songs, you know, and and and 0:06:50.950 --> 0:06:54.070 and and just watching and and thinking man, you know, 0:06:54.110 --> 0:06:56.550 you used to be out in this, you know. Yeah. 0:06:56.550 --> 0:06:59.229 But that was before I became a Christian. So I 0:06:59.270 --> 0:07:02.229 come around the corner now Cemeteries here. And he lives 0:07:02.230 --> 0:07:04.550 on a dead end street. So once you walk, start 0:07:04.550 --> 0:07:07.109 walking up that street. There's only one way out. That's 0:07:07.110 --> 0:07:09.309 the back this way. So as soon as I turn 0:07:09.310 --> 0:07:11.710 the corner, I look out of my peripheral vision. I 0:07:11.710 --> 0:07:16.950 see a guy steps to block my entrance or exit, actually, 0:07:16.950 --> 0:07:19.270 because that's what it would have been. And I begin 0:07:19.270 --> 0:07:21.670 to pray. I said, Lord, I know this scenario. I 0:07:21.670 --> 0:07:23.190 used to do it myself. Me and my brother in 0:07:23.190 --> 0:07:25.790 law Bill. That's the way we were robbed. Somebody come 0:07:25.790 --> 0:07:27.870 behind them, step out in front of him. I said, 0:07:27.870 --> 0:07:29.550 I know somebody's going to step out in front of me. 0:07:29.550 --> 0:07:32.590 And a couple doors up, guy stepped out from a 0:07:32.590 --> 0:07:35.590 walkway and I said, oh man, I ain't got no money. 0:07:35.590 --> 0:07:38.550 And so, you know, folk, when you ain't got no money, 0:07:38.830 --> 0:07:40.590 you know, I said, okay, well, I'm just going to 0:07:40.590 --> 0:07:42.750 witness to him, Lord, I'm just going to witness to him. 0:07:43.430 --> 0:07:45.790 I said, you know, Ray said, you're a deliverer. I 0:07:45.790 --> 0:07:48.390 need deliverer right now. And I'm telling you, I didn't 0:07:48.390 --> 0:07:50.830 hardly get the words out of my mouth when I 0:07:50.870 --> 0:07:55.470 saw a light. And then I heard, whoop, whoop, whoop. 0:07:55.790 --> 0:08:00.270 Now they used to send me running. It put a smile. 0:08:01.670 --> 0:08:05.270 on my face. I turned around and looked. And them 0:08:05.270 --> 0:08:08.950 boys scattered like roaches. When you turn on the lights. 0:08:09.390 --> 0:08:13.590 Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about. Man, 0:08:13.590 --> 0:08:15.710 I'm so happy. And so he pulls up. He says, 0:08:15.710 --> 0:08:18.190 what are you doing, sir? I said, I'm going to hooks. 0:08:18.190 --> 0:08:20.590 I got my Bible. He called me. He wants to 0:08:20.590 --> 0:08:22.830 be saved. And so I'm going to save hook. Do 0:08:22.830 --> 0:08:25.710 you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior? 0:08:26.230 --> 0:08:29.430 And he said, go on, save hook. And he turned 0:08:29.430 --> 0:08:31.910 on around and moved. So then I get up to 0:08:31.910 --> 0:08:34.950 where hook lives. Now there's three floors and you would 0:08:34.950 --> 0:08:37.310 think he lives at the first floor. You think the 0:08:37.309 --> 0:08:40.270 bottom bell was his second third? It wasn't that way. 0:08:40.350 --> 0:08:43.390 I hit the bottom bell, and, uh, as I hit 0:08:43.390 --> 0:08:45.390 the bottom bell, I'm ringing and ringing and ringing it 0:08:45.390 --> 0:08:51.310 and nothing's happening. Then I hear, step back now. Wasn't loud. 0:08:51.309 --> 0:08:55.309 It was in my head. Step back. And I stepped back. 0:08:55.590 --> 0:08:58.830 When I step back, the woman on the third floor 0:08:59.030 --> 0:09:02.180 whose bell I was ringing. That was the first one 0:09:02.500 --> 0:09:05.780 had slammed up her window and the pane fell out 0:09:05.780 --> 0:09:12.100 and the pane fell where I was standing. She called 0:09:12.100 --> 0:09:14.580 me a whole lot of names and I was blessing God. 0:09:14.580 --> 0:09:18.819 Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah! You saved me, Lord. Twice tonight. 