if you wouldn't go to 1 Kings chapter 19 tonight, 1 Kings chapter 19. And there's some great victories in the Bible. And as I think about the great victories that are in the Bible, some that come to mind, I enjoy reading about David winning the victory over the champion Goliath. And what a blessing it is to watch that, to watch Gideon and his 300 God used them to defeat the host of the Midianites that have just scattered themselves all over the countryside, those three Hebrew boys. That Nebuchadnezzar said, you know, I'm going to take you boys, I'm going to burn you to a crisp. And you know what? The furnace that he heated up for them, there was no victory over them. They felt no ill from the fire. I think about Daniel being thrown in the lion's den. Now, there's a lot of things I think I would like to see and experience that you read about in the Bible. But watching somebody being cast into a den of lions and then a king come back later on. And when he says and inquires about Daniel, he says, O king, live forever. I'd love to have been there at that moment to see that. That's a great victory. Paul, I love the story of Paul being stoned at Lystra. And they drag him outside of the city and they leave him for dead. And you know what he does? He gets back up and he walks back into the city. And I, in my mind, I would have loved to have seen the look on the people's faces that said, good night. We thought we killed him, but here he comes walking back into town. And all I, when I read those things, I'm getting chill bumps now. There's a God in heaven that gives real victory. And I read in I Kings chapter 18 about one of the great victories in the Bible. Elijah on top of Mount Carmel, and not only does he defeat the prophets of Baal, but he defeats the prophets of the groves. He defeats Ahab. He defeats wicked old Jezebel. God sends down fire, and then he sends rain after that. All I've got to say is God can give victory. I like reading about it. But, you know, I think the devil hates for God's people to have victory. Could you say amen to that? Before this virus became an issue, honestly, I've talked to more than one pastor, and they almost all say the same thing. Preacher, we were doing so good. We were having great crowds. We were having people saved. There were things that were going positive in our church, unlike they had gone. past. Gone very well. And, you know, the devil has a way of trying to steal your victory. I was reminded this week, Faye Howell talked about Arthur Howell, how when Dr. Sightler came to his house and they talked and she poured it and said, preacher, you got saved right there. She said, I'll never forget the words that Dr. Sightler said To my husband, he said, now, Arthur, it won't be three minutes that I get down the road that the devil's gonna come up to you and tell you that what you just did didn't mean anything and didn't change anything. But I'd say after all those years of sitting in the A-man corner, Satan was wrong because of Arthur Howell's in heaven today because he got born again and his life got changed. Satan doesn't want you to have the victory. want you to live in fear. He wants you to live in defeat. He wants you to live in the valley and never believe you ever get on the mountaintop. Now, I know you can't live on the mountain. Life is full of changing seasons, but Satan would love to keep you in a place where there is no victory, there is no joy, There is no sense of something progressing forward. And when you end chapter 18, all the victory, look how it ends. What a great ending. Verse 46, chapter 18, and the hand of the Lord was on Elijah. Boy, how many of you like to have God's hand on your family? Would you say that? How about it? How many of you like to have God's hand on the church? Wouldn't that be a blessing? God's hand, his good hand, the same hand that sent down the fire and burned up the stones and the sacrifice and the water, the same hand that sent the rain after three and a half years of drought, that good hand. And look how it affected Elijah. God's good hand is on Elijah. And he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. That means he ran from Mount Carmel to Jezreel. That's 20 miles. How many of you would rather take a bus than to run 20 miles? I'd rather ride in a car than to run 20 miles. I'd rather ride a bicycle or a scooter than I would to run 20 miles. I've run 20 miles. You guys have been in the military. You've probably run more than that, and there is no joy in it for me. But Elijah must feel so good and the hand of God on him. Can you imagine the victory? Now, come on, think with me, and don't just check in the church now so we can check out. Look, he saw fire come down from heaven. He saw God's enemies defeated. Now rain has began to flow, and God's good hand is on him. And I'm telling you, Elijah is on top of the world. Hey, Elijah, would you like me to carry you to Jerusalem? Nope, I don't need the king's chair. I think I'll just go ahead and run and get there. I'm feeling pretty good today. 20 miles he takes off. That's victory. Chapter 19, verse 1, And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and with all how he had slain the prophets with the sword. Satan will try to steal your victory. And that's what I'm going to preach on. Look at the next verse. Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time. And when he saw that, he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba, which belonged to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough now, O Lord. Take away my life, for I am not better than my father's. And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, Arise and eat." Now, I want you to look at verse 4 and compare that to verse 46. Verse 46, the hand of the Lord is on Elijah. He's had victory. He's girded up his loins. He's running before the king to the entrance of Jezreel, chapter 4. He's in the wilderness. He's under a juniper tree, and he's requesting God that he might die and that he's no better than his fathers. What a complete contrast from victory to what I would describe as almost utter defeat. If you want to say he was depressed, you're right. If you want to say he's despairing of life, you're right. If you want to say he is defeated, you're right. He has said, it is better that I should die. I'm not better than my father. How, how can a man that's had all those victories, that runs 20 miles because of God's good hand, end up underneath a juniper tree in complete defeat? that he might die, because that's the operation of the devil. The devil is a thief, and the devil is a liar, and the devil wants to take your joy, and he wants to take your victory. And when you sing victory in Jesus, he wants you to sing it like this, oh, victory in Jesus. I've seen enough people sing victory in Jesus that if that's what victory is, I don't want nothing to do with it. And I know life is up and down. And I'm just telling you, Satan will steal your victory. We had some people before this thing started. I'm not talking about the rioting now. I'm talking about the virus that had stepped toward God, that had gotten saved. There were some people that had gotten their life put back in order and they had said, look, I'm coming back to the Lord and I want to be where God's people are. And they're trying to move forward. They're born again. And then in the middle of all this, then here comes Satan gonna try to steal victory from God's people. I want you to notice a couple of things here that I think are important to keep that from happening. Number one, number one, you need to temper your expectations. Temper your expectations. Now, I'm just gonna say what I believe. I believe that Elijah saw the fire fall. That was real. And Elijah slew all the prophets of Baal and of the groves, and that was real. And then Elijah prayed, and that little cloud, like the shape of a man's hand, came up and rained after three and a half years, began to fall, and that was real. And in my mind, now this is just me, in my mind, if you gathered all the nation of Israel, and there's a huge contest between the false prophets of Baal and the true prophet of God, between the false god Baal and the living God Jehovah, and God shows himself mighty and wins the victory, in my mind, my thinking is, Elijah thought, We are about to have revival nationwide. It is going to be sweeping. I mean to tell you, we're going to see people get right. We're going to see people get straight and honest with God. We're going to watch people's lives change and turn. Surely, if he sends the fire, surely, if he sends the rain, surely, if he gives victory over all these 850 prophets of Baal and the groves, victory in a huge way is coming our way. And you know what? I don't doubt that God could give that, but the next verse when it says Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, verse 2, then Jezebel sent a messenger. You know, sometimes you just need to temper your expectation. I believe God could send a national revival, and if he does, I'm going to be shouting it out and praising the Lord. If he sends revival to this church, I'm going to throw fuel on the fire, not water. I'm not going to sit around and say, well, I just don't believe anybody else can be saved, and it probably wasn't real, and I just don't believe God could really stir the people's heart again. Hey, if God sends revival, I want to add fuel to the fire, but I also know everybody gets a choice. And if Elijah thinks that now it's complete victory and the opposition is never going to raise its head again, hey, listen to me. Just because you get over your sin doesn't mean that sin one day is gonna come knocking on your door, tempting you to go the wrong direction again. Just because you get victory over the devil in your marriage or with one of your children doesn't mean that he's finally gonna leave you alone. You know what the Bible says about Jesus there in the wilderness? The Bible says that Satan left him. for a season. Well, the devil's just gonna leave me alone forever. He ain't gonna leave you alone forever until you graduate to glory. Well, if we just have revival, then it'll all be finished. No, that's not enough. We need to keep moving forward. But Elijah's idea probably that the opposition's finished is not right. Temporary expectations. You know, just because you get right with God doesn't mean your family's gonna be excited about it. I think a mistake sometimes that people make, mom and dad, they said, we're going to live for Jesus. And they start making all kinds of choices and decisions, throwing out the junky music, throwing out the bad clothing, throwing out the bad habits, turning off the TV, going to church, getting involved with God's people. Boy, but those children, they think, well, they're just going to come right along with us. You know, there's a lot of times you make a choice to follow God and nobody might go with you. But that doesn't matter. If you chose to follow God, you can still get the victory for following God. Amen. Amen. And if you did win a victory, I mean, come on, don't