Capital City Church - Part 1 — David Ravenhill

Spiritual Faithfulness Invites Spiritual Opposition

Now, chapter divisions, of course, were never part of the original manuscript, and sometimes they don't come at the best time, so let me keep on reading. He did well with all of his heart and he prospered.

After these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, came. He invaded Judah, besieged the fortified cities, sought to break into them for himself. Now notice, after these acts of faithfulness, not after these acts of rebellion, not after these acts of stubbornness, not after these acts of disobedience, but after these acts of faithfulness, the enemy shows up.

A good sign that you are prospering spiritually is that you are under the attack of the enemy. In fact, if the enemy is not attacking, you should be asking why. If you are not a threat to the devil, something is wrong.

My father went to one year of Bible college. He credits the fact that he only went to one year for his success. He didn't have to unlearn. But he went to a Methodist school, sat under a very godly old saint of a man by the name of Samuel Chadwick.

Samuel Chadwick was a real revivalist. He was a man of prayer, wrote a number of books on prayer. It was an all-male school, no distractions. And on the weekend, they were sent out on preaching assignments to get a little bit of experience.

And they had these various Methodist churches in the Yorkshire area of England that they were assigned to. And this godly old man would assemble them together in the chapel, and he would give them their various assignments for the weekend.

And then he would give them a brief word of exhortation. And my father said, then he would close in prayer. And at the end of his prayer, he would pronounce his benediction, and then he would pause. And then he would add, go, and may the devil go with you.

And then he would pause again and say, because if the devil doesn't go with you, you're not worth sending. That man understood something. Our job is to give the devil a headache in that sense. And if we are not giving him a constant sort of black eye, if we're not plundering his camp, something is wrong.

If we are, he's not gonna just sit there passively and say, help yourself to my kids. Here is a man that is prospering spiritually. Here is a man that has torn down all the altars that his father erected to Baal and all the other gods and all the idolatries, cleaned up the house of God.

And you think the enemy likes all that? Think the enemy enjoys revival? He's just gonna sit there and say, boy, this is great. You know, revival. I don't think so. And so now the enemy comes and he is heading towards Jerusalem and he intends to make war on it.

Notice in verse two, Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to make war on Jerusalem. That's the city the king is living in. Now, before we go any further, keep your finger there.

God’s Protection of Young Believers

And I want to take you to two scriptures. Let's go back to Exodus for a moment. Exodus chapter 13, verse 17. Now it came about when Pharaoh had let the people go, the God did not lead them by the way at the land of the Philistines, even though it was nearer or closer.

For God said, let's the people change their minds when they see war and they returned to Egypt. Now, the children of Israel in typology have just been redeemed by the blood of the lamb. In other words, they're just babes in Christ.

They don't really know this God. They've seen the power of God manifest, but they don't really know him. That was the reason they went through the wilderness so God could teach them and give them his law and instruction and so on and so forth.

He says, I've, you know, born you on eagle's wings to bring you unto myself. But at this stage, all they know is that they are redeemed by the blood of the lamb. They're new Christians, if we could put it in a New Testament context.

But they are also babes in Christ. And God's purpose is to take them from where they are, which is Egypt, right through the promised land, right through the wilderness into the promised land. And he looks, and obviously the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The problem is a straight line went right through the land of the Philistines. And God looks at the situation and he says, if I take them that way, that's the closest way to get where I want them to go.

There's gonna be war. But my children are not ready for war yet. And therefore, I'm gonna bypass the problem. God is a father. And just as you that have got children, you know that when you go downtown, you don't send that little toddler two or three years ahead of you to cross the busy intersection because he cannot grapple with Mack trucks and logging trucks or whatever it is.

And so you pick up that little one, cradle that little one in your arms, walk across that busy intersection, because you know that little toddler is not capable of handling that sort of complex situation at that age.

God looks at the situation and says, if my people get into the Philistine area, there's gonna be war and they don't know how to fight. So therefore, we have to bypass the problem. Now, let's go into the book of Judges, chapter three.

This is the same father, same God, children of Israel. Verse one, now these are the nations which the Lord left to test Israel by them. That is all those who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan.

In order that the generation of the, excuse me, in order that the generation of the sons of Israel might be taught war, those who had not experienced it formally. These nations are, notice number one, the Philistines.