0:09:18.860 --> 0:09:23.020 Twice tonight. And I went in. LED. Hooked to Christ. LED. 0:09:23.020 --> 0:09:25.100 Carrying the Christ. I don't remember what his other girlfriend's 0:09:25.100 --> 0:09:27.589 name led. All three of them to Christ. It's 5 0:09:27.590 --> 0:09:31.660 or 6:00 in the morning. I'm happy because I led 0:09:31.660 --> 0:09:34.660 three people to Christ tonight, and God brought me through 0:09:34.660 --> 0:09:37.540 all of that because he was more concerned about their 0:09:37.540 --> 0:09:42.179 salvation than I was. And I go back to the 0:09:42.220 --> 0:09:45.220 to the gospel buggy. I said, let me see. I 0:09:45.340 --> 0:09:50.660 turned the key. It started right up. I journal, I 0:09:50.700 --> 0:09:53.060 journal from the first day. I've got all my journals. 0:09:53.059 --> 0:09:57.980 I got 42 journals, I journal. God, I want to 0:09:57.980 --> 0:10:00.460 get the fear out of me. Today. We say the 0:10:00.500 --> 0:10:03.180 punk out of us. He knew the way to do 0:10:03.179 --> 0:10:06.380 it was to put me in a situation where I 0:10:06.380 --> 0:10:10.780 had no help but him. And from that day forward, 0:10:10.780 --> 0:10:14.900 I ain't never scared. I ain't never scared, I ain't 0:10:14.900 --> 0:10:18.140 never scared. I come to Chicago, I ain't know what 0:10:18.140 --> 0:10:22.380 was happening here. I walked up into gang areas, talk 0:10:22.380 --> 0:10:26.939 to gang bangers, going to crack houses. It don't matter 0:10:26.940 --> 0:10:30.380 because I ain't never scared like my mama used to say. 0:10:30.380 --> 0:10:36.020 They can kill me but they can't eat me. And 0:10:36.020 --> 0:10:38.180 if they eat me, I'll leave a bad taste in 0:10:38.179 --> 0:10:42.300 their mouth. And here's what God has done. He's saying, 0:10:42.300 --> 0:10:45.260 look what God has done in my car. And so now, 0:10:45.300 --> 0:10:47.699 as a pastor, let me just tell you, I ain't 0:10:47.700 --> 0:10:50.740 never scared. Why? Because God gets the devil off of 0:10:50.740 --> 0:10:54.140 my back. Yeah, and my enemy's out of my face 0:10:54.380 --> 0:10:58.380 and my bills off my mind and ignorant folk off 0:10:58.380 --> 0:11:02.340 my job. Adult dog kids out of my house and 0:11:02.340 --> 0:11:09.020 poor church members out of my church. Then he says, 0:11:09.020 --> 0:11:11.740 I ain't never scared. 0:11:14.500 --> 0:11:17.620 You're listening to Treasure Truth from Pastor Ford. A message 0:11:17.620 --> 0:11:20.980 from Psalm 27. I ain't never scared we're going to 0:11:20.980 --> 0:11:23.500 get back to this teaching in just one moment. I 0:11:23.500 --> 0:11:25.939 know over these summer months, many of us might be traveling. 0:11:25.940 --> 0:11:28.300 Maybe you've got a summer vacation coming up, but you 0:11:28.300 --> 0:11:30.699 don't want to miss Pastor Ford's teaching if you've not 0:11:30.740 --> 0:11:33.740 done so before, go get the Moody Radio app. That way, 0:11:33.740 --> 0:11:36.740 you can listen to treasure, truth, and many other moody 0:11:36.780 --> 0:11:42.059 produced programs and music streaming stations whenever you want. The 0:11:42.059 --> 0:11:44.940 app is free, and it's available for your iPhone, iPad, 0:11:44.940 --> 0:11:49.780 or your Android phone or tablet. Just come to our website, npr.org. 0:11:49.820 --> 0:11:51.460 Click on the app button at the bottom of the 0:11:51.460 --> 0:11:54.700 home page for more info. Again, it's Treasure Truth Radio. 0:11:55.740 --> 0:11:57.860 Back to the message. Here's Pastor Ford. 0:11:58.540 --> 0:12:01.220 Doctor John Adolf tells a the story. I gotta repeat, 0:12:01.940 --> 0:12:06.179 he says, uh, sister said, can you do my house blessing? 0:12:06.300 --> 0:12:09.460 He said, sure. He goes, and there's a couple people there, 0:12:09.620 --> 0:12:12.140 you know, it's afternoon. And so there are friends and 0:12:12.140 --> 0:12:15.420 family and, you know, church folk there, and they're eating 0:12:15.420 --> 0:12:18.620 little finger food and everything. And he said, he looks 0:12:18.620 --> 0:12:21.300 and on the coffee table he sees the picture of 0:12:21.300 --> 0:12:24.980 a very handsome man. So nobody asked. And he said, 0:12:24.980 --> 0:12:27.260 but he a pastor. And so he could ask some 0:12:27.260 --> 0:12:30.140 things other people wouldn't ask. He said, who is that? 0:12:30.140 --> 0:12:32.620 Is that your boo? Because if it is now, you 0:12:32.620 --> 0:12:35.820 can't let him move into your new house. She said, 0:12:35.820 --> 0:12:36.339 oh no no no. 0:12:36.340 --> 0:12:37.500 No no no no no no. 0:12:39.020 --> 0:12:43.819 She said, that's my ex. That's your ex-husband. That's my ex. 0:12:44.179 --> 0:12:47.140 Wait a minute. Why do you have a picture? He 0:12:47.140 --> 0:12:49.380 said he was confused. He said he looked. She had 0:12:49.380 --> 0:12:57.020 a jacuzzi, pool, Burberry carpet, big 60 inch flat screen 0:12:57.020 --> 0:13:00.500 TV and a picture of her ex just didn't go together. 