you think that Elijah should have rejoiced over fire falling and then rain falling? Isn't that a great victory in the Bible? Great victory. But untempered expectations. And then I think it gets overwhelmed with the opposition. What you need to do is you need to temper your expectations, and then you need to expect opposition. Come on, I didn't say you ought to expect things to go poorly, but I think you ought to expect opposition. Look, when I say that, verse number two, then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah. You know, that was a false messenger. Jezebel sent Elijah a false messenger. She's guilty of that if you'll look just a page over in chapter 21. Ahab wanted Naboth's vineyard. couldn't get Naboth's vineyard, he wouldn't sell it to her, wouldn't sell it to Ahab. So you know what Jezebel does? Jezebel, verse number 8, so she wrote letters in Ahab's name and sealed them with a seal and sent the letters unto the elders and nobles that were in his city dwelling with Naboth. And she wrote in the letters saying, Proclaim a fast and set Naboth on high among the people. And set two men, sons of Belial, that's sons of the devil, before him to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him that he may die. That's a false messenger. Those men knew they were carrying a false message. It didn't really matter to them. They're doing what they're being paid to do. I think there's a lot of that going on in our country right now. I think there are people that are being paid to do certain things. I think there are people that are benefiting from carrying a message that identifies or sits well with their cause. And Jezebel, Jezebel sends out a false messenger. And then Elijah, why in the world he'd listen to it? I don't know. But verse number two saying, So the false messenger brought a false message. Why do you say it's a false message? Look at it. So let the gods, little G, do to me. Well, I thought we settled that on Mount Carmel. Come on now. The little G gods, 850 of his prophets couldn't get a spark, and the great big G god, in 63 words, set fire down from heaven. Amen. So the false messenger brought a false message. Why do you say it's a false message? Look at it. So let the gods, little G, do to me. Well, I thought we settled that on Mount Carmel. Come on now. The little G gods, 850 of his prophets couldn't get a spark, and the great big G god, in 63 words, set fire down from heaven. Amen. So the false messenger brought a false message. Why do you say it's a false message? Look at it. So let the gods, little G, do to me. Well, I thought we settled that on Mount Carmel. Come on now. The So you gonna threaten me with your little G-gods? That's what she said. So let the gods do to me. Well, they won't do anything to you, Jezebel. They're just a bunch of dumb idols. It's a false message. If I make not thy life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time, I'm guaranteeing your death. I'm glad I've never had anybody that I know of make a death threat against me. Never had that happen. Now, I've been threatened to be whipped, and I've had people make good on that promise. But I've never had a man threaten to take my life. She tells this man of God, Elijah, that just called down fire and slew 850 prophets, I guarantee you, by tomorrow at this time, You're a dead man. I think about, you know, that's kind of what Pharaoh did. You know what Pharaoh told Moses? He said, I tell you what, Moses, don't you come see my face again, because the next time you see my face, you're going to die. You know what Moses found out? That there was a God big enough that Pharaoh didn't have enough power to exert what he said was going to happen, and he drowned him in the Red Sea. Amen. Nebuchadnezzar said, I'm going to tell you what, boys, I'm going to give you one more chance. When you hear all the music, you better get on your face because if you don't get on your face, I'm going to throw you in that furnace and you're going to die. And they said, be it known unto thee, O king. Go ahead. They heated up seven times hotter when they threw him in there. Guess what? A guy that guaranteed their death couldn't make true on that promise. That's a false message. You know what I tell you? You need to be careful listening to false messages. You say, well, where would I find false messages? How about on the news? Honestly, I just can't listen to much news anymore because I really don't know who to believe, positive or negatively. And then all I do is I get aggravated. And then when I get aggravated, I want to do something. And that's really probably not a good thing. And all I'm just saying is you can listen to somebody that passes bad news and a false message. You know, the Bible speaks about those that are given to that very thing, that are gossipers, they are railers, they are men, that men that take and for their own reputation take and destroy the reputation of somebody else. Don't listen to a false message. But then look what it says in verse number three. Here's what he does. He listens to a false messenger that had a false message. Verse number three, and when he saw that, you say, what do you mean when he saw that? Well, when he saw that, he saw what she promised she was going to do on the morrow. That's a false vision. In other words, in my opinion, what he did is he saw his own death at the hand of Jezebel. I mean, he saw God send down fire and burn up stones and water and take and burn the sacrifice. And everybody's saying, the Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God. And