Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000100
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01:01 THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. (MUSIC) 01:11 THE WHOLE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS IN THE CONTEXT OF 01:14 THIS IS A BATTLE. WE'RE AT WAR WITH THE ENEMY. 01:21 FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:24 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:26 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 01:29 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:33 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:41 YOU KNOW, IN THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH WE BELIEVE IN 01:43 SOMETHING CALLED THE GREAT CONTROVERSY. 01:46 AND THAT'S A WORD THAT SOMETIMES IS USED TO EXPLAIN THAT THERE IS 01:52 A COSMIC CONFLICT - THERE IS A BATTLE RAGING BETWEEN 01:56 THE POWERS OF GOOD AND EVIL. BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE DEVIL. 02:01 BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS - GOOD AND EVIL. 02:04 AND IT'S BEING WAGED - IT'S BEING FOUGHT OUT IN 02:07 EVERY PERSON'S HEART. AND OUR MESSAGE 02:10 THIS MORNING IS DEALING WITH A DEDICATED SOLDIER. 02:15 SOME OF YOU HAVE READ IN THE BIBLE ABOUT GOD'S MIGHTY MEN. 02:19 THESE MIGHTY MEN STARTED OUT AS SORT OF A MOTLEY CREW OF RAGTAG 02:26 DISGRUNTLED PEOPLE AND HE TURNED THEM INTO AN ARMY. 02:31 YOU READ THERE IN 1 SAMUEL 22, VERSE 2. 02:34 IT SAYS, "EVERYONE WHO WAS IN DISTRESS, AND EVERYONE WHO WAS 02:38 IN DEBT, AND EVERYBODY WHO WAS DISCONTENTED GATHERED TO HIM." 02:44 I DON'T KNOW THAT I'D WANT TO RECRUIT A CREW LIKE THAT. 02:48 "AND HE BECAME A CAPTAIN OVER THEM. 02:50 AND THERE WERE ABOUT 400 MEN." 02:52 WELL, DAVID WAS SUCH A GOOD LEADER THAT HE TOOK THIS RAGTAG 03:00 CREW - KIND OF THE OFFSCOURING OF THE PEOPLE AMONG THAT DAY AND 03:04 ALL THESE ZEALOTS AND PEOPLE IN DEBT AND MAYBE A FEW HOMELESS 03:09 FOLK AND HE TOOK THEM AND HE TRAINED THEM AND THEY BECAME A 03:13 CRACK FIGHTING FORCE AND THEY WERE LATER 03:15 - MANY OF THESE SAME CHARACTERS - KNOWN AS DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN. 03:19 NOW, BEFORE I GO FARTHER TALKING ABOUT A DEDICATED SOLDIER, 03:23 I WANT YOU TO TURN WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES 03:24 - WE'RE GOING TO READ A STORY. IT'S A FAMILIAR STORY. 03:26 2 SAMUEL 11. TURN WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES TO THE SECOND BOOK 03:31 OF SAMUEL, CHAPTER 11 AND WE'LL START WITH VERSE 1. 03:40 "AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR, AT THE TIME 03:44 WHEN KINGS GO OUT TO BATTLE, THAT DAVID SENT JOAB" - THAT'S 03:48 THE GENERAL - "AND HIS SERVANTS WITH HIM" - THAT'S THE ARMY - 03:51 "AND ALL ISRAEL; AND THEY DESTROYED THE PEOPLE OF AMMON" - 03:54 THEIR ENEMIES ACROSS THE JORDAN - THE AMMONITES 03:57 - "AND BESIEGED" - THE CAPITAL OF AMMON WAS 03:59 "RABBAH. BUT DAVID REMAINED AT JERUSALEM." 04:04 HE FIGURED, 'YOU KNOW, WE'VE WON EVERY OTHER BATTLE, I MAY AS 04:07 WELL HANG OUT AT HOME NOW, THEY DON'T NEED ME THERE.' 04:10 "AND THEN IT HAPPENED ONE EVENING THAT DAVID AROSE FROM 04:13 HIS BED AND HE WALKED ON THE ROOF OF THE KING'S HOUSE. 