 Turn to your neighbor and tell him warfare is necessary This topic of warfare is necessary some people like white in your church why we always about fighting the enemy beating the enemy Why can't we just enjoy God's blessings? Why can't we just have some love and peace somebody just shower me some peace, you know But you have to understand if your bucket is leaking you're losing some matter as much blessing you can get upon your life If you're somebody stealing from you constantly you already are a loss So if we can stop Satan from stealing killing destroying your life, you are already blessed No need to preach on blessing giving and all those things So tonight is the night where we're going to speak on that why? Why warfare is necessary for your life a man church if you're brought your Bible if you didn't it's going to be on your screen second Samuel Chapter 23 verses 11 through 12 and it says this next next to him was Shama somebody say Shama son of agi the Horrorite it's pretty cool baby names. I should be looking here When the Philistines band together at a place where there was a field full of lentils Beans Israel troops fled from them verse 12 But Shama took his stand in the middle of the field He defended it and struck the Philistines Philistines down and the Lord brought about a great victory Somebody say warfare is necessary for victory Come I say louder and more enthusiastic warfare is necessary for victory and somebody say victory Qualifies you for a reward We have to understand that in this life This is not heaven We have to understand that we are we are going to a place that will be perfect We're going to a home which is going to be streets made of gold. There's been no pain no evil You know no struggling but as on this earth We will be faced with an enemy which is Satan and main characteristics of Satan is this steel Kill and destroy that is he's the author He's the creator and he is basically the architect of everything that is evil in your life When people begin to experience loss when they begin to experience Drawdowns when they begin to experience loss pain sickness death they begin to blame God They feel that they're unworthy there. They're not worth it and they leave Satan untouched We feel like God is the you know God. Why did you allow this God? I'm not worthy and and Satan is nowhere to be found in the picture Where God clearly says that Satan is the architect. He came to steal kill and destroy it So you have to put the the author of that into the acts that's happening in your life When you begin to experience the loss when you begin to spirit drawdowns certain attacks begin to come out of life Know who is bringing that against your life know that is the Satan know that it is his agents It is demon that it's facing. Yeah, it's I'm glad I want to tell you that you know Everything is going to be good. Everything is going to be colorful. Everything is going to be awesome But you have to understand Satan's the Bible describe him as a roaring lion Walking around seeking whom who can devour If we're being oblivious ignorant to saying you know, it's oh he's not touching my life I'm not touching him. He's not touching my life. Well, I'm sorry to say yes. He is if There's poverty in your life He's stealing the money that God has for you if there's sickness or pain in your body Satan is the architect of every pain in your life if there's death in your family if there's constant We are currying of those evil happening your life. Let me tell you something Satan is the architect of that in your life Church is a place where we get to expose Devil schemes in your life saying is a place where we begin to stop the bucket that there's a hole in the bottom Satan begins to take from my life constantly The divorce that has taken place in your family the broken marriages the families begins to take it apart We can't just sit on the fence and say as long as he's not touching me. Everything's okay. What about tomorrow? What about the future that you live what's going to happen then God has a plan for us and God has Equipped us with weapons of warfare to stand our ground to know that God is on a side and that we are born of God And we are more than conquerors. We are in Christ are victorious and he's by a side a man church We're just going to to take few things from the scripture that we can learn and to see what can we apply for our lives How can we live a victorious life knowing that we can arm ourselves for battle and overcome the enemy that comes up in our lives? a man church right down number one it says that Satan will take everything if you don't stop him Satan will take everything if you don't stop him We as we read in 2nd Samuel chapter 23. We heard about this man Shamakh It says that there a group of philatines a troop of Philistine came against him and I kind of read something about what is a troop? It's basically anywhere from 180 to 300 people came Against them and he stood in the middle of a field of beans and begins to fight and protect it Many of his colleagues many of his friends begin to run away begin to flee But one thing Shamakh understood and he knew that look what I have here being a field It was it was a plan that was promised to him. So he knew one thing look this line is mine Look if I were going to run from this place, maybe it's to be in a few Maybe means nothing to some other to me. It's my food to me. It's my land This is what I'm going to live if I run now. I was robbed of everything that God has promised me Satan will take everything from you if you don't stop him It's not a one of those things. Oh as long as