Cut Off Goliath's Head

We ask Lord then you'd be pleased to continue to equip us for the battle Arm us with jealous cares in my sight to live my servants Lord prepare a strict account to give We bless your name Lord. We admit thine is the victory the glory the majesty Now and forever Amen Take courage rise up Be courageous in this striving against sin What is your besetting sin if you have one? Maybe it's late to bed and late to rise Maybe it's prayerlessness Maybe it's gluttony Maybe it's silly talk Maybe it's laziness or some other form of lost. I Don't know what it is.

I don't need to know that by definition of the besetting sin, you know what it is Whatever it is There it stands before you like a Goliath Defying the power of the living Christ Are you gonna let that thing blaspheme the name of the Lord? Why not rise up and take courage and like David hit it in the head like David do with it like he did to the Jebusites and David and all Israel went to Jerusalem Which is Jeebus Where the Jebusites were the inhabitants of the land and the inhabitants of Jeebus said to David Now shall it not come either nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David Here you are You have this victory and that victory and the other victory and Canaan's fair and happy land You've tasted of the milk and the honey. You've seen them routed out But here's this stronghold the stronghold of the Jebusites and they're saying to you you shall not come here You're not gonna take this one. You're not gonna conquer this one Here's no victory over this one.

You're not coming in here And there's the devil saying that to you like those Jebusites, but look at the next word nevertheless Nevertheless David took it He came in it didn't faze him a bit. We're gonna take it like we took the rest of them courage Take our remember the example of David and the Jebusites be radical to find victory over your besetting sin be radical Again, I like David's words in Psalm 18 He said I pursued my enemies and I overtook them I did not turn back until they were shattered and they fell at my feet were unable to rise Remember what he did to Goliath He not only hit him in the head, but he took the sword and cut his head off To make sure he wasn't gonna rise up Radical I shattered them so they were unable to rise Don't play around with it don't go for a half victory Don't pamper it Here's a man with a problem with gluttony and obesity and what does he do but he goes off and some weight watchers or partial diet Instead of being radical and going right to the root of it and fucking the weed out by the root Why not declare a fast one and I run out with a white flag You take a doctor that prescribes the pills Isn't this right? Dr. Campbell? He prescribes these pills and he says make sure you patient make sure that you take them all Don't just take half the bottle and then quit you're liable to have a relapse Take all the pills and make sure that all of them are killed be radical Be persistent To gain victory over your besetting sin be persistent You've got a sore on your arm or whatever It's not enough to put the ointment on just one day You've got to keep applying it and applying it and applying it and be regular and persistent every day until it's healed Keep at it. Keep on it deal with it Another thing if you want victory over I'll be setting sin is be vigilant Remember the example of the Syrians in first Kings chapter 20 Here the Lord Unbelievably had given King Ahab the wicked man that he was victory over the Syrians and Ben-Hadad And what happened the prophet came to Ahab and he said you go and strengthen yourself Because they're coming back at the turn of the year That's the way with the devil he left the Lord until an opportune time Make sure watch out be vigilant As it's coming back.

They're trying to get in again and get a foothold on you And if it does it's liable to be seven times worse than it was the first time What we're saying brethren is to be all out for God all out for him They'll be violent in the things of the kingdom radical in the pursuit of the Lord and in the matters of holiness You don't know how consecrated you really are You don't know how consecrated you really are until you gain victory over that besetting sin Until you fight on the earth the heat of the battles on and you don't know the riches that the Lord has for you Until you deal with that besetting sin the riches of peace and glory and goodness and gladness You don't know the riches that the Lord has for you until all on the altar is laid. I one time was told the story I guess of Genghis Khan Here that man was going through the land sweeping through the land with his army taking one city after another And they came to this one city and there they'd taken it all except this one temple Buddhist temple Or whatever it was And they got into that temple and there they went into the inner sanctuary and there they found those priests all Bobbed down around this here mighty idol and the main the head priest He rose up and he came to that great leader and he pled with that leader take everything take anything But would you just spare this one and the leader at first he said all right But then he thought again and said no cut her down and they knocked that title and Split it wide open and there came up buckets of jewels He can just keep one stronghold sin in our life. He knows that he's holding back the riches of the Lord from us To have victory over a besetting sin it just means believing God have faith in God That's what all those witnesses were crying out in Hebrews chapter 11 by faith by faith by faith Have faith in God and really What sin is it? That's too big for the Lord Isn't that why the Lord came was to set his people free from their sins Doesn't it say in Titus 2 14? He gave himself for us that he might redeem us and deliver us from all Iniquity every lawless deed And a purify for himself a people zealous of good works second Timothy 4 18 the Lord will deliver me from every lawless deed and Preserve me under his heavenly kingdom.

I mean it says every it says all That isn't there power in the blood to deal with that thing that seems so impossible in your life That seems unconquerable in your life Isn't God sufficient isn't the Lord sufficient isn't the blood isn't the cross sufficient for that Really what you're doing By putting up by tolerating a besetting sin in your life in a measure. You're blaspheming You're insulting the cross of Christ and brother Liger has been preaching the doctrine of regeneration And what does it mean if it doesn't mean this that there's victory over sin no matter what it is The Lord's given us a new heart now It's only natural to be free from see it only natural to fight against sin only natural to see those sins drop off It's the natural thing. That's the way God has wired us up.

And so you don't need it You don't need to put up with it. You don't need to tolerate it. You don't need to go on with it There is victory.

It's right at your fingertips. It's real in you already Believe God cash in on it Right off the check that God has laid out there before you fill it in Only natural you've tasted that the Lord is gracious Here what is that grace teaching you? Titus 2 11 says that the grace of God has appeared teaching you actively teaching you To deny ungodliness and worldly loss There is sobering obviously and godly in this present world That's what grace does For more media content from I'll be honest visitors online at I'll be honest calm