04:17 AND FROM THE ROOF HE SAW A WOMAN BATHING, AND THE 04:23 WOMAN WAS VERY BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD." 04:26 AND DAVID, OF COURSE, HE MADE A BIG MISTAKE - HE KEPT LOOKING. 04:28 IT WASN'T A SIN TO JUST HAPPEN TO NOTICE BY ACCIDENT - HE WAS 04:31 LOOKING INTO SOMEONE'S COURTYARD AND HE SEES THIS - SHE PROBABLY 04:34 DIDN'T PLAN ON BEING SEEN. WHO KNOWS? 04:37 SHE MIGHT HAVE KNOWN THAT THE KING WALKED ON HIS ROOF EVERY 04:39 AFTERNOON AND - THE BIBLE'S NOT CLEAR ON HOW MUCH 04:42 CULPABILITY BATHSHEBA MIGHT HAVE HAD. 04:45 "BUT HE SENT AND INQUIRED ABOUT THE WOMAN. 04:48 AND SOMEONE SAID, 'IS NOT THIS BATHSHEBA, THE DAUGHTER OF 04:52 ELIAM, THE WIFE OF URIAH THE HITTITE? 04:56 AND DAVID SENT MESSENGERS" - VERSE 4 - "AND TOOK HER; 05:00 AND SHE CAME TO HIM, AND HE LIE WITH HER, FOR SHE 05:04 WAS CLEANSED FROM HER IMPURITY;" - AND THEN "THE WOMAN CONCEIVED. 05:10 SO SHE SENT AND TOLD DAVID, 'I AM WITH CHILD.' 05:15 THEN DAVID SENT TO JOAB, SAYING, 'SEND ME URIAH THE HITTITE" 05:19 - QUICKLY! URIAH NEEDS SOME R&R AT HOME WITH HIS WIFE 05:23 - SO NOBODY WILL ASK QUESTIONS - IS WHAT HE'S THINKING. 05:26 "DAVID SENT TO JOAB SAYING, 'SEND ME URIAH THE HITTITE' AND 05:31 JOAB SENT URIAH TO DAVID. WHEN URIAH HAD COME TO HIM, 05:35 DAVID ASKED JOAB - HE ASKED HOW JOAB THE GENERAL WAS DOING, 05:40 AND HOW THE PEOPLE WERE DOING, AND HOW THE WAR PROSPERED." 05:43 - UNDER THE PRETENSE OF WANTING A REPORT. 05:46 HE COULD HAVE SENT A PRIVATE - JOAB IS - RATHER URIAH 05:48 IS ONE OF HIS MIGHTY MEN. USUALLY YOU DON'T SEND SOMEONE 05:52 OF THAT STATURE, YOU SEND A MESSENGER WITH A REPORT, BUT - 05:54 HE SAYS, 'ALL RIGHT, WELL I CAN TELL YOU HOW THINGS ARE GOING.' 05:58 AND THEN AFTER HE REPORTS, DAVID SAYS TO URIAH, 'GO ON DOWN TO 06:01 YOUR HOUSE AND WASH YOUR FEET. GO RELAX AT HOME. 06:05 WITH YOUR WIFE.' "SO URIAH DEPARTED FROM THE 06:09 KING'S HOUSE AND A GIFT OF FOOD FROM THE KING FOLLOWED HIM." 06:13 HE SAYS, 'YOU KNOW, I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU'VE GOT FOOD 06:15 IN THE REFRIGERATOR.' HE WANTED TO CREATE AN 06:17 ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYTHING THAT HE THOUGHT SHOULD HAPPEN 06:20 WOULD HAPPEN. BUT - VERSE 9 - "URIAH SLEPT AT 06:26 THE DOOR OF THE KING'S HOUSE WITH ALL THE SERVANTS OF HIS 06:29 LORD AND DID NOT GO TO HIS HOUSE. 06:34 AND WHEN THEY TOLD DAVID, SAYING, 'URIAH DID NOT GO TO HIS 06:37 HOUSE, DAVID SAID TO URIAH, 'DID YOU NOT COME FROM 06:41 YOUR JOURNEY.'" HE IS MYSTIFIED. 06:44 'WHY DID YOU NOT GO TO YOUR HOUSE?' 06:48 AND THIS IS THE ONE TIME URIAH SPEAKS - HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS, 06:52 "AND URIAH SAID TO DAVID, 'THE ARK AND ISRAEL AND JUDAH ARE 06:56 DWELLING IN TENTS AND MY LORD JOAB AND THE SERVANTS OF MY LORD 07:00 ARE ENCAMPED IN THE OPEN FIELDS. SHALL I THEN GO TO MY HOUSE 07:05 AND EAT AND DRINK AND LIE WITH MY WIFE? AS YOU LIVE, 07:09 AND AS YOUR SOUL LIVES, I WILL NOT DO THIS THING." 