I don't touch Satan. He won't touch me No, it's not like that if he can still from your life without you noticing he will take from you Certain things maybe in your life that you say, oh, well, I'm accustomed to maybe you know the you know The family drama maybe you know the finances maybe the same maybe you became used to but let me know Let me tell you one thing. God is not planning for you to fail God is not planning to say oh, you know, I'm gonna put him in this family, which is dysfunctional Maybe your character just terrible, you know, this is where you're going to live. No, that is Satan stealing from your life And when you begin to realize Satan is taken from your life You know that there's something that God has equipped you with to fight against him and my church one thing about Life as life is not a playground. It is a battlefield We don't go through life We can enjoy it live the American dream and just do what we can and just enjoy this life No, our life is a battlefield until we go into glory You until you see God until you go into heaven you were going to have to fight for what God has promised you God has given us a blessing God has given us, you know promises to live a good life to prosper to have more than enough But that life does not come without a warfare without you saying, you know what God promised to me And I'm not gonna let Satan take that from me when you begin to realize what belongs to you You begin to fight and to stand and say, you know what you can't take it belongs to me Yes, you know, there's certain things that enemy takes. It's not yours. You're like, well, it's not mine I don't care, but what belongs to you when somebody begins to take from I've you're not gonna just stand there Say, you know, hey, it's not mine. No, it belongs to you. What does belong to you as you sit in there good health victory Abundant finances begin to have good marriages to have, you know a healthy body to have a good future Those are the things that belong to you and when you begin to notice that they are missing from your life You have to realize one thing somebody is stealing from you. And who is that the author of killing stealing destruction, which is Satan Satan will not stop just because he's been stealing from you for 10 years. That's not gonna happen Satan will not stop from you just because you lost somebody in your family Satan is not gonna have a pity on you just because oh you're all alone. Oh, you know, you've gone through so much You know, this is enough. No, he would take from you until everything that you have is gone You know listening to to some of the news some of the things some people that that have Encountered with and just seeing how Satan is not Does I have any pity on anybody, you know listening to to one of the in this room on our community I heard of one time of a of a 15 year old committed suicide and you and I was and to me it was just I Couldn't understand. I'm like how Satan can take something so innocent and begin to destroy it and take life out of it I begin to just ponder upon him like what is he has done this this This boy has not even started living life and Satan already took everything from him talking to my friends recently and just Just seeing how how Satan begin to destroy his marriage how the kids that he thought was his own You know Satan begin to take away and that the kids that he raised calling them sons Both of them calling his sons four years later find out that they were never his sons And I was talking about and in the back of my mind that I was I was like How can Satan do this to such a person and talking to two to one? It was my very close friend and I'm just talking to him and I was just and him saying you know, I'm broken But then he's like, you know what? It's it's not that I want to commit suicide. I'm depressed. I went back to drink I don't know what's gonna happen. I don't know if I'm going to live another day And I'm and I'm looking at the picture. I'm like Satan. Why don't you just stop you already really took his marriage You already took his kids. Why don't you stop there? Why do you have to continue going and and the Bible makes you to realize that he does not stop until he takes everything from you He has no emotions no pity He has no no compassion for nothing if you walk away from fighting the devil You have to understand you will fight people We have to understand what Satan begins to steal from life if we don't fight against them We will fight something else we see in the battle of David's brothers when they begin to when a Goliath came against them and they be he begins to threaten them begins to you know paralyze them and The David's brothers begin to run away from the war where and then David comes as you know I'm gonna fight Goliath and this brother's like no Who do you think you are they begin to fight people when we walk away from fighting the enemy? Who is Goliath who Satan will begin to fight people instead of fighting the real enemy you'll begin to blame your kids You begin to blame society you begin to blame games guns all these little things you begin to fight everything else But Satan Will blame God will feel unworthy and will feel and will make sure the Satan is untouched That's the whole scheme of Satan to be able to leave a place without being unnoticed to be able to steal from your life Make you to realize this is normal You know divorce this is normal You know you know losing your virgin is normal getting a drug at an early age that is normal committed to it It's normal people go through it and he begins to make you to realize this is a life