0:13:01.700 --> 0:13:04.100 He said, tell me the story. Now I want, she said. 0:13:04.460 --> 0:13:09.020 He left me and my three kids. Abandoned us. And 0:13:09.020 --> 0:13:13.059 things went from bad to worse so that we eventually, 0:13:13.059 --> 0:13:16.220 because he kept the house, put us out. Eventually we 0:13:16.220 --> 0:13:19.860 were in a homeless shelter. But when he dropped me, 0:13:20.059 --> 0:13:24.380 it was then that Jesus picked me up. She said. 0:13:24.420 --> 0:13:26.460 And when he picked me up, he let me know. 0:13:26.460 --> 0:13:29.460 He won't do me that way. Because can't nobody do 0:13:29.460 --> 0:13:33.140 me like Jesus. Can't nobody. Do you like the Lord? Yeah. 0:13:33.179 --> 0:13:35.780 Pick you up, turn you around, place your feet on 0:13:35.780 --> 0:13:38.700 solid ground. Then she said, she said. And so then 0:13:38.700 --> 0:13:42.260 I went to school and I struggled to raise my 0:13:42.260 --> 0:13:45.340 kids and go to school. And I did it from 0:13:45.460 --> 0:13:50.099 a homeless shelter. And for three years I struggled and struggled. 0:13:50.100 --> 0:13:53.780 But I got my RN and I started saving my money. 0:13:53.780 --> 0:13:56.780 They let me stay. I stayed there five years, then 0:13:56.780 --> 0:13:58.860 got me an apartment, and then I was in an 0:13:58.860 --> 0:14:01.540 apartment for a year. I had saved up enough money 0:14:01.540 --> 0:14:05.220 to buy me this house, and when I got this house, 0:14:05.220 --> 0:14:08.380 I told my three kids, I'm putting the picture of 0:14:08.380 --> 0:14:12.820 your daddy right there on the coffee table to always 0:14:12.820 --> 0:14:18.380 remind me that if he hadn't dropped me, Jesus never 0:14:18.380 --> 0:14:21.380 could've picked me up because I had my eyes on 0:14:21.380 --> 0:14:26.020 him rather than on him. And now I'm serving the 0:14:26.020 --> 0:14:30.060 man who treats me better than any man ever did. 0:14:30.300 --> 0:14:34.060 And I guarantee you, every time I look at. Thank you, 0:14:34.060 --> 0:14:37.260 Jesus that I married that man. Thank you Jesus that 0:14:37.260 --> 0:14:40.060 that man dropped me. And thank you, Lord, that you 0:14:40.060 --> 0:14:44.740 helped me to realize I don't need anybody but you. 0:14:45.860 --> 0:14:48.700 That's it. Conquest in the past. Now, I got some 0:14:48.700 --> 0:14:51.980 questions for you. You trippin about a job? Didn't he 0:14:51.980 --> 0:14:54.420 get you the last job? Then can't he get you 0:14:54.420 --> 0:14:58.060 another job? Because if he did it back, then he 0:14:58.060 --> 0:15:03.450 can do it now. Out same God right now. He 0:15:03.490 --> 0:15:07.530 healed you before. He can heal you again. He got 0:15:07.530 --> 0:15:15.330 you your last boo. How that sound? The storehouses of 0:15:15.330 --> 0:15:24.730 heaven are full. Except for booze. Mhm. And I already 0:15:24.730 --> 0:15:27.250 told you who you want. Ladies. Who you want? You 0:15:27.250 --> 0:15:32.130 want a man who will give anything to make you 0:15:32.170 --> 0:15:38.610 his everything. That's what you want. Here's the last one. 0:15:38.610 --> 0:15:40.770 And I'm done. Here's the last one. He says I 0:15:40.770 --> 0:15:44.450 ain't never scared. Celebration about Yahweh. I ain't never scared. 0:15:44.490 --> 0:15:48.130 Conquest from Yahweh. And in other words, he's looking back. I, 0:15:48.130 --> 0:15:50.890 I gotta say it because remember what David did when 0:15:50.890 --> 0:15:53.290 he was fighting Goliath? What did he do? He looked back. 0:15:53.650 --> 0:15:57.570 He said, I'll defeat this uncircumcised Philistine. How how will 0:15:57.570 --> 0:16:01.210 you do that? Because I defeated the lion and the bear. 0:16:01.610 --> 0:16:04.050 See what he did? He went back and said he 0:16:04.050 --> 0:16:07.650 did it for me back there. A lion and a bear. 0:16:08.090 --> 0:16:13.370 Who is this uncircumcised Philistine man? That's what we need 0:16:13.530 --> 0:16:17.370 to do. That's what we need. Amen. That's what we need. 0:16:17.850 --> 0:16:22.370 Here's the last one. His confidence about God. Verse three. 