07:12 NOW, I SHOULD PROBABLY PAUSE HERE, IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW, 07:17 AND MENTION THAT IT WAS CUSTOMARY IN BIBLE TIMES, THAT 07:20 WHEN THEY WERE ENGAGED IN A BATTLE THAT THE MEN WOULD OFTEN 07:25 MAKE A VOW AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW' - THEY BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS 07:30 SOME ADDED VIRILITY - SOME ADDED FIGHT AND POWER IF THEY WOULD 07:37 ABSTAIN FROM MARITAL RELATIONS. SO, EVIDENTLY, URIAH HAD MADE A 07:42 VOW WITH HIS MEN AND HE'S GOING TO KEEP THE VOW. 07:47 IT SEEMS LIKE IN SOME WAYS HE, AT THIS TIME, WAS MORE OF A MAN 07:51 THAN HIS KING, DAVID. HE SAYS, 'I'LL NOT DO THIS THING. 07:56 I'M NOT GOING TO VIOLATE THIS VOW.' 07:58 "AND THEN DAVID SAID TO URIAH, 'WAIT HERE TODAY ALSO, AND THEN 08:02 TOMORROW I'LL LET YOU DEPART.'" IN OTHER WORDS, 'I'VE GOT THAT 08:05 MESSAGE TO SEND AND I'M NOT READY TO SEND IT SO GIVE ME 08:07 ANOTHER DAY.' "SO URIAH REMAINED IN JERUSALEM 08:13 THAT DAY AND THE NEXT." DAVID KEEPS WAITING. 08:17 "NOW WHEN DAVID CALLED HIM HE ATE AND DRANK BEFORE HIM; AND 08:22 HE" - DAVID - "MADE HIM" - URIAH - "DRUNK." 08:25 I DON'T THINK HE HELD HIM DOWN AND FORCED THE WINE DOWN HIS 08:29 THROAT, BUT HE GAVE HIM WINE THAT MAYBE HE THOUGHT WAS JUST 08:32 NORMAL - GRAPE JUICE OR WITH SOME VERY MILD FERMENTATION - 08:38 AND HE GAVE HIM THE STRONG STUFF AND SAID, 'HERE, LET'S DRINK TO 08:41 THE SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD.' AND TO BE POLITE HE DRANK 08:45 A LITTLE BIT. AND HE SAID, 'NOW LET'S DRINK TO..." 08:46 AND HE KEPT TOASTING AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW URIAH IS TIPSY. 08:50 HE'S OBEYING THE KING AND HE DID WHAT HE WAS TOLD AND HE 08:54 GETS HIM DRUNK. "AND HE MADE HIM DRINK AND AT 08:59 EVENING HE WENT OUT TO LIE ON HIS BED WITH THE SERVANTS OF HIS 09:02 LORD, BUT HE DID NOT GO TO HIS HOUSE." 09:06 HE WENT TO WHERE DAVID'S GUARD SLEPT IN THE BARRACKS AND HE 09:11 WOULDN'T GO TO HIS HOUSE AROUND THE CORNER. 09:13 FINALLY DAVID, EXASPERATED - HE WRITES A LETTER AND IN THE 09:18 LETTER IT SAYS, "SET URIAH IN THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOTTEST 09:23 BATTLE AND RETREAT FROM HIM THAT HE MIGHT BE STRUCK DOWN 09:27 AND DIE." NOT JUST WOUNDED. 09:30 YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS MORTAL, THAT IT IS FATAL. 09:35 AND IN THE PROCESS YOU MIGHT LOSE SOME OTHER SOLDIERS, 09:38 BUT YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT URIAH DIES. 09:40 THAT'S WHAT'S IMPLICATED HERE. SO, HE BRINGS THIS MESSAGE - AND 09:45 BOY, THAT'S KIND OF COLD BLOODED - TO SEND THE MESSAGE BY URIAH. 09:52 HE FOLDS IT UP AND HE SEALS IT AND HE SAYS, 09:53 'THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - SOME BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS.' 09:55 AND HE KNEW HE COULD TRUST URIAH SO MUCH HE WOULD NOT BREAK THE 09:59 SEAL AND PEEK AT THE BATTLE PLANS. 10:02 WELL, THAT'S A PRETTY FAHFUL SOLDIER. 10:05 YOU COULD TRUST HIM TO CARRY HIS OWN DEATH WARRANT AND THAT HE 10:07 WON'T LOOK AT IT. WOW. 10:10 "SO IT HAPPENED, WHILE JOAB BESIEGED THE CITY, THAT HE 10:15 ASSIGNED URIAH TO THE PLACE WHERE HE KNEW 10:17 VALIANT MEN WERE." - THE HARDEST FIGHTERS - 10:20 AND HE APPOINTS HIM THIS SUICIDE MISSION. 