Sermon – “A House Divided Will Fall”

Now when the Pharisees heard it they said, “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons.” 25 But Jesus knew their thoughts, and said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26 If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? 27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. 28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 29 Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house. 30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad. 31 “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.

Today my message out titled A House Divided will fall. And Matthew twelve and. Again I added a couple of verses. I’m going to add vs twenty two and twenty three before that you can pick right up with verse twenty four. Then one was brought to him. Who was demon possessed. Blind and mute. And he healed him. So that the blind man. The blind M.-U. man both spoke and Saul. And all the multitude were amazed and said. Could this be the Son of God the Son of David. Now when the Pharisees heard this they said. This fellow does not cast out demons. Except by bells above. The ruler of the demons. But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them. Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And every city or house divided against itself will not stand. I like he speaks of the Kingdom every nation divided against itself. Every house divided against itself every city he brings it down even to the home. Divided against itself will not stand. If Satan cast out Satan he is divided against him self. How then was Kingdom stand. And if I cast out demons by bells above. By whom do your sons cast them out there for they shall be your judges. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God Surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods. And the sea first binds a strong man. And then he will plunder his house. He was not with me is against me. And he does not gather with me scatters abroad. Therefore I say to you every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men. But the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven men. And in one who speaks a word against the Son of Man It will be forgiven him. But he speaks against the Holy Spirt. It will not be forgiven him. Either in this age or in the age to come. They got at his blessings to be here and in the reading of His Holy Word. Let us pray. Heavenly Father we thank you and praise you for your word we thank you for the understanding that you give us to your Holy Spirit and father I just pray that you will bless us with your presence today. That your spirit be upon each one of us or got it you would give us understanding. While the Help us to know what your word means help us to live it to put it into practice Father God I pray that we would not be divided nor But that we would be united for you in Jesus name. Amen. We must not be divided the house I’m going to say the house the church must not be divided. We must be united for him will must be united in our work for the Kingdom of God. We must be united in His Word we must stand on the truth. We alluded to this in Sabbath school to the small inning. Were Paul was teaching job is teaching and do not be divided not except false doctrine. We must stand against that we want to be united in it. The phrase United we stand and divided we fall has been quoted. Many many many times over the centuries over the millennium with you will. The earliest use of the phrases attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller. A sub. Both directly and his fable before oxen in the Lion and indirectly. In the bundle of sticks. Many have used it. Patrick Kendry Henry. Hendry. Patrick Henry used the phrase in his the very last public speech given Mark seventeen ninety nine in which he denounced the Kentucky and Virginia resolution. And he also said. When after he squatted that. He said Let us trust God and our better judgment to do to set us right here after that us not be divided and let us trust God. As our better judgment that issues God amen. United we stand was part of the fourth verse of the one to our seventeen sixty eight patriotic ballad. The Liberty song by John Dickerson. It became the motto of the July one thousand nine hundred two flag campaign. I don’t know if any want to sing. Old post the old posters. United we stand divided we fall we had the American flag in the girl on air during the Civil War The phrase became the rallying cry for the Union cause. United we stand divided we fall by the early twentieth century labor unions had taken up the slogan as a call for solidarity in the struggle for better working conditions. As I’m a member of a union. I can see the company trying to divide the unions. That they fall. Our company now is currently negotiating there there’s like seven different unions. That the railroad has negotiate with. And they are trying to get a composite mechanic so they can do way with all the different crafts and have one composite mechanic they’ve been trying to do for years. So they started negotiating with four of those unions which represent most of the crass in the shop. Well two of them pulled out but this is no we’re going to continue working with these two. And war work out a contract with them and forget about the rest so it’s like they’re trying to divide the workforce. Because I think they know if they divide. They can conquer. But if the workforce Staines together. United. We will not fall in war War two. United we stand and vote not just the American patriotism but unity among all the allied nations. As expressed by Queen. While Mina of the Netherlands in her address to the U.S. Congress on August fifth one nine hundred forty two she said united we stand and yet united. We challenged she very bitter e. That was the queen of the Netherlands. Most recently in aftermath of the terrorist attacks in two thousand and one. The phrase United We Stand. Reemerge along with the American flag. As we confronted the crisis in which we then faced. You know today. There are so many issues. Social and moral issues. Which seems to have the public. The American public divided. And some of these will stir your emotions because you have very strong feelings about them. I looked up. The number ones that are the main things that divide America today. And they listed. Doesn’t. But here’s some of the most important ones ones on the top of the listen you’ll be surprised if you don’t hear much about this one at the top of the list was doctor assisted suicide. I mean you haven’t heard anything about that in a long time. But that’s still one of the main issues that divides Americans they have strong feelings for or against it. You haven’t heard much about it since. Dr Kevorkian just go on but it’s still happening today. America is divided on the