0:16:22.530 --> 0:16:24.530 His confidence about God. This is what he says. This 0:16:24.530 --> 0:16:26.690 is all we got time for today. Though a host 0:16:26.690 --> 0:16:30.930 should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though 0:16:31.010 --> 0:16:34.850 war shall rise against me, in this will I be confident. See, 0:16:34.850 --> 0:16:42.490 he's saying, I'm confident, man. I'm confident about God. Oh, okay. 0:16:42.730 --> 0:16:45.010 Can I expedite this? Let me let me expedite this. 0:16:45.010 --> 0:16:47.970 Let me expedite this. Imma expedite this okay. Watch this, 0:16:48.010 --> 0:16:51.810 watch this. Here's what he's saying. Why am I confident? 0:16:51.810 --> 0:16:54.130 Verse one. Because of what he does in the present. 0:16:54.130 --> 0:16:55.930 Verse two, what he does in the past. Now he's 0:16:55.930 --> 0:16:57.970 saying if he did it in the past and he's 0:16:57.970 --> 0:16:59.770 doing it in the present, what makes you think he's 0:16:59.770 --> 0:17:01.130 going to stop now? He's going to do it in 0:17:01.130 --> 0:17:04.210 the future. So I'm walking toward my future, and I'm 0:17:04.210 --> 0:17:09.250 walking with confidence because I know I know what God does. Okay, okay, 0:17:09.290 --> 0:17:11.770 here it is. I get you to understand it and 0:17:11.770 --> 0:17:15.890 then we'll go home. Here it is. I'm thinking of 0:17:15.890 --> 0:17:20.410 five numbers. Now, I'm not going to tell you what 0:17:20.410 --> 0:17:23.330 my fifth number is. I want to see if you 0:17:23.330 --> 0:17:35.570 could tell me. Three, six, nine, 12, 15. I was 0:17:35.570 --> 0:17:40.970 going to say 681. No, I wasn't, because what did 0:17:40.970 --> 0:17:45.170 I do? Multiples of three. I said, wait a minute. 0:17:45.170 --> 0:17:47.330 Watch this now. Can can I, I don't I don't 0:17:47.330 --> 0:17:52.810 want to explain this. I set it up in a pattern, 0:17:54.250 --> 0:18:00.450 a pattern that is repeatable so that it's so set 0:18:01.010 --> 0:18:03.970 that I don't need to tell you where I'm going. 0:18:04.290 --> 0:18:07.010 You can tell me by the pattern. Did you get 0:18:07.010 --> 0:18:10.330 it that God has set up a pattern in your life? 0:18:10.570 --> 0:18:13.250 He has done things for you and for me that 0:18:13.250 --> 0:18:16.970 nobody else could do. And he set up the pattern 0:18:16.970 --> 0:18:20.010 and he says, listen, you know, I'm going to take 0:18:20.010 --> 0:18:22.730 care of you in the future because I took care 0:18:22.730 --> 0:18:24.970 of you in the past. I'm taking care of you, 0:18:24.970 --> 0:18:29.250 of the present. What makes you think if your salvation 0:18:29.890 --> 0:18:34.170 is justification in the past, sanctification in the present, and 0:18:34.170 --> 0:18:37.369 glorification in the what future? Let me read it to you. 0:18:37.410 --> 0:18:41.490 Romans 829. What does he say? Them who? He justified them. 0:18:41.490 --> 0:18:46.170 He also foreknew them. He foreknew them, he also glorified. 0:18:46.290 --> 0:18:49.889 Glorified is past tense. God, why do you tell me 0:18:50.130 --> 0:18:52.810 about the future tense of my salvation in the past tense? 0:18:52.810 --> 0:18:58.050 Because when I look at it, it's already done. It's 0:18:58.050 --> 0:19:03.930 already done. Up. It's already done. Yeah. You can be 0:19:03.930 --> 0:19:10.889 confident about your future because it's already done. It's already done. 0:19:11.770 --> 0:19:14.490 And and and so am I. Because when you look 0:19:14.490 --> 0:19:18.330 at what he's telling us, listen, he's saying I ain't 0:19:18.330 --> 0:19:21.610 never scared. Uh, but but here, here, here it is. 0:19:21.970 --> 0:19:26.170 You know, and I know that immediately this is talking 0:19:26.170 --> 0:19:30.129 about David. Ultimately, it's pointing to the Lord and Savior 0:19:30.130 --> 0:19:33.490 Jesus Christ. When he says, the Lord is my light. 