Verse one again, these are the nations which the Lord left to test Israel. Those who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan in order that they may be taught war. In other words, there is a time when God will bypass the problem.

There is another time when God will leave the problem directly in front of you and said, it is now time for you to face the enemy. There is the Philistine, I've left him there because some of you have never learned how to fight.

Now, I know you didn't come to hear that good news tonight. But our oldest daughter is a missionary in China. Her first year of school was in New Guinea. My wife and I were missionaries there in the early 70s.

She went to an Australian army school called Murray Barracks. It was close by the house where we lived. And she came home from school one day with her first assignment in math. She had a sheet of problems that she had to do as part of her homework.

Two plus two equals, three plus two equals, four minus one equals, three plus three equals, and so on. She came to me and said, daddy, I've got all this work to do, this homework. Would you help me? Now, I could have taken that sheet and literally in a matter of 30, 40 seconds solved all of their problems.

Two plus two is four, three minus one is two, and just, here, Lisa, go and play. But I realized that she was now in a new phase of her life. She was no longer jumping on the trampoline, playing with dolls.

She now had to get an education. And so I said to her, Lisa, you need to solve these problems yourself. What is two plus two? I don't know, daddy, I don't know. Can I go out and play? You know, after a few minutes, we solved this major problem, two plus two.

Went to the next one, three plus two. I don't know, daddy, I don't wanna do this. About an hour later, she solved all of those problems. She has a degree today. I don't. But you see, if I'd have solved her problems, I'd have been getting letters from college.

Dear dad, here's your next assignment. Make sure you have it in by Friday of next week. And by the way, dad, we just were told today that there is a major project due by the end of the semester. I'll have details in my next letter so you have plenty of time to work on it.

Now we laugh, don't we? They think that's ridiculous. But basically, that's what this front row is employed to do. Pastor, solve my problem. Pastor, pray for me. Pastor, help me. Pastor, there's been times where I have sat down with one of my parishioners, I guess you would say, who have come into my office and expected me to solve their problem.

Come in with a problem, expected me to lay hands on them and impart or depart something. And 10 minutes later, go out with their problem solved. And I have sat there and I've looked at them in a loving pastoral way and saying, listen, I believe God has given you a Philistine.

And if I kill it, you will never learn war. And God has left you with this problem so you can learn to fast and pray, so you can learn to use your concordance, so you can learn to bend your knees and get in the place of prayer, so you can cry out to God.

But if I solve it for you, you'll never grow. In the book of Revelation, the bride is likened to a city. That city comes down out of heaven and you know that the Bible says that that city had 12 gates.

Those gates are only made of one substance, not made of gold, not made of brass, not made of iron or stainless steel or tin or some other sort of metal. What are they made of? Pearl. Why does God say that every gate is made of a pearl?

Was he just in a sort of, you know, pearly mood or whatever? What is a pearl? A pearl is a problem that's been overcome. Every genuine pearl is created because of a problem. I've never been an oyster, but you know, if I was, you know, that little bit of grit gets in my shell and I guess it can either irritate me to death and bug me to death or I can secrete that substance and turn what is an irritant into something of incredible value.

And the book of Revelation is all about overcoming. To him that overcomes, overcome, overcome, overcome, even as I had to overcome, Jesus said. In other words, symbolically, God is looking for a company of overcomers.

Again, he's looking for a bride, not a whizzed up little fearful bride, but a co-regent, somebody that can reign and rule with him. One day, we are going to marry the king of kings. We got to learn how to reign.

One day, we're gonna marry the captain of the host. We got to learn how to fight. One day, we're gonna marry the great physician. We got to learn how to bind up one another's wounds. One day, we're gonna marry the judge of all the earth.

We got to learn how to pass righteous judgment. One day, we're gonna marry the great shepherd of the sheep. We got to know how to love the flock and so on and so forth. And this is a dress rehearsal, if you like, for eternity.

And God allows certain things in our life to prepare us, to develop us and so on. And sometimes he will leave a Philistine in front of us and he says, you have not yet learned how to fight. It's time no longer gonna bypass the problem.

You are now at an age, you know, where I can no longer carry you across the road. When's the last time you carried your 21-year-old across the road? You do that with a two-year-old, you don't do it with a 22-year-old.