then he prays and he sees God send rain. But now, now something that hasn't happened in his mind, he sees his own death at the hand of wicked old Jezebel. And what I would say, I'd say it to you maybe this way, She got in his head. You ever heard somebody use that terminology? Try to get into somebody's head. I think, I think, I think that Elijah is sitting there and he's thinking about, well, surely how many people does she have left? I mean, I killed 850 of them. And, um, I guess there might be some down there on the other side of Jezreel. And of course, and she probably knowing her daddy and them, she probably got all kinds of people back over there. I wonder if they're going to try to, I wonder if they've been following me. They knew I was coming to Jezreel. You ever been camping with somebody and somebody tells a story and then all of a sudden the twig breaks in the background? You know what you did? You got in their mind. Can I ask you a question? Should Jezebel have any place in Elijah's mind? None. That's why Philippians 4, 8 is so important when it talks about thinking on these things. Whatsoever things are true and whatsoever things are just and whatsoever things are lovely. That's why I said the news, if you listen to all those things, they begin to take and they wear out your mind. And now she's in his mind and he's seeing his own death. You don't listen. I had a, I had a, I had a time, I had a dream. I don't, I don't, I don't really worry about dreams, but I had a dream and, uh, about dying in a, in a plane crash. And then, and then it was sometime close. I can't remember my wife's birthday or anniversary or whatever it was. And, and it bothered me. And then I went out and I bought some cards and the cards that I usually bought for, they weren't stacked in the card rack. And they told me they were discontinued, and I thought, well, okay, that's no big deal. And little things like that kept happening. My daughter came in crying, Daddy, please don't go on this trip. Why? Because I'm afraid you're going to die. I flew down to preach the meeting. With all that in my mind, and I would sit there the day During the afternoon, and those planes would take off, and the devil would just keep whispering, yeah, you get on that plane, you're gonna crash when you go through that Bermuda Triangle, you're gonna die. And it bothered me. I think I may have mentioned it to my wife. Of course, my wife, been a good wife, she said, well, you're just crazy. You don't need to quit talking like that. You're not gonna die. And by the way, how much life insurance do you have? She didn't say that. And I would hear those planes take off, and those big engines whine. And if you'd never heard engines whine on those things, they do. And, you know, then bad weather came in, and then it came time to get on that plane. And we got on that plane, and honestly, in my mind, I had a stack of tracts. And I still, I try to pass out tracts. I try to do the right thing, let people know about Christ. But, boy, that day, I'm passing out tracts to everybody on the plane, because I'm thinking, today's my last day to get to witness. Today, I'm gonna die. I passed out tracks to everybody. We got sat down on the plane and that plane takes off. And yet at the beginning, they say, you know, sit back, relax. And they have little things to come down and they start playing through the loop about how they're going to, you know, your flotation device. And, and as we're going up, we're getting into the clouds and there's just, you know, a little, because they were shaking a little bit and all of a sudden that thing starts looping. And just remember that under your seat you have a flotation to buy. And remember you have a seat under your flotation. And remember you have a seat under your. You say, what happened to you? Nothing. Boy, but I sure did let a dream get into my mind. And Elijah is losing the victory over something that's not. It's not real. He saw that. Saw what? Jezebel hadn't killed him. Jezebel hadn't been able to put a hand on him. 850 of her prophets are dead. Little G gods are going to do to you what the big God already helped you be able to overcome. Hey, look, it's not even real. Boy, that's been exploited underneath the situation we're living in this country. So he sees his false vision. But look what it does. And then thirdly, number one, number one, temper your expectations. Number two, expect opposition. Number three, number three, don't be moved by your troubles. trouble comes. Look what happens. It's amazing to me. He's in Jezreel, the Bible says, and then if you look what the Bible says in verse number 3, and when he saw that, he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba. Jezreel, up around the Sea of Galilee, Beersheba down around the Dead Sea, 95 miles away. He's on the run. He's on the move. And then verse number 4, but he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He gets down to Beersheba after running 95 miles, and now he's going another day's journey into the wilderness. He's being moved by his trouble that really hadn't even come to pass yet. And if you want to lose the victory, you let the devil move you from doing the right thing to just running scared, and you will lose the victory. You'll lose the victory. It's amazing to me what the Bible says there in verse number three, when he saw that he arose and went for his life and came to Beersheba which belonged to Judah and left his servant there. You know, the first thing he did is he