All right, let's take our Bibles and turn to 1 Samuel, chapter 30, if you were with me tonight. 1 Samuel, chapter number 30. My name is Stephen Harris. I'm a missionary in Mexico. Oh, you all probably know that, don't you? It's good to be home. I'm not going to be home long, and I'm staying very occupied while I'm here, but good to be home. 1 Samuel, chapter number 30. Let's pray. Dear God, we thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. God, I pray you might bless your Word, Lord, for your people. And, Lord, I'd just as soon stay out of it. But I ask you to do something in Jesus' name. Amen. 1 Samuel chapter 30 and verse number 1. The message, if you will, I've entitled, everyone has a part, and each part gets to share. Everyone has a part, and every part has a share. I'm not a socialist, neither is the Bible. I'm not a communist, neither is the Bible. The Bible teaches us that if you do not work, neither should you eat. But the Bible also says that the laborer is worthy of his hire. Alright? And so, everyone has a part. We're talking about the Lord's work, talking about the church, local church. Everyone has a part. And if you take part, each part gets to share. Alright? So, that's the idea behind what we're going to see. 1 Samuel, chapter 30, verse 1. It came to pass when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire, and had taken the women captives that were therein. They slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away and went on their way. So David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captives. Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. And David was greatly distressed. For the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters, but David encouraged himself in his God. David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod, and Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. Now let's skip ahead. We'll come back and look at all this, but let's skip ahead to verse 24. The Bible says, For who will hearken unto you in this matter? And we'll come back to the question in which David is answering it with the question, but as part, as his part is, that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff. They shall part alike." Everyone has a part and each part has a share. And it was so from that day forward that he made it a statue and an ordinance for Israel unto this day. When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord, to them which were in Bethel, to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Japhtir, and to them which were in Aror, and to them which were in Sifmoth, and to them that were in Estimoa, and to them which were in Raca, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerameelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites, and to them which were in Horma, and to them which were in Chorshon, and to them which were in Aitak, and to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. Everyone has a part, and each part has a share. I'm going to preach this message from the context here in 1 Samuel chapter 30, but I want us to think missions tonight. All right? That's what I am, a missionary. All right? So, I want us to think missions tonight, and I want us to realize that Everyone has a part. The work that God is accomplishing in a tremendous way there in Magdalena de Quino, Sonora, Mexico. Everyone, as I do it at this temple, has a part. All right? And everyone that takes part has a share. And as God accomplishes what God's going to accomplish in Magdalena de Quino, Sonora, Mexico, an area of Mexico that is not safe to be, an area of Mexico that scares most people, that I say that we live there, what God accomplishes, every part gets to share. Okay? And in heaven, it won't be what Pastor Harris has done in Magdalena de Kino, Mexico. It'll be what each part that did their part has to share from the Gazatio Baptist Temple of what God's done in an impossible place and situation. All right. Now, let's look at some things, and we're just going to take our text here and look at some things. And I want us to notice, first of all, a common element, a common element. Verse number one. And it came to pass when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day and the Amalekites, that the Amalekites had invaded the south and Ziklag and had smitten Ziklag and burned it with fire. They had taken the women captives that were therein. They slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away and went on their way. First of all, there is this comment that when we think about the common element that you and I have together in the work of the Lord in Magdalena. Number one, we have a common enemy. We have a common enemy. All right. I'm not out there fighting my enemy. I'm out there fighting our enemy. We have a common enemy. And my enemy is not the mafia. And my enemy is not the Catholic priest. And my enemy is not the Testigo de Jehovah. And my enemy is not the Brahamites. We have a common enemy. It's the same enemy that's working here. And the same enemy that's in all the world. We have a common enemy. So there's a common element. And we need to realize that we're on the same side. We're fighting the same enemy. We have a common enemy. Number two in verse three and four. So David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burnt with fire. and their wives and their sons and their daughters were taken captives. Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. So we find, number two, another part of this common element is that there's a common emotion. They came back to the city. They realized what had happened. And just as much as David was hurting, so was every man in his force hurting with him. Everyone had the same common emotion. Everyone had been hurt by that common enemy. All right. And I'm sure that there were some that had lost more than others, but all had lost some. All right. And whether you realize or not, we have a common enemy. And you may not have lost as much as some of your fellow men. Just give it some time. But you'll lose because we because we have that common enemy. And we need to understand there's a common emotion. All right. There's a common Anguish. There's a common righteous anger. There's a common desire for to see God. Revenge and avenge that which needs to be avenged. There's an emotion. If you face missions unemotional, then you're not seeing it like God sees it. If you're facing soul winning, unemotionally, then you're not facing it like God faces it. Because my Bible says that Jesus lifted up his eyes over Jerusalem, and the Bible says Jesus Now that's a context out of Lazarus, his friend, but also you find in the context when Jesus looked up his eyes over Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, he cried out, how oft would I have gathered thee as a mother hen doth her chicks, but thou wast not. Alright, so there's a common emotion. And we look at this and we see what God's doing in destroying lives in Magdalena. And we look and we see what God's doing in Goshen in destroying lives and the lives of family members of Cazadia Baptist Temple. And we ought to be, we ought to have a righteous indignation, a righteous anger at this common, this common enemy. So we have a common emotion. And then verse number seven and verse number eight. And David said to Amarathor the priest, the Himalayan son, I pray that you bring me into the ephod. And Amarathor brought into the ephod to David. And David inquired of the Lord, saying, shall I pursue after this truth? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, pursue. For thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. So David went, he and the 600 men that were with him, and came to the book Besor, where those that were left behind stayed. There's a common, number three, in this common element, there's a common enlistment. All right? All of his men, 600 men, all of them enlisted in the fight with that common emotion against that common enemy. All right? Not one of them stayed there in Ziklag where nothing was left. All was burnt. But they all joined in the force, David's force, to go after that common enemy. Now remember, we're talking about missions. All right? We have a common element. What is it? We have a common enemy. My enemy is your enemy. Your enemy is my enemy. I'm not your enemy and you're not my enemy. Alright? But we have a common enemy. That gives us a common emotion because we know what the devil has done to our families. We know what the devil is doing to our families. We know what the devil is doing to our families. He's doing to families in Magdalena and on a grander scale. Alright, we're right in the middle of Drug Alley. We see it every day. We see shootings. We see murders. We see the effects of drugs on a family and a community every day. Not like you see it here. You don't see it like we see it. But we see it and you see it. We have a common emotion that something needs to be done. And then there's a common enlistment. We all are part of what God wants us to do in all the world. No one's left out. No one's supposed to stay behind and zip lag. All right. But everybody is supposed to enlist in the battle. And all 600, plus David, were enlisted in the battle. We're going to find out in a bit that not all 600 could do all the same thing. But all 600 started in the battle. And what the problem is, is if you're not in the battle, then you don't have a part. And a part, if you don't have a part, you can't share. But if you get enlisted in the battle because of this common element, then you have a part, and all parts will share, are given a share. Alright, so a common element. Let's look down in verse number 9, and we find a campaign engaged. Verse number 9, so David what? So David went. He and the 600 men that were with him. So David went. We find a campaign engaged. All right. He's asked of the Lord and the Lord said go. And so David went. There's an engagement in the campaign to go against the enemy. Alright, so what you and I need to realize is the common element we have. If you call yourself a Christian, then you cannot sit still, you cannot stay in zipline, you are commanded to go into all the world and preach the gospel, and you're supposed to go. There's a campaign engaged. You cannot sit back, you cannot not physically take a part, you cannot not financially take a part, you cannot not prayerfully take apart. But there's a campaign to engage in and it's time to get going. So