Where's my Bible begins to shine it says that God came to give life and life more abundantly You don't have to live this way when God begins to come and says you know, I'll give you peace the surpasses all understanding I'll heal all your diseases. I'll give you so much room and so much blessing that you cannot contain it That is the life that I came to give not a life of poverty sickness and pain. That's what God wants to make us to realize Why we fight every service why we begin to do in this place begin to engage against spiritual warfare And against saying because we know one thing if we don't fight Satan will fight something else Each one of us will born. We are born with the fighting spirits And as nice as you look get you in a bad day You will you will be the the worst person on earth or even me I fight to you know before David You know before David got big and like a whole I used to beat David I used to I I promise you, you know parents leave and I'm like, what was the door behind me? I'm like, what's happening now? I should beat him, you know, but that was when he was four feet now that's you know, now he's like seven So I'm just like he gave it no Give him some money leave this place, you know But even me, you know a back in that would just just fight now. I'm just a lover I just I love everything love talkers, you know those things are good, but even then you know, I would like to fight You know as as good as you think you are God has deposited that fighting spirit inside of you Not against your brother your sister your you know your neighbor those who do not share same faith with you But Satan and his agents will fight in this place because we know that if we don't fight against him We'll fight something There'll be something tomorrow. We're gonna, you know begin to say oh the government is this and and you see their passion and And their anxiety oh, you know the police is this they're doing this and they fight against the wrong thing We're saying is untouched Yes, you can fight the the person that's done evil But unless you remove the evil out of the person you have not won the battle Unless you remove the evil out of that person you have not won the battle We don't fight people we fight sin and people that sin is Satan That's one of us things that we have to realize if we do not if we do not fight back against the enemy He will take everything from us until it's all gone Number two offense is the best defense Offense is the best defense Some say some of the quotes that are real that are read that are like George Washington wrote in 1799 says make them believe that offensive operation often Oftentimes is the surest if not the only means of defense a male Zidong Said that the only real defense is active defense meaning defense for the purpose of counter-attacking and taking the offensive Often success rest and destroying the enemy's ability to attack And the one we quote that they said is some martial arts emphasizes attack over defense Wing Chong for example the style of kung fu which uses the maxim the hand which strikes also blocks if You stand for nothing you will fall for anything If you stand for nothing you will lose everything Well, I think that we we are the people goddess created as warriors God says you are more than overcomer overcomer over what? Not overcomer over your your parents when they're telling you to do something not overcomer of your your little brother and sister Or your dog the the peat on your carpet and you begin to become an overcome I know it's not that Overcomer of the enemy God says I made you a chosen generation may royal priesthood You'll be more than a conquer those who are born of God overcome the world why over overcome overcome over What of the evil that is going around of enemy that's roaring like a lion against our situation? We have to understand kushiani is not all you know God's presence film alive but kushiani is also known your position in Christ Jesus and Stand against the enemy when the flood gets begin to come against you and you begin to stand in God and say whatever is The same spirit the race Christ from the dead lives inside of me and it will overcome the world And whenever the sickness begins to come against you you're not the person says oh We're just gonna be a part of statistic, but says that by his stripes where healed you begin to counteract Those who begin to attack those are the ones who be the most protected and most victorious in my church One thing about shama Shamah is that he understood what belonged to him in the the field of The beans one thing was to Israel is that land was promised everybody else flew because they're like you know I might Nothing you know nothing will happen. You know we're gonna get attacked. This is like 180 to 300 people coming against me But shama understood look said this land is mine God has promised to me this land if I lose this land I lost everything if I lose this land. I'll lose food. I'll lose provision I'll lose my my house everything that our God has promised me. I'll lose so one thing he understood God has promised to me and it belongs to me. It's mine We're many times easy to lose things that are not ours, you know It's recently. No, Vladimir's house got broken into you know, it didn't affect me at all Actually to me. I was just like sitting back on the chair watching a Vladimir's like Somebody stole from you just walking like he's gonna attack. He's gonna he's gonna do something Even if he finds him he'll forgive them something's gonna happen. It didn't affect me at all Zero, you know, I'm like, yeah, but this guy looks uh, it's