isolated himself. That's what the Bible says, he isolated himself. He's under the juniper tree. He's isolating himself. He left his servant there. He's gotten away from the people that he knows. He's gotten away from the people that would help him. and he's just taking off running. And listen to me, listen to me. Please listen, listen. I believe the day and time in which we're living, Satan is working to isolate people from other people. We're living under a tight endeavor in America. Have we ever quarantined healthy people, but we are pushing people away from one another. That's why, hey, I'm glad, hey, hey, I'm glad I am in church tonight with God's people. Amen. To isolate. And that's exactly what Satan is doing. He's isolating this great man of God. And the devil will move you away from friends. He'll move you away from people that love God and that love you until it's just you. That's what a lion does. He isolated himself. He's being moved by his troubles. Look what else the Bible says. In verse number 4, but he went himself a day's journey in the wilderness. Out there in the wilderness, get back to the church house, Elijah. Get back to a place where God's people are. And he came and sat down under a juniper tree, and he requested for himself that he might die. Now, I'm just gonna say it this way. He started praying for himself. He isolated himself, and now he's praying for himself. And the reason he's praying for himself, because this woman has gotten into his mind, I'm gonna take your life by this time tomorrow. So he's not thinking about anybody else. Hey, listen, aren't you glad Jesus didn't think about himself when he went to the cross at Calvary? Christianity is not something that we live for ourselves. Paul said it this way. In 2 Corinthians, he said that the more I love you, the less that I am loved and I will spend and gladly be spent for you. I'll spend myself for you. Christianity is living a life for someone else, and yet what's happened is he's been moved by his troubles to the wilderness, and he's isolated himself, and now he's requesting for himself. He's not praying about the people that saw victory won on Mount Carmel. He's forgotten about that. That's no longer in the front of his mind. What's in the front of his mind now is a woman's threat. to take his life by the power of these little G-gods. So he's praying for himself. And then not only that, though, the Bible goes on to say in verse number 4, the Bible says, He's being moved by his troubles. He's comparing himself. I didn't do a good a job as Daddy did, and I didn't do a good a job as those men that went before me. Come on, how many of you think that calling down fire from heaven with 63 words is pretty impressive? Come on, that's pretty impressive. Who else did that? I'm not better than my father. Who else stood in front of a whole nation against 850 prophets of Baal and the groves? But he starts comparing himself. And listen, if you're not careful, you start comparing yourself. Can I give you a verse? Write this down. 2 Corinthians 10, 11. Write that down. 2 Corinthians 10, 11. And I'm gonna read it to you because I want you to write it while you're writing. I'm gonna read it. 2 Corinthians 10, 11. Here's what the Bible says about comparing yourself. Are you listening? The Bible says, for we dare not make ourselves of the number or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves. but they measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise. You don't need to be comparing yourself to somebody. Look, God made you a very unique individual, different from other people. And that's why in the church, we don't compare ourselves among ourselves. Listen, if there's anybody you ought to compare yourself to, it ought to be the conformed image of Jesus Christ. You don't want to be everybody else around you. Well, I don't have the ability he has, or I don't have the personality she has, or I don't have the voice that he has, or I don't have the opportunity that they have. It doesn't matter. When you start, again, everything in his life is getting so self-centered. Do you see that? He's praying for himself. He's isolated himself, and now, now he's comparing himself. That's a way to lose victory. That's a way to lose victory. Listen, I am, you know, I've had people say to me, oh, preacher, that was a great message, just like Dr. Soutley used to preach, Dr. Akin used to preach. And I know, you know what I know? Those men, my faithful predecessor, Dr. Sightler, they have an ability that God gave them, and what I am, God gave to me. And I'm not gonna try to get defeated in the, listen, I did the other day, it's been a while back, I was in the parking lot of the hospital going to see somebody. I was listening to Dr. Sightler preach. And in the 10 minutes that I was listening to him preach, he was putting out Bible principles, and he was in the passage, and he was making it live. And I could see the conviction. I could see the clarity in what he was saying. And I just, I stopped what I was doing and listened in the parking lot. And after I listened for a while, I called my brother. I said, Brent, he said, what is it? I said, I'm going to turn my preaching papers in. And he said, why? I said, I just listened to Dr. Silas preach about 15 minutes and I can't preach worth a lick. You say, do you believe that? Well, when you get to comparing yourself to somebody like that, what do you think's going to happen? God sends along unusual people from time to time. Look, John the Baptist was unusual. I