David, when, when we know the will of God, there's no question, as Pastor Weinberg said one time, we don't vote on what we know God told us to do. All right. We don't vote on what's right. We just do what's right. And there's a campaign engaged and we're to do it. And then let's go on down. And look at this, there's number three, there's a conquest envisioned, verse number seven. And David said to Abiathar the priest, the Himelech's son, I pray thee, bring me Hither the Ephod. And Abiathar brought Hither the Ephod to David. And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely undertake them, and without fail recover all. There's a conquest envisioned. I'm on the winning side. I don't care what they call my town. I don't care who controls my town, I'm on the winning side. I'm not saying that I'll never be run out of Magdalena, but I'm on the winning side. And I don't live in fear, I'm on the winning side. And I don't live in trembling, I'm on the winning side. And I've seen God already in the short three years that we've been in Magdalena. I've seen God deliver us from the hand of the devil, from the mouth of the lion. I've walked into places you can't believe I'd walk into and walk out of. I've gone into places where white men shouldn't come back out of unless somebody's paid a great ransom for them. I thank God for that. I don't tempt God in that area, but I'm willing to trust God and to try God and prove me now here with the Lord of Hosts. And we're going in and we're playing in the devil's playground, but we're seeing God bring some things, and like Pastor Weiss said, I cannot believe the caliber of people that God has raised up in two years in the church in Magdalena. It's an amazing thing to see. Now we're a long way from ever being established, and in fact we're still not teeter-tottering on whether or not we're ever going to ever going to be able to stay? I don't know. But I thank God for what He's doing. And there's a conquest envisioned. And I can see the day when God has a fully organized, autonomous work in Magdalena, Quinoa, Mexico. And I don't have to be there. And God's got a pastor in place. And God sent missionaries out of it. And all of Sonora is going to just be amazed. And they are already. for the grace of God and what God's doing in Magdalena. There's a conquest envisioned. I'm not there to fail. I'm there to see God succeed. But you're in the same place. You don't have to live in Magdalena to have that vision. It's the same vision of God for Goshen, Ohio. Look at chapter 30, verse number 8. And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue, for thou shalt surely overtake them. Thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. Number one, the victory was promised. Thou shalt surely, excuse me, Thou shalt surely overtake them, and, and, verse, verse 8, let me get back there, and without fail, recover all the victory was promised. If you don't understand it as a Christian, yea, we are more than conquerors to him that loveth the soul. Now, you know, and I can't promise you that there'll never be any problems in your life. There's going to be problems in your life, and there's going to be times in your life when you think things have failed, when you think God has failed, or you begin to say, maybe I failed God. But I'm telling you, stay with it, stay strong, believe God. Faith is just believing what God said He would do. God will never fail you. God is on the winning side. God has promised a victory. So keep on! Keep on! Keep on! Keep on! Keep on! Keep on! Don't stop! Keep on! There's a victory that has been promised. Then we notice in chapter 30, verse 9, the Bible says in verse 9, the first part, so David went. The victory, number 2, was the victory promised, but the victory was purposed or the victory was planned. You know the statement. I've said it here before. Most people don't fail to plan. Most people just simply Most people don't plan to fail. Most people just simply fail to plan. All right? The victory's been promised. And the problem we don't find the victory is because we don't pursue that victory. We don't plan that victory. We don't say, OK, there's where I'm going. I'm going to go through. I'm going to see God work. Look at this. We find the victory was purposed or the victory was planned. We find in the face distress let's go we'll go back up if you will in verse number six and David was greatly what and David was greatly distressed for the people spake of stoning him Because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters. But David encouraged himself in the Lord, his God. We find that victory was planned in the face of discouragement or the face of distress. Listen, if you haven't been distressed or you haven't been discouraged, then you probably haven't been very deep in the battle. You know, we all talk about Charles Haddon Spurgeon, what a great prince and preacher he was. But did you realize that he struggled and he faced discouragement, despondency his whole life? And he had to many times leave London and go over to France. And he had a place over there in France. And he would close all the windows with black curtains. And he would sit in the dark for weeks and just be depressed and discouraged. And