like maybe white maybe Russian I don't know looks like a yeah, I don't know just like didn't really care But then when they towed my car, man If I wasn't wearing straight out of the church shirts, I would have made I would have made history in that towing company you know, so When you begin to realize that something belongs to you you begin to fight against it It's a realization. What belongs what is yours? You know, I can take a bag that is next to you which not ours You're like, hey, you know a thief run fine But if it's your bag, you're gonna you're gonna run the fastest mileage ever run in your life and catch the thief Because it is yours Shema understood this field is mine if I lose this I lost everything God has promised to me that I'm gonna have a good health and if I lose good health I have nothing God has promised me abundance if I lose abundance. I lost everything Come on put your hands together for Jesus If first first Timothy 1 18 it says fight according to the prophecy which was spoken to you What has God been speaking to your life? What has God promised for your life? Is it good marriage when you only thing you see is fights? Is it a a mean behouse will serve the Lord when everything you see your family is just being broken apart Is it that that I'll put out a windows of heaven or enough blessing upon your life That there'll be no room to contain it where you begin to see lack after lack after lack What has God has promised you are you fighting to according to what has God has given you or are you like those other islets We're running away the moment enemy assembles its troops. You have to understand the enemy will attack But what comes next is realization God you have promised this to me You said it is mine and I'm gonna position myself in the middle this promise and I'm not gonna go until I'm going to defeat my enemies God has promised us so many things so many goodness so many blessings in our life that there's it's just so you can't even outnumber it But how often Satan begins to steal steal does promise to and you look in your life And you're like well, you know, I should try harder. No Realize where enemy stealing from you and one of the things for my life is you know when I'm on piano begin to scream Says lose my voice begin to fight because I realize God has so much for me I'm just need to realize who is taking whatever God has promised me Who is God at goddess promise us, you know a huge church a miraculous, you know signs and wonder prophecies healing is That's what's goddess promise God that is ours by many times same begins to steal those things from us He's a thief. How about when it comes to a good health? How about when it comes to good relationships good marriages if Satan begins to take from your life and you just say, you know God, this is the you know, this is my generation. No, someone is taking it from you. What has God given and promised for your life? What are you standing for what God what God has given you? Where is that field of beings that God has spoken of said this is yours? It's your inheritance you shall live here You should be fruitful you'll be multiplying in this place and you begin to run away where When enemy begins to assemble the troops number three When we stand against the devil God brings the victory when you stand against the devil God brings the victory One thing about Shamad that I we were reading now nowhere in the scripture said that he was skilled Nobody nowhere in the scripture. You see he was qualified. He wouldn't he was made a Mighty man of David After God has brought the victory so if you see the scriptures not that this guy was from his youth He is killed thousands people. No, this guy was just like, you know what God has given me this land I'm gonna grab my sword. I'm gonna stand in the middle of it. If God shows up I'm gonna fight and that's exactly what happened He said he positions himself in the middle of the field and read the scripture and it says then God Brought about a great victory who was it Shamad or God? We have to understand it's not that we have to be qualified to win a war We just have to put us up in the middle of God's promise and says God I'm here and whenever you shop We're going to win this battle. It was never about Shamad. It was never that he was skilled or he had, you know All these qualifications that made him great He said that God came in the scene what Shamad said, you know what God you given to me And I'm not leaving this because this is mine You have promised me. I'm not going to leave this place until I overtake my enemy and God brought a huge victory What are you positioning yourself this evening which promise of God that you station yourself in is saying God This is why you promised me. It doesn't matter who comes against me. I know you're on my side and we shall overcome What promise does God has given to your family to your future to your children and you say that God This is the promise that you've given me. I'm positioning myself in the middle of this field And I'm not leaving because you said it and it shall come to past He knew that God promised and he knew one thing that if God promised God will fight with him God says I sent forth my word and I watch make sure my word does not come back to me void God says, you know, I gave you a promise. Yes, I've said many good things But do you do take that promise and you position yourself in the middle of the promises or God? You know what you've given to me and that's it. I'm not going anywhere Only thing in the back of me is defeat and ahead of me is the enemy And I know you're by my side and