10:23 "AND THE MEN OF THE CITY CAME OUT AND FOUGHT WITH JOAB AND 10:27 SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SERVANTS OF DAVID FELL AND URIAH 10:30 THE HITTITE DIED ALSO. THEN JOAB SENT AND TOLD DAVID, 10:35 ALL THINGS CONCERNING THE WAR." AND ULTIMATELY REPORTS THAT 10:40 URIAH THE HITTITE HAD BEEN SLAIN. 10:43 NOW, GOING BACK TO OUR STUDY, I WANT TO EVALUATE WHAT WE JUST 10:48 READ BECAUSE WE'RE CONSIDERING, RIGHT NOW, A VERY 10:52 DEDICATED SOLDIER. MOST PEOPLE READ THIS STORY AND 10:57 THEY TALK ABOUT TEMPTATION AND THEY TALK ABOUT DAVID AND THEY 10:59 TALK ABOUT FORGIVENESS AND - I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE SOLDIER. 11:03 I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE HERO OF THE STORY. 11:06 IT'S NOT DAVID AND IT'S NOT JOAB, AND IT'S NOT BATHSHEBA. 11:10 THE HERO OF THE STORY IS URIAH. BY THE WAY, 11:14 YOU KNOW WHAT URIAH MEANS? IT MEANS FIRE OF GOD. 11:18 HIS NAME MEANS FIRE OF GOD. 11:21 AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY GAVE THAT TO HIM BECAUSE OF HIS 11:22 ATTITUDE OR IF THAT'S THE NAME HIS PARENTS GAVE HIM. 11:24 HE WAS ONE OF DAVID'S MIGHTY MEN. 11:27 YOU REMEMBER READING THAT STORY IN THE BIBLE ABOUT WHEN DAVID 11:30 SAID - HE'S HIDING OUT IN THE CAVE OF ADDULAM - AND THEY'RE 11:35 DRINKING THIS SULPHUR WATER THAT WAS IN THAT REGION OF JUDEA - 11:39 THAT JUST TASTES LIKE ROTTEN EGGS - AND DAVID WHIMSICALLY 11:43 SAYS TO HIMSELF - REMEMBERING WHEN HE WAS A SHEPHERD BOY AND 11:47 HE COULD DRINK ALL THE WATER HE WANTED FROM THAT WELL OF 11:49 BETHLEHEM AND IT WAS ALWAYS COLD AND CLEAN AND CLEAR. 11:53 AND WITH LONGING HE JUST SAYS OUT LOUD, 'OH, IF I COULD JUST 11:56 HAVE SOME OF THAT WATER FROM THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM." 11:59 AND THREE OF HIS MIGHTY MEN HEARD HIM SAY THAT - ONE OF THEM 12:02 MAY WELL HAVE BEEN URIAH - THEY THEN TOOK OFF, 12:05 MAKE AN ALL-NIGHT JOURNEY - THEY GO TO BETHLEHEM WHERE 12:07 THE PHILISTINES ARE OCCUPYING BETHLEHEM AND THEY'VE GOT 12:10 A GARRISON OF SOLDIERS THERE. AND THESE THREE MIGHTY MEN SNEAK 12:14 IN DURING THE NIGHT AND THEY LOWER DOWN THIS WATER SKIN TO 12:19 FILL IT WITH WATER FROM THE WELL OF BETHLEHEM - JUST BECAUSE THEY 12:21 WANTED TO PLEASE THEIR GENERAL, DAVID. AND AS THEY'RE GETTING 12:27 IT, PRETTY SOON SOME OF THE PHILISTINES REALIZE WHO THEY ARE 12:30 AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING THERE AND A FIGHT BREAKS OUT AND THEY 12:33 FIGHT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE PHILISTINES' GARRISON TRYING 12:36 TO PROTECT THIS SKIN OF WATER WITH THEIR LIVES. 12:40 AND THEY MAKE IT OUT AND THEY HEAD BACK DOWN SOUTH INTO THE 12:43 JUDEAN DESERT WHERE DAVID IS IN THIS CAVE AND THEY BRING HIM - 12:48 LAID THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE TO BRING THEIR CAPTAIN THIS WATER. 12:54 AND YOU KNOW, FOR THE CHRISTIAN, IT SAYS, 'FIND OUT 12:56 WHAT BEST PLEASES THE LORD.' IF WE'RE SOLDIERS FOR JESUS, 13:00 IF WE KNOW THAT THE LORD WANTS SOMETHING OR IF HE HAS A 13:03 PREFERENCE, AND HE WANTS A DRINK OF WATER FROM BETHLEHEM - IF HE 13:07 WANTS OUR PRESENCE, WE LOVE HIM SO MUCH WE'LL DO ANYTHING. 13:12 WE'LL FIGHT THROUGH THE GARRISONS OF THE PHILISTINES. 