yet, look what God did with him. Look what God did to him. Listen, there's going to be discouragement, but David encouraged himself in the Lord as God, although he was greatly distressed. Victory comes when we plan and we propose in our lives that we're going to be victorious by the grace of God in the face of distress. And then we find that victory was purposed in the face of descent. And verse number six, for the people spoke of stoning Him. And we look at David and we think, how in the world can somebody think of stoning the greatest king in all the history of the world? Same way they spoke of doing away with Moses. Same way they did stone Paul and crucify the Lord Jesus Christ. But wait a minute. Paul got the victory. Moses got the victory. Jesus won the victory. That doesn't mean you lost. There's still victory. We have a common enemy. If you haven't felt his rocks yet, you probably will. You probably will. So just hang on. Just hang on. And remember, you're not my enemy. And I'm not your enemy. But we do have an enemy. You do have an enemy. But there's the victory. It's promised. And then we plan. What's our plan? That we're going to go through. We're going to continue on. we're not going to stop. In the face of dissent, in the face of distress, in the face of discouragement, we're going to go on. Because that's how you get to the victory. You stop, you don't get to the victory. We find in the conquest envisioned, let's go back up to verse number six. Again, David was greatly distressed. For the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters. People are hurting. They'll lash out. Don't take it personal. Take it like a man. But David, here we are, the victory was pursued. But David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. If you want victory, it's been promised. And you've got to make a plan. That's where I'm going to. But then you've got to pursue it. David encouraged himself in the Lord. The victory was pursued. Then, let's jump down to verse 17. We're looking at the conquest envisioned. Number four, the victory was providential. Chapter 30, verse 17, David smote them, the Malachites, from the twilight, even on the evening of the next day. And there escaped, what? not a man. Now, wait a minute. Save 400. Now, I think if the pastor had 400 people in here, he wouldn't say, we didn't have a single soul in service tonight. It depends which side you're coming from, right? And so, when there escaped not a man, well, except for 400, how many were there? Now the Bible doesn't tell us how many there were. But what I'm saying is, when 400 is nobody, then it must have been a pretty good number to start with. Because most of us would think 400 is something. You know, if you gave me $400, I wouldn't say thanks for nothing. So you know what side I'm coming from, right? And so when 400 is nothing, he must have had a lot to think 400 was nothing. So what we find is the conquest envisioned the victory was providential. Notice in verse number 18 and 19. Let's go on this and look. And David recovered all how much? All that the Amalekites had carried away. And David rescued his two wives. Now, let me ask you a question. Is it right for a man to have two wives? That's like pastors saying, it's good to have Brother Harris here. And Brother Haddock goes, Amen. I said, thank you, Brother Haddock. I know what I'm like. Is it right for a man to have two wives? Ladies. Is it right for a man to have two wives? Okay, now men, is it right for a man to have two wives? No. But let me ask you a question. How many wives did God give to David? Here. Two wives. Maybe I'll just stop there and let you think about that for a while. David rescued his two wives. And there was nothing lacking to them. Neither small nor great, Neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil nor anything that they have taken to them, David recovered all. And what I'm saying is here the conquest is envisioned and David says, well, the victory has been promised. I'm going to plan through to the end of it and I'm going to pursue it. But I want us to notice the victory was providential. Notice the safe recovery. David recovered all. I know it's not right for a man to have two wives, but God protected both of them. All right? God protects our lives even when our lives aren't exactly what our lives ought to be. Why? Because we're the children of God. That's not God's stamp of approval that everything's right in your life. That's God's stamp of approval that I am the Lord, I am faithful, I fail not. So we notice that the faith recovery, the victory was providential. There is absolutely no way that something should not have gotten lost. That someone should not have gotten abused. But the Bible says there was no safe recovery nor anything that they had taken to them, that there was no hurt, nothing lacking to them. That's the providence of God. Why? Because God cared. And then I want you to notice now in a safe recovery, go down to verse number 20. The Bible says, and David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other cattle and said, this is David's spoil. Not only do we notice the safe recovery, but I noticed the surplus rewarded. God says, all right, everything that the