mean, he's girded with camel's hair and snapping off the heads of locusts dipped in honey. I mean, a preacher like you, you've never seen a great prophet. You don't need to compare. You know what you need to do? Hey, you need to be what God made you. And you need to do what God's asked you to do. Amen. No, Elijah's losing the victory because he's comparing himself. He's comparing himself. Look, I know we don't have 1,200 people in this building. I tell you what, I'm glad. I'm glad we have 200 on a Wednesday night. I say amen to that. Could have 20. He starts comparing himself, and look what he does. He resigns himself, basically quits. If you look at it, what it says, and the way it's worded, I think God put it in the Bible that we might be able to see that. The Bible says in verse number four, when he went away a day's journey in the wilderness and came, he sat down under a juniper tree. You remember what we saw at the end of chapter 18? What was he doing at the end of chapter 18? Can you tell me? He was running 20 miles. He's on the move. He's in motion. What's he doing now? Sitting down. Look what it says next, verse number 5, and as he lay and slept, he laid down and slept. I'm done. He resigned himself. I'm finished. And that's exactly, that's exactly what he did. What Satan wanted to do to a man that had taken and won great victory, he wanted to limit him. So he moved him by the trouble to isolate himself and to pray for himself. and now to reside himself." Now, I want to end it this way. If you look, the Bible says in verse number 5, I'm glad this is in here, "...behold, then an angel touched him and said unto him, Arise and eat." First is, an angel touched him and spake unto him, but I don't have time to deal with that tonight. I want you to go, if you would, instead, go to 2 Thessalonians right quick. "...being moved, refused to be moved by your afflictions." Go to 2 Thessalonians. Come on, turn with me now. The church at Thessalonica had great opposition against it, just like every Bible-believing church has had throughout history. There's a devil, there's an accuser, there's an enemy against people that are trying to win the victory for Jesus. And if you look what the Bible says in verse number three, the Bible says in I Thessalonians 3 that no man should be moved by these afflictions. For yourselves know that we were appointed thereunto." Appointed to what? Trouble. Appointed to what? Suffering. For verily, verse 4, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation, even as it came to pass, and ye know. For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labor be in vain." Verse number 7, therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all of our affliction and distresses by your faith, for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord. Listen to me. The devil wants to move you through your troubles. How many of you remember that Jesus was led by the Spirit into the same place that we find Elijah in the wilderness? How many of you remember that? The Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness. But you know what Satan did to Jesus? Satan took Jesus out of the wilderness and he took him up into a high mountain. He moved him. He changed his location. And then he took him and he put him on the pinnacle of the temple. He moved him from the wilderness to the pinnacle of the temple. You say, how'd he do that? Look, I'm just telling you what the Bible says. He moved him there. He's changing his location. And I'm telling you, the devil knows he has advantage if he can get you moving. the wrong direction, but the Bible says, hey, we knew, I told you that you should suffer persecution, verse four, and that you need to stand fast in the Lord. Oh, help me God say it right tonight. Hey, you need to stand fast in the Lord. Be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. You're gonna suffer problems. You folks, listen, you young people that live for Jesus, you're gonna have problems. But you know what? One day, are you listening? Hey, all those problems will cease when you stand in glory on streets of gold with a mansion built by God in a body that is incorruptible, that will never be defiled. Hey, there'll be victory that day. You know what you gotta do? Don't be moved, refused to be moved by your trouble. You can watch Elijah go from Carmel to Jezreel to Beersheba to the wilderness. He's always moving down. God wants you to stand fast in the middle of all of this unrest, in the middle of all this uncertainty about viruses. You know what you need to do? You need to resign yourself. Hey, I put my faith and trust in the one mediator between God and men, and I know that he's gonna make good on every single promise that he made, and I'm not moving. You say, will we have trouble? Absolutely. Will we have opposition? Absolutely. Do we need to temper our expectation? Absolutely. But you know what else we need to do? We need to shout when we have the victory. We need to thank God for the blessings. Amen. How many of you have not had coronavirus? Please raise every hand. Thank you for all your hands being raised. So can anybody say amen about that? Can you? How many of you have eternal life and one day you're going to leave this world and go to a place called heaven? Can you say amen? Can I see your hand on that? Any victory in that? How many people in here have the righteousness of Christ and all of your sins underneath the blood of Christ? Can you say amen to that? That's victory. That's victory. So don't let Satan Steal your victory.