And God doesn't do it either. This chapter now, if we can go back to it, is all about overcoming. How does Hezekiah overcome the strategy of the enemy? The strategy of the enemy is to overcome him. The enemy wants to get you back.

There are two individuals, if you like, two kings in one sense that are after your life, King Jesus and King Satan, if I can give him that title. The first thing that Hezekiah does, he recognizes that he has an enemy.

Recognizing and Resisting the Enemy

Verse two, when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he intended to make war on Jerusalem. First thing you and I have to do is recognize we have an enemy. And that enemy is out to make war on your life and on my life.

He's making war on the life of a godly man. And the enemy will do everything within his power to sort of sabotage, if you like, what God is doing in your life. Bring fear, doubt, insecurity, try and lure you back into sin, get you to compromise.

Whatever he can do, he will do. He is your adversary, the devil. And he is good at what he does. And we need to recognize that he is a serious threat. He wants to make war. So first thing that Hezekiah does, he recognizes he has an enemy.

The second thing he does, verse three, he decided with his officers and his warriors to do something about it. In other words, he is not passive. He doesn't just sort of fold his arm and say, case or us or whatever will be, will be.

If it's Allah's will, no. He is serious. I am not going to allow the enemy to do what he intends to do. And he made a conscious decision to combat what the enemy is about to do. And so the thing that he does, he gathers together with his leaders, his warriors, and they cut off the supply of water from the springs which were outside the city, and they helped him.

Many people assembled, verse four, they stuffed up all the springs and the stream which flowed through the region, saying, why should the king of Assyria come and find an abundance of water? This was one of the great strategies of war.

You remember in the Old Testament, we don't have this problem today because we get so used to turn on the faucet and there's a supply of water. But you go to other countries, India and other places, and those entire villages built around one well, a water supply, and many hours a day they spend lining up at that well, getting their water buckets and so on, putting them on their head, walking back to their little either village or little hut somewhere because water is essential for life.

You cannot live without water. You may be able to go a few days without food, but you cannot go many days without water. And one of the strategies of war was that you would destroy the source of water.

Remember Abraham or Isaac rather, had to dig again the wells that Abraham dug because what, the Philistines filled them in. So what you would do, you would fill in somebody's well and therefore he had to go to another well while he was gone, you would sort of stake your claim and take over his territory.

It was one of the ways in which they conquered cities and so on. And so Hezekiah looks at the city and he says, we've got a problem. Round this city, we have a supply of water. Not only do we have a river that runs through the region, but we have got springs.

And if the Sennacherib comes, he's gonna find an abundance of water. And if there is an abundance of water, he can camp round about the city of Jerusalem and remain camp there. He doesn't have to go anywhere because there is a water supply.

And so what we have to do is cut off that which supplies life to the enemy, what we call in the New Testament repentance. What is it that issues out of my life that feeds the enemy? Jesus said, Satan cometh and what?

He has nothing in me. I do not feed him. He has no legal right, no legal ground. So I have to remove that which will sustain the life of the enemy. What sustains the life of the enemy? Maybe your anger, maybe your bitterness, maybe your unforgiveness, maybe your pornography.

Whatever it is, you need to take drastic measures and cut it off. Now, this is not easy. I tell people, I am a teacher. I'll tell you the truth. I'm not an evangelist. I won't lie. Well, you understand what I mean by that.

You know, evangelists put a spin on things and it sounds so good that it's almost irresistible the way they make the altar call. You know, come to Jesus tonight, all your problems will be solved and you know, blah, blah, blah.

And you think, wow, this is incredible. And us teachers sit there and say, boy, if you only knew what you're getting yourself into. Yeah, he's gonna slap you on that wheel there and he's the master potter and he's gonna put pressure on you and he's gonna conform you to the image of his son.

But if we told you that upfront, you'd never get saved. So, you know, the evangelist comes along with this incredible sort of deal that you're irresistible and then us pastors and teachers have to clean you up afterwards.

We got to sort of gut the fish and so on after they catch it. So let me tell you, it is not easy to fill in a spring or to divert a river. These are not puddles. These are springs. There's light, there's force if you like.

You don't just take a barrel full of sand and dump it there and it absorbs it and that's it. No, this is a spring that has to be capped or stopped. This is a river. If you've ever tried to divert a river, you take the kids out to some little country place where there's a little bit of a stream and you want them to wait around.