Amalekites got before they got the Ziklag is yours too. Wow! My guy can! I was talking to Pastor Fennell last night, building a 1.5 million dollar building. It's nothing. They started out at 5.7. Whittled it down to 1.5. I'm thinking, man, Pastor Fennell, God bless you, but man, He goes, it's nothing. I got a check today for $10,000. Now, $10,000 isn't a whole lot of $1.5 million, but it's nothing to him. It's a whole lot to me. But the surplus rewarded. How did David get back what God had protected for him? God says, here, let me add to your blessing. It's called victory. Now, let's go down to verse 21. We found a common element. We found a campaign engaged. We're supposed to engage in this campaign. We find a conquest envisioned, and we are more than conquerors. Go into all the world and preach the gospel. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. Now. In verse 21. There's a code. Established. A code established, you know, like the code of the West. I wasn't born there, but I kind of got all brushed off on me. Code of the gentlemen, you know, code. There's a code established. And that is everyone has a part. And each part gets the share. Now, let's go back, actually, to verse number eight. David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake them? And he answered, Pursue. For thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor. Where those that were sore were left behind. I'm sorry, I added a word. Where those that were left behind stayed. That's why they called it be sore. Because there were some that were sore. I don't know that. It's a good way to remember it though. There's some that got there and the reality was they were physically done. If you read before our chapter, you'll find out David and his men have been out fighting, out just in battle, and to the point that they were weary beyond means. And so David says, all right, it's time to take a break. Let's go back to Ziklag. Let's go home. And so you can just imagine the mentality of a soldier, he gets to go home. And they're all so joyfully coming back home and they come home, it's not there. It's been burnt with fire. Their wives aren't there, their cattle's not there, their home's not there, and they're tired. And David says to the priest, shall I go on? Shall I pursue them? This is God's will. And he says, go on, pursue them. God's given you the victory. David says, all right, charge! And they get to the next little obstacle and some of them just can't do anymore. David realizes, verse number 10, but David pursued. He and four hundred men, for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor. Let's go to the end of the chapter, verse 21. And so they go out and they fight Abimelechs. And they smote all of them. Well, except for 400. Now remember, David had how many people? He started with six. They got to the Brook Besor and there was 200 that just could not go on. And David said to them, you know what? This is a good idea. This is a good thing. Because we really have too much. Let's leave some stuff behind and there's enough people to watch the stuff we're leaving behind. So this works great. We'll travel lighter. We'll catch them faster. We won't have as much stuff on it. There are some genuinely, there were probably some that were wounded from the battle before they even got home. And then those that were wounded physically, we know they were wounded emotionally. They were tired. They were exhausted. And so he said, that's okay. We don't shoot our wounded. We save our wounded. We keep our wounded. We watch our wounded. We heal our wounded. This is a good thing. 400 says we can go on. David said, that's great. We can travel fast. We can travel light. They killed all of them except for, well, 400. But wait a minute. How many did David have? 400. That's amazing. Hello, can't you see that God's working here? Can't you see that providence has intervened on your behalf? It wasn't not by power nor by might, sayeth the Lord. Verse 21. David came to the 200. So they got all this stuff and they got all this spoiled and they're coming back. And David came to the 200 men, which were so faint that they could not follow David. whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor. And they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him. And when David came near to the people, he saluted them. What's that mean? What's the word? He saluted them. He greeted them. But we're talking military terms here. But what do you do when you salute somebody? You're respecting them. You're not talking down at him. You're not looking down at him. You're saying you have my respect. Now, wait a minute, who's saluting who here? All right, you get the idea of what David's attitude is? Verse 22, Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, And said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and leave, depart, get away from us. Verse 23, Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren. With that which the Lord hath, which that which who? Which that which the who? The Lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand. For who will hearken unto you in this matter? But as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarryeth by the stuff. They shall part alike. And