13:14 WE'LL RIDE ALL NIGHT IN THE RAIN, WE'LL DO WHATEVER OUR 13:17 COMMANDER WANTS. THAT'S ONE OF THE 13:19 CHARACTERISTICS OF A LOYAL, DEDICATED SOLDIER, AMEN? 13:22 AND THIS IS THE KIND OF MAN THAT URIAH WAS. 13:27 IT MAKES IT ALL THE MORE TERRIBLE WHAT DAVID DID TO 13:29 SOMEONE THAT WAS SO LOYAL - SOMEONE SO DEDICATED. 13:35 NOW, EVERY CHRISTIAN IS A SOLDIER. 13:38 WE ARE INVOLVED IN WAR. 1 TIMOTHY 1:18. 13:42 PAUL SAYS, "THIS CHARGE I COMMIT TO YOU, SON TIMOTHY, 13:46 ACCORDING TO THE PROPHECIES PREVIOUSLY MADE 13:48 CONCERNING YOU, THAT BY THEM YOU MIGHT WAGE THE GOOD WARFARE." 13:54 DOES GOOD WARFARE SOUND LIKE AN OXYMORON TO YOU? 13:58 WAR IS UGLY. WAR IS BRUTAL. TERRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN IN WAR. 14:04 IT SEEMS INDISCRIMINATE. IT SEEMS WITHOUT MERCY. 14:07 AND SO THAT HE SHOULD SAY THE GOOD WARFARE - IF THERE WAS ANY 14:12 GOOD WAR, IT'S THE COMBAT OF THE CHRISTIAN FOR CHRIST. 14:17 NOW I WANTED TO GO TO THE STATEMENT THAT URIAH MAKES AND 14:20 LOOK AT IT MORE CLOSELY. I TOLD YOU, HE ONLY SPEAKS ONCE. 14:23 THIS IS AGAIN, BACK IN 2 SAMUEL 11:11 - NOT TOO HARD TO REMEMBER 14:28 THAT. "AND URIAH SAID TO DAVID" - THIS DEDICATED SOLDIER 14:34 - "'THE ARK AND ISRAEL AND JUDAH ARE DWELLING IN TENTS AND MY 14:41 LORD JOAB AND THE SERVANTS OF MY LORDARE ENCAMPED IN THE OPEN 14:45 FIELDS. "SHALL I THEN GO TO MY HOUSE TO EAT AND TO DRINK AND 14:51 TO LIE WITH MY WIFE? AS YOU LIVE, AND AS YOUR SOUL 14:55 LIVES, I WILL NOT DO THIS THING.'" 14:57 LOOK AT THE PRIORITY THAT URIAH MAKES FOR THE BATTLE OF GOD. 15:04 LOOK AT THE PRIORITIES THAT HE HAS IN HIS LIFE. 15:07 WHAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT COMES OUT OF HIS MOUTH? 15:10 AND URIAH SAID TO DAVID, "THE ARK." 15:15 WHY DOES HE SAY THE ARK? WHAT WAS IN THE ARK? 15:18 THE WORD OF GOD. THE LAW OF GOD. 15:23 ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE ARK THEY HAD THE TESTIMONIES 15:26 - THE INSIDE OF THE ARK THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. WHAT REPRESENTED 15:30 THE PRESENCE OF GOD MORE THAN ANYTHING IN ISRAEL? 15:34 THE SHEKINAH GLORY WOULD APPEAR FROM TIME TO TIME BETWEEN THOSE 15:37 ANGEL WINGS ABOVE THE ARK. THAT WAS THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 15:41 SO THE FIRST THING, REALLY, OUT OF HIS MOUTH IS GOD 15:43 AND GOD'S WORD. THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO ME. 15:48 SECONDLY, HE SAYS ISRAEL. THOSE WERE THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 15:54 NOW, DO YOU NOTICE SOMETHING HERE? 15:56 THE PRIORITIES OF URIAH, THIS DEDICATED SOLDIER, ARE VERY 15:59 MUCH LIKE THE PRIORITIES THAT JESUS MAKES. 16:02 'SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD.' GOD COMES FIRST. 16:05 LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART - THAT'S THE ARK - 16:07 AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR - YOUR PEOPLE - AS YOURSELF - AND 16:10 THAT'S ISRAEL, THE SOLDIERS. THE PRIORITIES OF URIAH REALLY 16:14 ARE THE PRIORITIES OF EVERY CHRISTIAN SOLDIER. 16:17 GOD AND THE ARMY - THE PEOPLE - THE CHURCH. 16:28 THERE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CAMARADERIE. 