The Faint Of Heart Degeneration - Part 4
By Pastor David Roberts
We Need To Follow
PHYLYPSIYAH - PHILIPPIANS 3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
PHYLYPSIYAH - PHILIPPIANS 3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as you have us for an example.
Follow Those That Walk In Truth And Righteousness
TESLONIQYAH -2- THESSALONIANS 3:7 For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
TESLONIQYAH -2- THESSALONIANS 3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
TESLONIQYAH -2- THESSALONIANS 3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example to you to follow us.
TESLONIQYAH -2- THESSALONIANS 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
YAHWEH Delivered The Righteous Only
KEPHA -2- PETER 2:4 For if YAHWEH spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;
KEPHA -2- PETER 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
KEPHA -2- PETER 2:6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example to those that after should live wickedly;
KEPHA -2- PETER 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the torahless wicked:
The State Of The Fainthearted
SIRACH 2:13 Woe to him that is fainthearted! for it has no trust! Therefore it will not be sheltered and defended.
MISHLE - PROVERBS 24:10 If you faint {raw-faw' sink down, abate, be disheartened, to show oneself slack} in the day of adversity {tsaw-raw' straits, distress, trouble} your strength {ko'-akh' power, might, vigor} is small.
Succoth And Penuel Refuse To Relieve Gid'own (Gideon)
SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 8:4 And Gideon "hewer" came to Yardan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him,
faint {aw-yafe' weary} yet pursuing them.
SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 8:5 And he said to the men of Succoth {sook-kohth' booths} , Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people that follow me; for they are faint {aw-yafe'} and I am pursuing {raw-daf' to persecute, harass} after Zebah {zeh'-bakh' deprived of protection} and Zalmunna {tsal-moon-naw' shade has been denied}, kings of Midian {mid-yawn' strife}.
* {sook-kohth'}1st stopping place of the YisraYahlites when they left Egypt.
SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 8:6 And the princes {sar' ruler, leader, chief, chieftain, official} of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army.
SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when YHWH has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear {doosh' trample} your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 8:8 And he went up there to Penuel {pen-oo-ale' facing YHWH} and spoke to them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.
SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 8:9 And he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in shalom, I will break down this tower {mig-dawl' strong place}.
SHOPHETIM - JUDGES 8:10 Now Zebah {zeh'-bakh' deprived of protection} and Zalmunna {tsal-moon-naw' shade has been denied} were in
Karkor {kar-kore' foundation} and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword
* Gideon Avenges His Brethren.
The Wickedness of HIS People and the Consequences
DEBARIM - DEUTERONOMY 28:64 And YHWH shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even to the other; and there you shall serve the gods, which neither you nor your ahvot have known, even wood and stone.
DEBARIM - DEUTERONOMY 28:65 And among these nations shall you find no ease {raw-gah' rest}, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest: but YHWH shall give you there a trembling {rag-gawz'} lev, and failing of eyes, and sorrow {deh-aw-bone' fainting, pining, languishing, faintness} of mind.
DEBARIM - DEUTERONOMY 28:66 And your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear day and night, and shall have none assurance of your life.
The People Reproved For Their Evil Practices
MALACHYAH - MALACHI 2:16 For YHWH, the Sovereign Ruler of YisraYah says that he hates putting away:- divorce: for one covers violence with his garment, says YHWH of hosts: therefore take heed to your ruach, that you deal not treacherously {baw-gad' faithlessly, deceitfully, transgress}.
MALACHYAH - MALACHI 2:17 You have wearied {yaw-gah' make to toil} YHWH with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied HIM? When you say, Every one that does evil is tov in the sight of YHWH, and he delights in them; or, Where is YHWH of judgment.
Assembly At Ephesus
GILYAHNA - REVELATION 2:1 To the malak of the congregation of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;
GILYAHNA - REVELATION 2:2 I know your works, and your labor, and your patience, and how you can not bear them which are evil: and you have tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and has found them liars.
GILYAHNA - REVELATION 2:3 And has borne, and has patience, and for MY Name's sake have labored, and has not fainted {deh-aw-baw' dismay, failure of mental energy} .
Judgments Upon The Chaldeans
CHABAKOOK - HABAKKUK 2:12 Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by injustice {eh'-vel' violent deeds, perverseness, unjust}.
CHABAKOOK - HABAKKUK 2:13 Behold, is it not of YHWH of hosts that the people shall labor in the very fire, and the people shall weary {yaw-af' fatigued, be faint, wearisome } themselves for vanity-nothing.
The end-time anti-Moshiach
ZECHARIYAH - ZECHARIAH 11:17 Woe to the idol shepherd that leaves {aw-zab'} the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly.
darkened {kaw-haw' to grow weak, grow dim, grow faint, falter, be weak, be dim, be darkened, be restrained}.
David's Desire Toward YHWH
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 63:1 O YHWH, YOU are my Mighty One; early will I seek YOU: my {neh'-fesh} thirsts for YOU, my flesh longs {kaw-mah' faint with longing} for YOU in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 63:2 To see YOUR power and YOUR splendor, so as I have seen YOU in the Kadosh-Place.
Rahab And The Spies - Yericho
YEHOSHUA BEN NUN - JOSHUA 2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up to them upon the roof YEHOSHUA BEN NUN - JOSHUA 2:9 And she said to the men, I know that YHWH has given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint {moog' to soften, dissolve, dissipate, melt} because of you.
Nineveh's Destruction Foretold
NACHUM - NAHUM 2:10 She is empty {boo-kaw' emptiness} and void {meb-oo-kah'} and waste {baw-lak' devastate} and the heart melts {maw-sas' vanish, drop off, grow fearful, worthless} , and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness {paw-roor' glow}.
Warnings Against Disobedience
WAYYIORA - LEVITICUS 26:36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness {mo'-rek' weakness, softness} into their levim in the lands of their enemies {o-yabe'}; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.
The great Pains that shall befall a Disobedient People
EKHAH - LAMENTATIONS 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence {daw-man' be still, wait, be dumb, grow dumb} they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Yahrushalayim hang down their heads to the ground.
EKHAH - LAMENTATIONS 2:11 My eyes do fail {kaw-law' vanish, perish} with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the infants swoon {aw-taf' feeble, be faint, overwhelmed} in the streets of the city.
EKHAH - LAMENTATIONS 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned {aw-taf' feeble, be faint, overwhelmed} as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
Dawid's Confession to YHWH
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 38:5 My wounds {khab-boo-raw'} stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness {iv-veh'-leth}.
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 38:6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 38:7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease and there is no soundness in my flesh.
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 38:8 I am feeble {poog' grow numb, faint, be slacked} and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the stress of my lev.
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 38:9 Sovereign YHWH, all my desire is before YOU and my groaning is not hid from YOU.
TEHILLIM - PSALMS 38:10 My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
How can you maintain the Strength without Fainting?
EPHSIYAH - EPHESIANS 6:10 Finally, my Yisraelite brothers, be strong in YAHSHUA, and in the power of HIS might.