issue of abortion. You’ll hear more about this because that’s where my main topic is today. They are divided about relations between married men and unmarried men and unmarried women. Fornication. Americans are divided about medical research. That is used it is using stem cells from human embryos. Thirty vital in that Americans are divided on the death penalty. Some say it’s wrong some say it’s right. How Ronak the. Some say that it’s wrong still say it’s OK to abort children. The comics though there are divided on divorce. Rather fright or wrong. They’re divided on cloning humans. They’re divided on. Married men and married women having affairs. There’s a couple of issues of that have moved to the forefront of the moral debate that divides us. One today that has really moved to the forefront as the tension between the races in this nation. I think it isn’t growing increasingly worse. And the last months and years. Or maybe even couple years. Is been escalated by the shootings. The shootings of black men the shootings of cops it is really escalated it’s center stage today. A couple weeks ago. You know you’ve seen a lot of black people out there with their banners black lives matter. And they do matter. But also seeing a guy put out on You Tube This was a black guy. And he said. All lives matter. He’s calling out to his brothers and sisters. Of the same race. The Quit trying to bring division in this nation. He says don’t try to divide us. He says all lies matter he says the lives of those the white cops were sought matters. All lies matter folks. All lies I don’t care what race. All lives matter. But many are trying to divide this nation. And we cannot let that divide us because we must be united. All laws are important to God and all last should be important to us because you. You cut yourself what colors the blood. No matter what color you are on the outside your blood runs red all Oz matter to God and all my life should matter to us. And then there’s one that should really yank our chains and it probably has jank your chain. And that is the abortion issue. And it has actually jumped to the forefront with the Planned Parenthood exposure. I hope it jerks your chain. Because some of the things that they’ve been doing is disturbing. Very disturbing. And the church needs to know the truth. It might not be fun to hear the truth it might not be fun to hear the facts. But it is the truth. You need to know the truth about the issues. You need to be informed as a church. So I want to share some facts with you about Planned Parenthood. And the abortion. To smite not sound real spiritual it’s morning but you need to be informed church. Here are some facts. Planned Parenthood’s founder. I know that David knows some of these facts because he shared some of them with us. Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger was a strong believer in eugenics. What is eugenics. It is a science of per person proving the human population. To put in a nutshell. Eugenics is someone coming up with a brilliant idea saying we need to create the perfect human race for our city or our nation that we need. Just think of Hitler. Blond hair blue Was he one of the perfect race it’s trying to eliminate those who aren’t quite as intelligent as you. I mean think about it we’re going to give an I.Q. test and if you don’t score so this much on the I.Q. test sorry we’re going to Limon H. and you could be thinking all man voted to score one point higher. I might a made it does basically what you Jenny says. Trying to do away with the. The lower class the less intelligent those that they don’t feel as good as they are. But you know what’s wrong with that so there’s always someone better than somebody else. But she was a believer in eugenics. The following as a sample of her documented beliefs. Says in this matter the example of the example of the inferior classes. The fertility of the feeble minded. The mentally defective. The poverty stricken classes should not be helped. Be held up for and you lay sion. So she was trying to eliminate. They Her goal to eliminate the poverty stricken the mentally defective in the feeble minded. Referring to immigrants in Catholic she wrote. There are an unseasonably spawning class of human beings who never should been never should have been born at all. She also wrote the most merciful thing that I large family. Does TO WANT to his infant members. Is to kill a Planned Parenthood is carrying on her legacy today. Center in itself own population control efforts. And they recently filed tax return parent plan who planned parenthood stated as part of their mission statement that there they are committed to a US population that is of stable size and optimum environment. They’re carrying it on today. Just look where the clinics are located. Look at the disproportionate number of abortions percentage wise. Of black women. Compared to white women. They should be screaming the loudest. Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider. Roughly one out of every four abortions in America is carried out in a Planned Parenthood facility. Data shows that since one nine hundred seventy Planned Parenthood has performed more than six million abortions and twenty thirteen alone parent. Planned Parenthood performed a record. Three hundred fifty seven thousand six hundred fifty three abortions. Planned Parenthood’s business model was centered. Centered on abortion. Former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson has written that she was given an abortion quota. And was even told by are Sapir is to double the number of abortions in order to bring in more revenue. You think they’re for the family. No abortion patients constitute twelve percent of Planned Parenthood’s clients. Three hundred thirty two thousand of three hundred three million. And duplicated clients in the most current report. Thirty seven percent of all Planned Parenthood clinics. Income revenue is from abortion procedures. And that’s conservative estimates. They had been evil from their inception. They’re trying to control a population through a huge an extent. It’s about revenue. The exposure that they have been selling parts and insect bodies. To a biotech company is disturbing extremely disturbing. There’s a dozen The A ten ten videos currently al. I watch one the other night. It is disturbing. Stem Express is a for profit biotech supply company that has been partnering with Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. To purchase. Fetal parts. It’s been happening since two thousand and ten. SIMIC suppress Medical Director Ronald Berman is a no Borson doctor for Planned Parenthood. Talk about a conflict of interest in one of the videos. Kate Dyer to see over stem Express is shown at a lunch meeting with undercover operatives. Posing as representatives of a bot tech firm. Dyer is laughing