16:29 YOU KNOW, THEY SAY THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES SOLDIERS 16:31 SUCCESSFUL IS THAT - I REMEMBER HEARING SOME INCREDIBLE STORIES 16:38 ABOUT - DURING WORLD WAR II. MY FATHER WAS IN THE AIR FORCE. 16:41 MY UNCLE HARRY - MY FATHER'S BROTHER - HE WAS IN THE MARINES. 16:45 AND HE WAS IN THE PACIFIC THEATER AND HE WAS GUADALCANAL 16:48 AND SOME OF THOSE JUST HORRIFIC BATTLES WHERE THERE WAS 16:52 TREMENDOUS CARNAGE AMONG THE MARINES. 16:54 IF YOU KNOW YOUR HISTORY YOU KNOW WE LOST A LOT OF 16:57 SOLDIERS THERE IN THOSE PACIFIC BATTLES. 17:01 AND SOMETIMES AFTER THOSE BATTLES, SOME OF THOSE SOLDIERS 17:05 WOULD RECEIVE A WOUND THAT QUALIFIED THEM TO GO BACK HOME. 17:10 BUT THEY FELT SO MUCH LOVE FOR THEIR FRIENDS, THEY SAID, 17:15 'LET ME STAY ON THE SHIP UNTIL I HEAL. 17:17 I WANT TO GO BACK AND BE WITH MY BUDDIES.' 17:19 EVEN THOUGH MANY OF THEM WERE DYING. 17:21 SOME OF THEM WERE GIVEN AWARDS AND THEY SAID, 'WE WANT YOU TO 17:23 GO HOME AND YOU CAN COLLECT YOUR AWARDS OR YOU CAN GET YOUR 17:27 MEDALS AND THEY SAID, 'NO, I DON'T WANT TO GO GET MEDALS, I 17:29 WANT TO STAY ON THE BATTLEFIELD WITH MY FRIENDS.' THEY DEVELOPED 17:33 SUCH RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE THEY WERE WATCHING THEIR FRIENDS 17:36 AROUND THEM DYING FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN. 17:38 THEY THOUGHT, 'HOW CAN I GO HOME AND GET PARADED UP AND DOWN THE 17:42 STREETS AND GET MY REWARDS AND GET MY VACATION WHEN 17:46 MY BUDDIES ARE DYING. THEY DEVELOPED A CAMARADERIE. 17:50 THEY REALIZED THEY WERE IN IT TOGETHER. THERE WAS A ONENESS 17:54 AND SO THEY WANTED TO STICK TOGETHER. THAT'S HOW URIAH FELT. 17:59 HE SAID, 'HOW CAN I COME BACK TO MY BUDDIES AND THEY SAY, 18:04 'WHERE WERE YOU?' 'OH, I WAS EATING FROM THE ROYAL 18:08 CAFETERIA AND I WENT HOME AND I SAW BATHSHEBA AND' 18:11 - WHAT WOULD THAT DO TO THE MORALE OF HIS MEN? 18:15 HE WANTED TO COME BACK AND SAY, 'YOU KNOW GUYS, ALL I COULD 18:17 THINK ABOUT WAS YOU AND I'M GOING TO WAIT TO CELEBRATE UNTIL 18:20 WE WIN THE WAR. THEN WE'LL ALL CELEBRATE. 18:24 SOME OF US WHO CLAIM TO BE SOLDIERS FOR CHRIST, WE WANT ALL 18:26 OF OUR CELEBRATION RIGHT NOW AND THE BATTLE'S NOT WON. 18:29 WE'RE ON PERMANENT R&R. AND HE GOES ON TO SAY, 18:36 "AND THE SERVANTS ARE ENCAMPED IN THE FIELDS." YOU KNOW, 18:42 THIS WORLD IS A MISSION FIELD. WE'RE ALL CAMPING. 18:46 THE SOLDIERS WERE NOT HOME, THEY WERE CAMPING. 18:49 THAT MEANS THEY WERE IN ALIEN TERRITORY, LIVING IN TENTS 18:52 - MAYBE NOT EVEN TENTS, MAYBE IN THE OPEN FIELD. 18:54 MATTER OF FACT, I THINK HE USES THAT WORD. THE ARK WAS 18:57 IN A TENT. THE SOLDIERS ARE IN THE OPEN FIELD. 19:00 THEY'RE ENCAMPED. IT'S TEMPORARY. 19:04 THIS WORLD IS AN ALIEN LAND. IS THAT RIGHT? 19:08 AND WE, AS MISSIONARIES OF GOD, - ALL OF US ARE MISSIONARIES - 19:11 WE'RE ENCAMPED IN THE OPEN FIELD. SOMETIMES, YOU 19:14 KNOW, WE GET TOO COMFORTABLE AND WE START THINKING, 'THIS IS 19:17 OUR HOME.' YOU KNOW WHY THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GOT STUCK 19:19 IN BABYLON AND GOD HAD TO CALL THEM OUT OF BABYLON? 