0:19:33.490 --> 0:19:36.770 This is the first time in all of Scripture we're 0:19:36.770 --> 0:19:40.369 almost halfway through the Bible when he uses the word 0:19:40.369 --> 0:19:44.690 light as a metaphor for God first time. Now it's 0:19:44.690 --> 0:19:48.410 called the law of first mention. The first time means something. 0:19:48.410 --> 0:19:53.530 The Lord is my light. John 812 Jesus Christ is 0:19:53.530 --> 0:19:58.170 the light of the world, that we are stumbling in 0:19:58.170 --> 0:20:03.090 darkness without the light. And those of us who have him. 0:20:03.090 --> 0:20:05.610 Because when he says salvation, he's not talking about justification. 0:20:05.609 --> 0:20:09.090 He's talking about sanctification, that he illuminates us and he 0:20:09.090 --> 0:20:14.050 allows us to understand that he is all we have, 0:20:14.250 --> 0:20:17.730 but he is all we need. Have you found that 0:20:17.730 --> 0:20:21.889 out yet? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Uh, II worship him and 0:20:21.890 --> 0:20:25.330 serve him because his bond is love. His burden is light. 0:20:25.369 --> 0:20:29.090 His goal for me is abundant life. And so he 0:20:29.090 --> 0:20:31.570 is the one who is the power of the powerful, 0:20:31.570 --> 0:20:35.130 the Ancient of Days, the ruler of ruler, the leaders 0:20:35.130 --> 0:20:38.770 of leaders. And, uh, he is the one that we need. 0:20:38.810 --> 0:20:41.690 He's the one who is, who was and who is 0:20:41.690 --> 0:20:44.970 to come. And so you need to know that you 0:20:44.970 --> 0:20:48.410 ain't never got to be scared. Why? Because when you fall, 0:20:48.450 --> 0:20:52.010 he lifts you up. And when you fail, he forgives you. 0:20:52.010 --> 0:20:55.810 When you're weak, he's your strength. When you're lost, he's 0:20:55.810 --> 0:20:59.960 the way. When you're afraid. He's your courage. When you stumble. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.440 He steadies you when you're hurt. He heals you. When 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:07.320 you're broken. He mends you. When you're blind. He leads you. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.920 When you're hungry. He feeds you. When you face trials. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.520 He's with you. When you face persecution. He shields you. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:18.040 When you face problems, he comforts you. When you face loss, 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:21.160 he provides for you. When you face death, he'll be 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:26.119 there to carry you home. Absent from the body. Present 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.400 with the Lord. And so he is the God who 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:35.200 is my light and my salvation, my strength, in whom 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:43.000 I trust. I never scared, I never scared. Father, we 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.120 pray that you'll bless the truth to our hearts, for 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:46.960 Christ's sake. 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.960 Amen. Well, can you say with Pastor Ford that God 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:55.400 is your light and your salvation? If the answer is no, 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.000 you can change that right now by turning your life 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:05.200 over to Christ. Just call 888. That's one 888. Need him. 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.320 You're listening to Treasure Truth. You can find us online 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:12.920 at Treasure Truth Radio.com. Well, it's no exaggeration to say 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:16.720 that we're experiencing a marriage crisis in our culture. 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