And so you take the rocks and you begin to make it like a little waiting pool. And you know how almost impossible it is to stop that river. The water seems to get through and you get some mud and so on.

I mean, this is diverting an entire river. I say that to say this, this is how determined this man is. In other words, this is a major, major thing. I know you can read it in just 10 seconds. So they stopped at the springs and the river or the stream that flowed through the region.

But we've got to take again, those drastic measures of cutting off that which enables the enemy to survive. I'm sure some of you may not be cat lovers. Others of you may, but maybe all of us at some time or other, have opened the door on a cold winter night or morning and there is a little kitten or cat that somehow got strayed and you take pity on that poor critter and you go to the refrigerator and a little bowl of milk and put it down there.

And guess what? You now have a problem. Every time you open that door, those little eyes are looking up at you, and you think I should never have fed that thing to begin with. But now that I've fed it, I cannot get rid of it unless I take drastic measures and just have to overlook those woeful, pitiful little eyes that look up and just, right?

We have to do the same thing with the enemy. Do not feed the enemy. The next thing he does, verse five, he took courage and he rebuilt all the wall that had been broken down. Again, this is not easy. Number one, he has to be honest.

This is where honesty comes in. He goes around the walls of Jerusalem, somewhat like Nehemiah, I don't think they were quite as bad as they were in Nehemiah's day, but he has to go around and he has to identify areas of vulnerability, areas of weakness.

There's a low spot in the wall. There's a crack in the wall there. There's some rocks that are missing over there, weakness there. Here's another area of weakness. If the enemy comes, these are the places where he can break through.

These are the areas where we are most vulnerable. And every single one of us in this room have got areas of vulnerability, what the Bible calls our besetting sin. And those are the areas that have to be fortified.

And it is not, again, an easy job to strengthen those areas of weakness. You see, the one thing about the enemy, he is not omniscient. He doesn't know everything there is to know like God, but he does know everything about you.

And the way he knows that is he's a fisherman. Any fishermen here? Good, okay. And what he does, he comes along with his tackle box and he puts a lure on the end of that line and he casts it into your life.

And he trolls it through your mind, let's say it's anger. And two or three casts or four or five, and he thinks, not working. This guy is not biting. He's not attracted to this particular problem of anger.

Puts the lure back, takes another lure. Let's say it's lust. Puts that on, yeah, ha-ha. This guy's got a problem. He then writes down in his little palm pilot, if you like, you know, Johnny Brown, lust.

He may go through his tackle box and after a while he knows exactly your weakness. And that's why he constantly fishes with the same thing. He is smart. He's not gonna bother you with anger because he knows you don't have a problem with anger.

But boy, once he finds your besetting sin, he is not gonna let you go. And he will fish away with that thing and get you just tied up in knots of condemnation and so on and so forth because he's found your Achilles heel, so to speak.

And what you've gotta do, number one, is be honest and say, listen, I have a problem. With this area, this is a weakness, there's a weakness, there's a weakness, and I have to rebuild that wall. Let's look at how you rebuild a wall.

Rebuilding the Wall Through Opposite Obedience

Turn with me to the book of Ephesians. Keep your finger there and we'll come back to it in a moment. Ephesians chapter four, verse 27, do not give the devil a place. Verse 28, let him that steals, steal no longer.

Now here's an individual who obviously his problem is stealing. Now this guy's problem is not just stealing for the fun of it. You get teenagers and they dare one another, I bet you can't go into Walmart and walk out with a pack of cigarettes or something.

And the kid loves the dare and five minutes later he's out there flashing his cigarettes, say, I told you I could do it. Gets a little buzz out of it. Obviously that's wrong. But this man stole instead of worked.

How do we know? Because of what Paul says. Let him that steals, steal no longer. Then that does not solve the problem, that just identifies the problem. He says, the way you solve the problem, he says, get a job.

Let him labor, performing with his own hands what is good. In other words, this man has spent his lifetime ripping people off, as we would say. Breaking into their homes, taking their jewelry, electronics, whatever it is, if we can modernize it, and just making people's lives miserable.

When my wife and I got married in 1964, our very first job was to work with David Wilkerson in New York City. And one of the jobs I had, along with another friend of mine, was to go to a place called Rikers Island.