19:23 BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN IN THIS FOREIGN LAND SO LONG 19:26 - ENEMY TERRITORY - THEY GOT COMFORTABLE THERE. 19:29 THEY BUILT THEIR HOUSES THERE. THEY GOT THEIR BUSINESSES THERE. 19:32 WHEN GOD FINALLY SAID, 'IT'S TIME TO GO.' 19:34 THEY SAID, 'AW MAN, WE DON'T HAVE TENTS ANYMORE, WE CAN'T GO. 19:38 WE'RE SETTLED IN BABYLON.' GOD SAID, 19:40 'BUT THE PLAGUES ARE GOING TO FALL ON BABYLON. 19:41 GET OUT OF BABYLON.' AND THEY SAID, 'UH, YOU KNOW, 19:43 WE'RE NOT AS MOBILE AS WE USED TO BE. 19:45 WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, FRIENDS AND FAMILY HERE,' AND THEY'D BECOME 19:49 SO COMFORTABLE IN BABYLON THAT THEY WERE NO LONGER A MOBILE 19:51 ARMY. COULD THAT HAPPEN TO GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS WHERE WE 19:55 GET SO COMFORTABLE IN THIS WORLD WE LOSE OUR MOBILITY? 19:59 ONE OF THE THINGS - AN ARMY NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO MOVE. 20:02 AND HE SAID, "AND THE SERVANTS OFY LORD ARE ENCAMPED IN THE 20:05 OPEN FIELD." 2 TIMOTHY 2:3-4. "THEREFORE YOU MUST ENDURE 20:10 HARDSHIP AS A GOOD SOLDIER OF JESUS CHRIST. 20:14 NO ONE ENGAGED IN WARFARE ENTANGLES HIMSELF WITH THE 20:17 AFFAIRS OF THIS LIFE THAT HE MIGHT PLEASE HIM WHO ENLISTED 20:20 HIM AS A SOLDIER." ARE YOU DRAFTED OR 20:24 DID YOU ENLIST? WERE YOU DRAFTED BY THE LORD? 20:29 HAS HE FORCED YOU OR DID YOU ACCEPT JESUS WILLINGLY? 20:32 HE SAID, 'COME UNTO ME' - OPEN DRAFT - OPEN ENLISTMENT. 20:38 AND SO, IF YOU SAID, 'I'M ACCEPTING YOU JESUS' 20:41 YOU'VE ENLISTED. URIAH WAS SACRIFICIAL. 20:47 YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW THAT? BECAUSE HE HAD FOUGHT SIDE BY 20:51 SIDE WITH JOAB FOR YEARS. HE KNEW ABOUT THE BATTLE GOING 20:55 ON WITH THE CAPITOL OF THE AMMONITES, RABBAH. 20:58 AND WHEN JOAB SAID, 'URIAH, I GOT A MISSION FOR YOU 21:03 AND A PLATOON OF MEN. SEE THAT GATE OVER THERE? 21:08 I WANT YOU TO STORM THAT GATE AND BREAK THROUGH.' 21:15 YOU DON'T THINK URIAH DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS A SUICIDE MISSION? 21:19 NOT ONLY DID HE SEND HIM UP THERE, JOAB PROBABLY SAID, 21:23 'CHARGE THE GATE, CHARGE THE WALL.' 21:26 AND THEY WERE GOING TO SHOOT RIGHT DOWN FROM THE WALL AT HIM. 21:29 YOU READ THE WHOLE STORY IT TELLS THAT THEY ACTUALLY 21:30 WERE SHOOTING FROM THE WALL AT THEM. 21:33 AND HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE'LL GIVE YOU - WE'LL COVER YOU.' 21:36 YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY, 'I'LL COVER YOU. 21:38 I GOT YOU COVERED.' 'WE'LL GET THE SOLDIERS WITH THE 21:40 ARROWS AND THE BOWS AND WE'RE GOING TO COVER YOU.' 21:45 AND SO, DID URIAH - ANY RECORD THAT HE COMPLAINED 21:48 OR SAID NO? NO. HE WENT WITH THEM. 21:52 HE FOLLOWED THE ORDERS THAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE. 21:58 HE WAS NOT AFRAID TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE. 22:01 I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, BUT I DON'T THINK HE DIED EASY 22:04 URIAH WAS A MAN OF ROCK-SOLID STANDARDS AND PRINCIPLES. 22:09 HE WAS WILLING TO DIE FOR THE LORD AND FOR THE ARMY, 22:13 LAYING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE. HE HAD SELF-CONTROL. 