Little Foxes

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   lord that we can enter into the holy of holies by a new and living way which you have consecrated for us through the veil that is your flesh that when your flesh was torn and the blood flowed you made the way so that we could have the tangible real presence of god in our lives where we don't have to chant to become buddhists hindus muslims we don't have to incorporate pagan techniques to in experience the presence of our creator the mighty god we exalt you today we thank you for all of your grace for the cross of our lord jesus christ for his resurrection from the dead for the power of the holy spirit lord there's so much more you want to give us we thank you for your word and we ask you to anoint it today in jesus name amen and amen you may be seated uh well can i say that i believe the lord changed my message this morning for the second time so we're going to be on message number three i want you to go to the song of solomon uh just quickly the song of solomon chapter two we're gonna look at one verse before we get into this this morning because as we were in worship the lord kept speaking this verse to me and there must be a reason so i don't know that we'll ever get to that powerpoint back there at all but that's okay amen when the lord speaks to you something you just roll with it and even though i'm not trying to do a series i think it's going to build upon the last two weeks this was not my intention i wasn't trying to do one but anyway song of solomon don't preach out of this too much but there's a verse that stood out to me this week and the lord is just making it stand out again and i want you to look at verse 15. he says here in 15 says take us the foxes the little foxes that spoil the vines for our vines have tender grapes um i'm going to give you the definition here of the word take in the hebrew the definition of this word means to seize so let's let's look at it that way i think it gives us a little more understanding he's talking about little foxes that spoil the vines and what he was talking about of course was a vineyard and um i know this from just reading about it

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   but that planting a vineyard and taking care of a vineyard and and actually getting a vineyard to produce uh good grapes is not an easy thing to do it takes a lot of work a lot of diligence really like any garden really it takes a lot of work and a lot of diligence to keep the past out to keep the the varmints and animals out of it and to you know you to keep the ground tilled and to keep the weeds out and so so any type of gardening or or producing or planting a vineyard and taking care of a vineyard is not an easy thing to do it takes great diligence um but he says here he uses this terminology he says seize the the foxes and then he says the little foxes that spoil the vines because what what is the devil after are y'all still lost song of solomon 2 chapter 2 verse 15. did i never say it i thought i did chapter 2 verse 15. let's read it again take us or seize the foxes the little foxes that spoil the grant of the vines why for our vines have tender grapes so um kind of what i want to speak to you about today and just like we've been talking about the last couple of weeks but especially last week about samson is that it really sometimes it really is little things that can ruin all your fruit that can keep you from growing keep you from producing the fruit of the spirit keep you from being an effective witness keep you from operating in the power of god keep you from the fruit of repentance sometimes it's just little things i mean let's think about it before we turn to some some verses but let's just think about it sometimes we could think that god was being silly or he was being harsh but for instance you look at the at king saul for instance king saul's first sin was not waiting for samuel the prophet samuel had told saul you go over here with you get prepared for the battle you go over here but you wait for me i will come in a certain number of days i think it was seven days and this is in the book of first samuel it's like i'll come in in a set number of days you wait for me then when i come we'll we'll do the sacrifice because samuel was both a prophet and a priest so he could both hear from god give direction to the king and he could offer the sacrifices and so before they went into battle against the philistines against the enemies of god which would represent to us spiritual warfare before that there was a command wait wait until i get there wait until we

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   offer the sacrifice wait until there's a blood sacrifice and then we can go into the battle but saul got impatient all right now this is important now and all of this is in you can go first samuel chapter 13 every bit of this is there first samuel chapter 13 but he got impatience but in fact let's just turn there we might turn back to solomon in a minute but first samuel chapter 13. this is after of course first samuel 10 saul was anointed by samuel called and what's so sad about this is saul had only been king look at first samuel chapter 13 look at verse one it says saul reigned one year and when he had reigned two years over israel saul chose him out three thousand men of israel where of two thousand were with saul in mixmash and in the mount bethel and a thousand were with jonathan his son and gibeah a benjamin and the rest of the people and the rest of the man said to his tent so this is the the story of that and if you'll um let's drop down and if you look um oh well let's just read it um drop down let's see in verse four it says all israel heard say that saul had smitten the garrison of the philistines and that israel uh also uh was had an abomination with the philistines and the people were called together after saul to gilgal and the philistines gathered themselves together to fight with israel thirty thousand chariots six thousand horsemen and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude and they came up and pitched in mitch mash eastward from beth haven says when the men of israel saw that they were in a straight for the people were distressed then the people that hide themselves in caves and thickets and in the rocks and in the high places and in pits and some of the hebrews went over jordan to the land of of gad and to gilead as for saul he was yet in gilgal and all the people followed him trembling and said and he tarried seven days according to the set time that samuel had appointed but saul came not to gilgal and the people were scattered from him and saul said bring hither the burnt offering to me in a peace offering and he offered the burnt offering and it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering behold samuel the prophet came and saul went out to meet him that he might salute him and samuel said

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   what hast thou done what hast thou done and saul said because i saw that the people were scattered from me and that thou came as not within the days appointed and that the philistines were gathered themselves together at mitch mash therefore said i the philistines will come down now upon me to gilgal and i have not made supplication unto the lord and i forced myself therefore and offered to burn offering now listen to this this is saul's first real transgression sin his first mistake as we like to call it now in 2013. we don't like to call them sins anymore our transgressions or disobedience or rebellion or stubbornness we like to call them mistakes anyway samuel said to saul you have done foolishly you have not kept the commandment of the lord thy god which he commanded thee for now would the lord have established thy kingdom upon israel forever but now thy kingdom shall not continue the lord has sought him a man after his own heart and the lord commanded him to be captain over this people because you have not kept that which the lord commanded commanded thee and samuel arose and got him up from gilgal and to gibeah of benjamin and saul numbered the people and so on now i'm not going to keep reading this of course they went into the battle and saul kind of ignored this and really the next screw-up you get from saul is when samuel gave him another command in chapter 15 to go kill all the amalekites who were very very wicked evil people and go eradicate them um the world they have problems with these scriptures but they're finding out that uh you don't negotiate you can't negotiate with evil you can't negotiate with a with a hitler there's some people that won't be listened to and you know you either let hitler kill everyone in europe and the world and take it over or somebody had to rise up and stop him so a lot of you know atheists and people that want to find things to criticize the bible criticize these old testament wars and passages but again they just don't understand god's judgment and god's righteousness and that certain evil will not quit there will there's certain evil that there will be no peace with and really that's what we're about to face with the rise of the antichrist the rise of islam the rise of satanism the rise of the illuminati the one world government the last persecution that we're about to face as christians worldwide and and that the jews are about to face this is this is surmounting evil that will not stop and jesus made the statement in matthew 24 that unless those days were shortened by his coming that no flesh would be saved i mean no one would survive now you think about that for a second

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