It's one of the islands in New York where they have one of the largest penitentiaries in New York City. There was something like 6 ,000 inmates in that penitentiary and about 90 of them were in for drug offenses.

The drug of choice back then, I don't know what it is these days, but the drug of choice in those days was heroin. And the average addict had between a $100 and $200 a day habit, which meant he had to steal four or $500 worth of material in order to support his habit.

So he'd break into a church like this and walk off with these speakers and maybe the keyboard, and maybe to replace that, let's say that would cost $2 ,000. But on the street, he's not gonna get $2 ,000 for it.

He's gonna get maybe, what, $200, $300 for it the most, because otherwise you'd go and you'd buy a brand new one. And so in order to support a $100, $200 a habit, he had to steal five, six, $700 worth of material.

And there were 6 ,000 inmates and that was just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine in just one day, the destructive value of the drug problem in New York City. People coming home, opening their apartments only to find out that their jewelry's gone, your electronics have been stolen, keyboard, whatever it is of value has been stolen.

The amount of pain inflicted in one day on New York City by the drug kids alone. Amazing. And this man has spent his life stealing instead of working. Paul says, you gotta stop. Number two, the next thing you've gotta get a job.

Start laboring with your own hands. Then he says, performing with your own hands what is good in order that you may have something to give or something to share with a person that has a need. Now Paul says, start giving.

Let's assume that this guy, and we need to understand, you think, how could somebody go to church and not know it was wrong to steal? Well, I think it's William Barclay that says, if we understand the New Testament church, it's this minority in many ways surrounded by a majority of heathenism.

And so the church is obviously picking up steam, but people are coming into the church and maybe here's a guy that his whole life has been spent stealing. And one day Paul talks about stealing. He says, boy, that's news to me.

I didn't know that was wrong. And he says, what should I do about it? And Paul says, you stop today, get yourself a job and so on. You know, a few weeks later, he testifies and said, I've got a great job.

I've never had so much money, obviously single. And he says, what do I do? And Paul says, I'll tell you what to do. You see that lady on the back row? You know, husband died a few weeks ago. She's got three little toddlers.

She's having difficulty making ends meet. We've been trying to help her as a church, support her a little bit. But you know, Johnny's got a birthday coming up, her oldest boy, and he's been talking about, you know, rollerblades or whatever the equivalent was in the New Testament.

I'll tell you what you do. You go down to Walmart, buy some rollerblades and give them to Johnny for his birthday because I know she can't afford to give him some. He's gonna be incredibly disappointed.

So why don't you write him a little note? Dear Johnny, you know, sorry to hear that your daddy has been killed. But I want you to know there's another daddy that's promised to look after you. Happy birthday.

And Paul says, by the way, don't sign it. I mean, in essence, that's what Paul is saying here. Look for needs and begin to give. That's how you build the wall. You operate in the entirely opposite spirit.

This man has been taking everything is about me and mine and ripping you off. Now he starts to give. He gets a job and he starts to give. That may not be a problem. I hope it isn't. Next one, maybe. Verse 29.

Let no unwholesome word proceed out of your mouth. The margin of my Bible says, let no rotten word literally come out of your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification, according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those that hear.

My dad used to say the tongue being in a wet place is very apt to slip. Some of you may have that problem. And you know, we love, certain people love the latest gossip and it's very easy, isn't it, to just tear down somebody and spread all the muck and mire around, so to speak.

And Paul says, stop doing that. It is destructive. Instead, a word of edification. You see, it is the opposite. You've been, you know, you've been destroying people's personalities. You know, guess what?

Have you heard about Mrs. Brown? No, what's happened? Well, you know, Susie, her daughter? Yeah. Well, she's pregnant. Oh no. You know, and the news spreads all over. Instead, you should call up and say, listen, why don't we do something for Mrs. Brown?

Her daughter's pregnant. I can't imagine what she's going through. We need to pray. We need to support her. You know, I want to go over there and just console her a little bit, be with her at this time.

This is the most, you know. I mean, there's always a different reaction. Edify, try and build up instead of tearing down. The next one, verse 30. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

How do you grieve the Spirit? By allowing bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, slander. He says, put it away from you along with all malice and be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving. You grieve the Holy Spirit when you are not willing to forgive.

And instead you allow bitterness and anger and wrath and all these things to just fester away towards that individual. And Paul says, get rid of that. Be tenderhearted, be kind, be compassionate, be forgiving because God at least did that for you.