if God is for you who can be against you He he understood the principle that if God is watching over his word, there's no way I'm going to fail You know, oh heaven and earth will pass away, but God says my word will not pass away I'm a position myself in God's promises and I'm not going anywhere. What is God has spoken to your life? What is God has been speaking for life? So, you know what? You will graduate You will you will break this addiction You'll you'll get married. You have you'll gather you'll have a good marriage. You have good family You will raise great children. What is the promise that God has given you but back of your mind You feel like you know, it's just words, but God say no, I'm watching. I'm watching on my words God says I'm not a man that I should lie and I'm not a son of man that I should promise and not do So no, if I said it, I'm gonna make sure it's gonna happen Are we settling with just whenever enemy roars or attacks would begin to run or you taking God's promises God This is this is everything that I had You have to understand one thing about about this about this about this scripture is that The Philistines came and begin to attack at a time where the where the beans were just ripe They did not want to take or they did not want to attack the field just for the field They wanted to attack the field because it was just getting ripe. It was just time for harvest This speaks of youth This speaks of youth just ripe just at a time where it's harvest the enemy wanted to come and destroy and overtake that place This even as we're standing here One of the things that God wants to put on our hearts is to fight as far youth For the for the field of beans that were just arrived just at a time of harvest That's where shamak stood in the middle of the field and begin to fight and this is this prophetically I believe it speaks about a young generation It begins to defend and begin to fight and begin to protect a young generation Enemy knows that if he wants to destroy our future, he will aim at our beginnings. He'll aim at the youth One of the things that God has put on my heart and my wife is to be able to work with youth and and as I was The script has been in my mind for a while to be able to to fight for that youth fight for teens because God Because Satan knows if he can destroy the youth The church is destroyed because the youth is the future of the church Shamak understood and he said look this is the time of harvest This is the time just where the beans are ripe just ready to be picked. I must stand I'm gonna fight because the future the future is in in the young people What is God calling you to fight for maybe you know It's you're saying, you know, I have my own problems that I need to fight against and you know You know how I'm gonna fight to save other people especially the youth, you know salvation So why should I bring other people to church? Why is this so important? When you begin to take things take care of things what matters to God God will begin to take care of the things that matter to you the most You know, maybe you say that you know, I don't need to fight for anybody else or for nothing else You know, I'm just gonna concentrate on my life. Well, how about tomorrow? How about your future? How about the marriage? How about the family? How about then you one day have kids? You one day will be married you one day will have a family. How about then? Right now fighting for somebody else's life is seems to be like, you know I have so many other things in my mind But also he began to protect of the beat player the field of beans that somebody else would eat from not just himself You know, Shama didn't think of oh, I'm gonna protect this land This is enough for me and not say no He began to protect the whole field because he said the whole town will eat from this place My neighbors my brothers my sister my my father my grandparents Everybody's going to be taken part of this thing and I'm going to fight for that Salvation of souls is what matters to God the most God wants us to each one of us is the field sometimes that that's like, you know, it's not with fighting for it Somebody else's life. Why do I care? No? It's something that will though that will create our future The youth the teens that we begin to pray for them that we begin to rebuke every devil They begin to bind every every devil over the lives to begin to mentor them to begin to raise him because we know one thing If Satan wants to destroy future, he will aim at our beginnings at the youth God is calling each one of us tonight It's it's more of a message that you know at that God has given us a responsibility to fight to be warriors To take a place a stand where God wants us to be victorious and God says if you stand on the promise I will fight for you I'll fight with you and we will overcome and there will be a place that don't say in history that you know that John that the Mary that are they stood the ground they believe for salvation of soul and the whole city was saved They didn't leave the promise that you know the thousands locally millions globally They didn't leave the promise because they understood revival will come to a city and today they're listed in history because revival came to try cities God wants to see are you going to battle for your city? Are you going to battle for your family? Are you gonna battle for yourself? Are you going to stand and fight because the promises that God has given to your life? They're never ending they will not fail you and God says are you ready to step on the field and defend it because I am by sign