22:17 AND YOU KNOW, I EXPECT WHEN THEY BROUGHT URIAH'S BODY BACK TO 22:21 JERUSALEM, DAVID PROBABLY MADE A PARADE FOR HIM 22:23 - DON'T YOU THINK? GAVE HIM A HERO'S HONOR 22:25 AND ALL THAT. WALKED AHEAD OF HIS CASKET. URIAH THE HERO, 22:31 THE MIGHTY MAN HAS FALLEN. DO YOU KNOW WHY URIAH DIED? 22:35 URIAH, LIKE JESUS, DIED TO COVER THE SIN OF SOMEONE ELSE. 22:41 WHY DID JESUS DIE? WAS JESUS SACRIFICIAL? 22:46 DID JESUS DIE TO COVER OUR SIN? IT'S INTERESTING. 22:50 FROM THE TIME URIAH WAS CALLED UNTIL HE DIED, 22:52 THERE WAS THREE DAYS. IT REMINDS US ALSO ABOUT THE 22:55 THREE DAYS CONNECTED ALSO WITH OUR LORD. WELL FRIENDS, 22:59 NOW WE'RE IN COMBAT. WE ARE ON THE FRONT LINES. 23:02 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. 23:03 WE'RE INVOLVED IN PREACHING THE GOSPEL AND THE DEVIL IS GOING TO 23:05 DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO CAUSE PROBLEMS. 23:07 THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO PRAY, WE NEED TO WORK, WE NEED TO GET 23:10 INVOLVED USING ALL OF OUR SPIRITUAL GIFTS TO FULFILL 23:14 THE GREAT COMMISSION. WE HAVE OUR MARCHING ORDERS, DON'T WE? 23:18 ANY OF YOU EVER HEARD THE STORY ABOUT THE CHARGE OF THE 23:21 LIGHT BRIGADE? IT WAS A DISASTROUS BATTLE FOR 23:25 THE BRITISH CAVALRY THAT THEY FOUGHT BACK IN - THE CAVALRY 23:29 - BACK IN 1854, OCTOBER 25 - DURING THE CRIMEAN WAR. 23:33 THEY WERE TRYING TO PUSH BACK THESE RUSSIAN FORCES AND THERE 23:37 WAS A VALLEY - JUST A BIG OLD POCKET - AND THEY HAD CANNONS ON 23:42 THE RIGHT AND THEY HAD CANNONS ON THE LEFT AND THEY HAD CANNONS 23:45 DOWN THE MIDDLE AND SOME ORDERS GOT CONFUSED AND THIS BRIGADE OF 23:50 600 MEN WAS TOLD TO CHARGE RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE AND TRY TO PUSH 23:55 BACK THE FORCES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VALLEY WHERE THEIR TROOPS 23:58 AND ARTILLERY THERE. AND WHEN THEY RECEIVED THE 24:02 COMMAND, THE SOLDIERS ALL KNEW 'THIS IS A SUICIDE MISSION.' 24:06 THEY HAD FIRE DOWN THE MIDDLE AND CROSSFIRE. 24:08 BUT YOU KNOW, THOSE 600 MEN, THEY GOT THE ORDERS 24:11 FROM THEIR COMMANDER. SOMETHING HAD GOTTEN MIXED UP 24:13 AND THEY TOOK OFF AND THEY CHARGED. 24:17 AND THEY JUST GOT CUT AND MOWED DOWN TERRIBLY. 24:22 THEY MANAGED TO ACTUALLY - SOME OF THEM MADE IT THROUGH 24:24 AND PUSHED THE RUSSIANS BACK AND THEY EVENTUALLY HAD TO RETREAT. 24:28 BUT IT BECAME A VERY FAMOUS STORY IN MILITARY HISTORY 24:32 BECAUSE THEY BASICALLY CHARGED INTO THE SHADOW OF DEATH BECAUSE 24:37 THEY WERE GIVEN THE ORDER AND THEY DIDN'T QUESTION. 24:40 WHEN OUR COMMANDER GIVES US ORDERS, ARE WE WILLING TO 24:44 LAY OUR LIVES DOWN? JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU'VE ENLISTED, 24:47 I'VE ASKED YOU TO TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME.' 24:51 NOT IF IT DOESN'T INCONVENIENCE YOU. 24:56 THE EARLY CHRISTIANS KNEW THAT BEING A SOLDIER FOR CHRIST COULD 24:59 REALLY MEAN THEY'D DIE. AND YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT AFRAID 25:04 OF DEATH IF YOU DIE BEFORE YOU GO INTO BATTLE. 25:08 SO, AS A CHRISTIAN, ARE YOU PREOCCUPIED WITH 25:10 PRESERVING YOUR LIFE? 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