it was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance, or if you will, a code for Israel unto this day. The code of David. Amen after God's own heart. Did you get that? The code of David. Amen after God's own heart. That every man has a part and every part gets to share. And it's not to the idea, to the victor goes the spoil, but they're all involved. And so we see the code established. Number one, there's a physical element. In verse 9 and 10, we find out that there were some that were so faint, they came to the besor, where those that were left behind stayed. Why? Verse 21, I think it was, because they were faint. They were so faint that they could not follow David. Listen, not every one of us has the same measure of faith. The Bible says God gives to each a measure of faith. And not every man, not every person has the same capacity to serve God. My dad, at 91 years old, is really struggling with the reality of the fact that he can no longer do about everything physically, as far and even to the point of soul winning, that he's done all his life, and he's struggling with the fact that his only recourse is prayer, and he's been a man of prayer all his life. But he just he just struggles with the fact that he's not out there knocking doors. And yet one week ago, two weeks ago, he led an old man to the Lord. I said, Dad, that's 91. How old is old? Because I was out door knocking with this kid, 20, 27, I think. We went and knocked on this door and this old guy come to come to the door and I led him to the Lord. Oh, wow. Two weeks ago, my dad, 91 years old, led a man to the Lord. Monday and Tuesday, he was in the hospital in the ICU because of heart. But a week before that, he led somebody to the Lord. And he'll be trying all the way down on the trip on Saturday, he'll be trying to lead somebody to the Lord. That's what he does. But you can't say that because he's 91 now and he's not on the field, but there's a lot of churches that have said this. You don't share anymore. Because you got left by the brook Besor. Because you're too old. No, that's not the code of David, the man after God's own heart. And just because you're not living in Magdalena, And I, you know, OK, you're scared to death. You'd never live in Magdalena. That's OK. That's not where God has you. And I'm not saying, well, you can't share in what God's doing. I'm saying you get to share in what God's doing in Magdalena. You don't have to live there. That's not what God's got you for. You say, well, I can't do that. Well, then do what God wants you to do. Go as far as God wants you to go. Be faithful in being apart. But there's a physical element. Realize that there's some things that you can't do physically from where you're at or what God's given you. And I've had to learn that tremendously in the last three years that after diabetes, you know, there's some things I just cannot do anymore. And it burns me. And I sit there at the house some days and I can't get out. Just because this body won't let me get out. He's thinking, what good am I doing on the mission field? Well, I do good on the mission field every day. I can't get out. But then some days I can't get out. Some days I can't hardly walk. And I just say, well, God, that's fine. I'm going to do what I can do. These are the days I guess I get to upgrade my, you know, update my blog spot. These are the days I get to write a prayer letter. These are the days I need to write letters or something or pray. But then the other days I get out. There's a physical element, but do what you can do. In verse number 22, let's look at verse 22. Then answered all the wicked men and the men of Belial of those that went with David. Look at verse 23. Then David said, You shall not do so, my brethren, without which the Lord has given us. We find number two in this code established. There's the pride eliminated. The law, the older, the older I get, the longer I'm in the ministry, the more I recognize the reality of the fact that the Bible says that pride is an abomination to the Lord. And I have tried to say for years and years and years, that any time you use that word pride, any time you use that word pride, remember it's an abomination to the Lord. I think we misuse the word often when we talk about being pleased. And there's the Protestant work ethic, and Ecclesiastes teaches us that we ought to take pleasure in what we do. The Bible teaches us that whatever we find to do, we ought to do it with all our might. But this idea that you ought to be proud, is never found in the scripture, and God hates pride. And I don't care if it's from the pulpit, I don't care if it's from the pew, I don't care if it's in the presidency, God hates pride. And pride cometh before Paul in a haughty spirit before destruction. And we find here that the code that David has established, and pride is eliminated. And he says, no, that's not how we look at it. We don't lift ourselves up and say, well, look at me and listen carefully. You lift yourself up and that kind of pride and you set yourself up for a mighty big fall. And I see it. And I see it. And I see it. I preached the family conference down in Edelmoseo about four weeks ago, and I saw so much arrogancy and so much pride