The least you can do is turn now and do that for somebody else. There you have, if you like, three separate problems that are overcome. First of all, the need, the problem, stop doing it, but that doesn't rebuild the wall.

Stop doing it is good, but it doesn't rebuild the wall. You rebuild the wall by doing the opposite. And so we have to rebuild the wall. Whatever your weakness is, you know, find the opposite of it and stop practicing that.

As pastor said, you know, holiness unto the Lord. If you've had a problem with uncleanness, then confess the very opposite, you know. The next thing he does, verse five, we're back now in 2 Chronicles.

Watchfulness, Spiritual Weapons, and the Armor of God

He erected towers on it. He rebuilt the wall and he erected towers on it. Now, I don't know, I have not done any more research into this, whether Hezekiah was the first one to erect towers on the walls of Jerusalem or whether they'd been broken down and he rebuilt them, but it says here he erected them.

So I'm assuming he was the one that built the towers. Now, the towers were an early warning system. All across America and no doubt Canada, we have huge satellite dishes at strategic places that sort of constantly are scanning the heavens in case, you know, one of these rogue nations, North Korea somewhere, launches an attack and we can hopefully blast that thing to smithereens before it lands in North America, you know.

We have surveillance on all the time. In the Old Testament, obviously they didn't have all that sophisticated electronic gadgetry and so they had watchmen. And the watchman would be in the tower. He would have the vantage point.

Obviously, he was towering above everybody else and his job was to scan the horizon, you know, a certain area, another watchman, this area, another watchman, this area, depending on the size of the city, you know, different watchmen.

And if he saw a cloud of dust on the horizon, he had to discern, is this an advancing army? Are we in trouble or is this a bunch of camels and the, you know, traders coming to the local bazaar to, you know, sell their spices or whatever.

And once he determined that it was an advancing army, he would sound the alarm. He would blow that trumpet and then somebody else would pick it up, somebody else, and around that city, the warning would go out to the people out in the fields with their flocks and so on.

They would gather their things together. They would head back in. The last one in, of course, they would lock the gates and they were safe, why? Because somebody sounded the alarm. We need to do the same thing.

The Bible says in the New Testament, the equivalent of the watchtower is be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, goes around as a roaring lion. Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. We have all sorts of admonitions to be alert, to be watchful of the enemy.

In other words, we can precipitate, if you like, what the enemy is about to do and cut him off at the pass, so to speak. And so he builds these watchtowers and he establishes somebody in them. We need to have that same mentality.

Everything in America, and I'm sure Canada, has changed since 9 -11. Before that, we were convinced that we are the greatest power in the world. We've got the greatest weaponry and so on and so forth and all of this, and nobody's gonna touch us.

We're American, sort of thing. And after 9 -11, we realized, listen, we are vulnerable. And now we are on the alert. You go to any airport, there's all the screening and so on, orange, and all the different degrees of alertness, and we're constantly vigilant.

And we've gotta be the same. We've gotta constantly watch out for the attack of the enemy. If we were literally at war right now, we would not just sort of walk out of this building at the end of the meeting.

We'd have guards or somebody out there, come on, it's safe, right now, right? We'd have a totally different approach, but we are under attack. The enemy is alive and well, and he is gonna set up things, the spiritual landmines, if you like, and we've gotta be, the Bible says, we should not be ignorant concerning his devices, concerning his methods.

And he's got all these, if you like, booby traps for us. World Wide Web is one of them. You can type certain things in before you know it, you're on some pornographic website. And we've gotta guard against it.

Pastor told me about his daughter, I think she was about 10 or 11, had to do a project on small animals or something, type something in about small animals, and before she knew it, she was on a website about bestiality.

I mean, all sorts of tricks that the enemy has now. Thankfully, she didn't know anything about it and asked her daddy, and of course, he shut it down quickly. But it's amazing how the enemy is just so deceitful.

Even somebody did a report on the White House, before you know it, you're into something about Monica Lewinsky. That was a few years ago. But something as innocent as just typing in about doing some research about the White House.

I mean, there's all sorts of things the enemy is doing, and we've gotta be aware of it. So he erected towers. The next thing he does in verse five, he made weapons and shields in great number. Now, you'll notice that up until now, he has been defending himself.