about how stem cell purchases. Fully intact. Babies. And last about having them shipped and having to give warning to those that are delivering them. I have a question for Congressman for our leaders today. Not just why are we funding that praise the Lord they that the Congress did vote to defund it has to go through the Senate. But why are not criminal charges brought against them. It’s illegal what they’re doing. Why haven’t they brought charges against them is what I want to know what does the Bible say about it. Well it doesn’t mention abortion and Bible of course. But we know that our God is a God of life. He values life. Even the precious life of that unborn child God values it. It doesn’t matter what race it doesn’t matter how smart you are. That doesn’t matter how strong you are or how weak you are God loves you. God is a God of light. God knows the pre-born child. He says you need me in my mother’s womb. Nor is my frame on the phone to you when I was made in secret in Psalms one thirty nine thirteen and fifteen. It says God also helps us call. Help saying calls the pre-born child. You have been my God since I was first formed in my mother’s womb. YOU ARE MY GOD Soames twenty two ten eleven. In Job thirty one fifteen. It says Did did not he who made you in the womb. Make them did not the same ones fashion us in the womb. God knew them in the womb. And as a a forty four twenty four says the says the Lord your read Amer. And he who forms you from the womb. God knows you. He knew you when you was in your mother’s womb. He loved you when you was in your mother’s womb. He is the God of life. Jesus said in John ten ten. The thief. Does not come except to steal and to kill. And to destroy. He says I have come that they may have life. And that they may have more abundantly. The devil is a wanted has come to kill. God is come Jesus came that we might have life. Our God is a God of life. That’s what the Bible says about abortion. He is a God of life not death. In the vicus. I know this is not speaking about abortion is speaking not about another issue with children. The vicus eighteen twenty one says. Do not permit any of your children to be offered to this. Offered as a sacrifice to Molech for you must not bring shame on the name of your god. I am the Lord. He is telling the nation of Israel do not be like the heathen nations around you and sacrifice your children. My friends America sacrificing the children like the heathen nations you look at the number of abortions are we heed the nation. We need to cry out for that on board child that cannot cry out for itself. We need to get our needs for that unborn child. You know I know that the nation will never all be joined together in the fight against abortion. But the church must be united in that stand against abortion. We must be united. We must stand for. Who else is going to stand for. Who’s going to stand for the children that unborn child. But those who love life. Those who love the Lord will always have evil in the world will always have evil in this nation. Jesus alludes alludes to it in Matthew thirteen. Begin at verse thirty seven. He answered and said to them he who sews the good seed is the son of man. The field is the world. The good seeds are the sons of the kingdom. But the tears are the sons of the wicked one. The enemy who sews them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age in the reapers are the angels. Therefore as the tears are gathered and burned in the fire so it will be at the end of the age. The son a mammal send out his angels and they will gather out of the kingdom. All the things that offend and those who practice lawlessness and will cast them into the furnace a fire. There will be wailing and gassed gnashing of teeth. Then the right this will shine forth as a son in the King the mother father. He who has ears to hear them here. Evil will be present with us we know that until when. The end of the age until Jesus comes back as evidence of it because it will gather the tears and put them into bundles no be burned in the fire we know that the tears represents the evil people. So we know that they’re going to be among us. But we the church must be united. We must stand together. I know that will never get all of America to stand together. But church we need to get the information out we need to get the facts out we need to tell the people the truth that we as a nation might stand against such evil. We must declare the Word of God. The church must not be divided. We must stand for rights of Snit’s stand for the truth of God. Verse twenty nine in our passage said. Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods. Unless the first binds a strong man. And then he will plunder his house what is he talking about there. While I’m a tell you what he’s talking about Jesus entered the strong man’s house. He entered this world and he bound the strong man. And who’s a strong man. Satan. He bounced him and he defeated him. A man Jesus did not cast the demon out of that man by the power Satan. He cast it out of that man by the spirit of the Living God. He entered the world. He entered the world of Satan any band and he overcame him. By the power of the spear. Christ is the victor. He became the victor when he defeated death. When he rose up out of that grave. You cannot the not the spirt he said that in the passage you can speak. Last me. You can speak against the Son of man. But you cannot speak against the Holy Spirt. Because if you deny the Holy Spirit your did die in the power that rose Jesus from the grave. If you reviewed the Holy Spirit or did not in the power that can read it can cast out those demons that can heal. You cannot be not the power of the Holy Spirit. We have the victory. First Corinthians fifteen fifty three says. For this corruptible must put on incorruption. And this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruption has put on incorruption. And this mortar was put on immortality. Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory. Odette. Where is your sting of Hades. Where is your victory. We have the victory. We need to walk in it. We need to stand in it. We need to stand united for the truth of the Living God. We are is hands and feet. Yes. As we spoke in saddest call we put it into practice we are. We do the thing to lose the commandments. But we are also his voice. We need to speak the truth. It may offend some ID You might be rejected. But he was rejected. We must be willing to stand for the truth. The matter what the matter what may come against us and realize it doesn’t matter what comes against us in this age because we have the victory. And that which is the come. We had a victory over the second death. We had victory over we shall live eternally. When we believe in him. When we trust in him when we love him I men we must be united together.