in some of those preachers. And I told my wife that man, It's going to fall. And he's a friend of mine. He's going to fall. I got a message. I've never preached it. It's in my Bible somewhere. God gave me on just that arrogancy. Attitude. Paul said, by the grace of God, I am what I am. Paul said that. Go unto me. Let this mind be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but took upon himself the form of a servant, and humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God hath highly exalted him. The code of David established his prides eliminated. And then verse 23 again, he says, You shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us. We find the providential enlightenment. The only thing I can say about the work and what God's doing, and like I say, maybe in two weeks I'll write back and say, well, we don't have anybody now. So we're going to go from here. I don't know. But I can guarantee you the only thing we're seeing is what God's doing. When we went there three years ago, I don't know why anybody would sat under my preaching Spanish. And it ain't much better now. But, you know, man, I look back there and I didn't, you know, I didn't have the words to order a service. They say stand up and sit down and stand to number two. I just did what I could because God called me there and I didn't have anybody else to help me. I look at it now and I see, you know, and you have people like Brother Weiss coming in and envious of what God's doing. And you just think, wow. Brother Ortiz come up and preach for us. And Brother Ortiz is, I think, seven years that he's been on his mission work down there. And so he called his son, Freddy was filling in for him, and he called Freddy and he said, well, how'd services going? He had nobody but some bus kids. I'm thinking now, wait a minute. He's a Mexican. He's dealing with his own people. You know, we had 25 or so in services. I'm thinking, wait a minute, after seven years, then how'd this happen? Pride's eliminated, and we found a providential enlightenment, which the Lord, which the Lord hath given us. You like your house? You like your car? You like your lifestyle? You like whatever you have? You think you earned it? You think you got it? God gave it to you. Be thankful God gave it to you. And let's look at one last thing and I'm done. In verse 24, He says to these wicked men, for who will hearken to you in this matter? Well, there may have been some that would have until David spoke up. But when David spoke up, now who's going to speak up? Maybe it's time to speak up for what is right. But as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff. They shall part alike. And it was so from that day forward that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day. The Code of David. We find the participation in joy. I thank God for what he's doing in Magdalena de Kino, Mexico. I thank God that I have a home church that supports me faithfully, that prays for me. I thank God for the support level we have, but we clean it out every month. Every month we clean it out in the ministry. Right now, we don't do any savings. In fact, I borrow from the rental on my house to get by in the ministry. You may see, you know, on the monthly church budget, how much came in for Harrison. You think, well, he's doing pretty good. But none of it's sticking. We're putting it all to use. Putting it all to use. For a while there, we got extra money. And we just put it all to use. And God's a blessing. But we share and we share alike. And what's going on in Magdalena, you come on down. I cannot guarantee your safety. God has to do that. We'll do our best to protect you, and I will stand in front of you if somebody starts shooting. But bullets go through me, so it won't help much. But I thank you for praying for my protection. And I believe in God's desire to raise up a work at Magdalena de Quino, Sonora, Mexico. God's promised the victory. I don't know what that means. I just know that he means he's going to give us the victory. Trump is going to sound someday, We're all going to be taken away. And in heaven, we're going to share alike. You say, but God, I don't even know Juan and Ana. I don't know Raimundo and Jeanette and Angel and Yvonne and Irving. I don't even know Germán and Diana and Germán Jr. and Gael. God, I never even met. Marios, and Marisol, and Sofia, and... I always forget every daughter's name. God, I don't know Marcos, and Lucilia, and Jesus, and Fernanda, and... God, I don't know Jesus, and Marielos, and Daniel, and... God said, that's alright. You had a part. You may physically have been limited to staying by the brook Cazaddale, and not getting over there, but you stayed by the stuff. And the code of David, the friend after mine own heart, has been established that we share alike. God, thank you for the opportunity to present God's precious word again here in this church. May you bless in its execution. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Let's stand with your heads bowed and your eyes closed. Pastor Burke is coming at this time. Their heads bowed and their eyes closed tonight. The piano is going to play in just a moment. Let's stick by the stuff. Let's do what's right. Let's become faithful.