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  LITTLE THINGS OF SCRIPTURE
  by Keith Malcomson
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of little things in
Scripture, drawing lessons from Proverbs 30 about the wisdom displayed
by small and seemingly insignificant creatures like ants, colonies,
locusts, and spiders. It highlights the value of righteousness with
little, the fear of the Lord over great treasure, and the significance
of being weaned from the milk of God's Word to understand doctrine
through precepts and lines, little by little.

Topics: "Wisdom in the Little Things", "Value of Righteousness"
Scripture References: Psalms 37:16, Proverbs 15:16, Isaiah 28:9, Isaiah 28:10

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of little things in Scripture,
drawing lessons from Proverbs 30 about the wisdom displayed by small and
seemingly insignificant creatures like ants, colonies, locusts, and
spiders. It highlights the value of righteousness with little, the fear
of the Lord over great treasure, and the significance of being weaned
from the milk of God's Word to understand doctrine through precepts and
lines, little by little.

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Here tonight I want you to turn in your Bible to Proverbs chapter 30
Proverbs 30 and as you do I just want to thank you online and here just
for your prayers over these weeks. Do appreciate it during being away
and then sick and all the rest and prayers are absolutely vital in the
work of God and we need them and we pray that the Lord will move in our
lives. Those that are still fighting sickness pray for them that God
will retouch them and raise them up and we do we are so grateful for all
of those online in different places in different countries that God is
dealing with and our entire world is going through something where we
are passing through this together no matter where we live or where we
are at it's an utterly unique hour.

Turn into Proverbs 30 and I told you in the weeks before that I was
gonna preach a little series or something that effect and you're trying
to find out what is this little series or preaching on something little
and it's hard for you to believe I'll preach a little series and it's
hard for you to believe I'll preach a little message but I want to tell
you here that my subject is little. That's what my subject is that's
what the theme of our new series and of this message tonight reading
from Proverbs 30. Brother Soph already knows where I'm going to in a
little part of he says he doesn't then there's he's wrong he ought to
but reading from Proverbs 30 and this is my message tonight and this is
the beginning of a new series that I just want to simply give simple
exhortations for this hour that I believe are very very important and
this my title little things of Scripture little things of Scripture
reading from Proverbs chapter 30 verse 24 just four verses here tonight
as we open up Proverbs chapter 30 and verse 24 you got it in the end
there be four things which are little upon the earth but they are
exceeding wise the answer of people not strong yet they prepare their
mate in this in the summer the colonies are but a feeble folk yet they
make their houses in the rocks the locusts have no King yet they go
forth all of them by bands and then forth and lastly the spider taketh
hold with her hands and is in Kings palaces please pray with me here
tonight father we do thank you for the word of God we thank you nor God
for these times where we come together nor God we do not despise the day
of small things because oh God we know all through biblical history and
all through church history you've done remarkable things nor God through
little people little ladies Lord God through little faith through little
gatherings and oh God we do not despise not work which we know and our
confidence from you here for a few moments my God show us the importance
of little things from the Bible by the teaching of the Holy Spirit in
Jesus mighty name amen my message little things of scripture and I'm
laying a foundation here I actually came prepared with two messages and
I had a change midway so I've got to hear and depending on what happens
tonight but I want to lay a foundation all I'm doing is stirring up your
mind your heart your thoughts your feelings the remembrance of your own
life to pinpoint one thing from scripture little things I want to
emphasize it I want you to become aware tonight before we go into other
things because I'm going to get very specific and deal with very
important things but here tonight I want you to get an awareness that
the Holy Spirit God the creator of all things counts little things to be
important things in fact I'd go much further that there is a complete
biblical teaching doctrine theology from Genesis to Revelation about
little things let me just stir you up for a second the Bible talks about
the danger of a little sleep the danger of a little folly it several
times talks about and gives us stories about a little lady and something
remarkable coming out of that when we go to the New Testament we read at
least four times concerning four different kinds of dangerous leaven it
says a little leaven the Bible also talks not only about great faith but
little faith with all these things we begin to see the importance of
little things within the Bible the New Testament Jesus teaches again
about being faithful and little things he also going to the book of
James we read about the danger of a little member which is your tongue
in fact James goes to great lengths to emphasize how dangerous this very
little member in fact it's more dangerous than anything else and I'm
sure we'll get there at some point and then you come over to the book of
Revelation and you read about a little book in the hand of the Lamb of
God what a remarkable book it may be a little book it may be an
insignificant book a book rejected and mocked by this generation and yet
what a dynamic book that's molded our world we also read in the Old
Testament about the danger of despising the day of small things so it's
not only the word little that we're looking at in this these messages
it's the word little it is the word small do not despise the day of
small things there are days which in the church are days of small things
be very careful how you think about them you see what I'm telling you is
little things are very important you cannot miss this if you treat
little things as unimportant things you're on very dangerous ground if
you treat little things as secondary issues rather than primary issues
you're really going to make a lot of mistakes if you don't invest in
small things if you don't emphasize small things if you don't watch over
small things you'll really get yourself in trouble James also uses the
example of a very small helm or rudder and a ship they can steer a great
ship by a very small instrument small things can move large things small
insignificant people can change nations again reading about Christ in
the New Testament we read about the boy with loose and fishes so we not
only read about little things and small things but we have stories that
talk about little things they don't call them little they don't call
them small but here's a little boy and he has a little dinner he has his
bread and his fish and if you're not careful you could miss a miracle do
you remember what Christ asked the disciples what are we gonna do with
all this crowd 5,000 10,000 all out here nothing to feed them with what
are you gonna do well you know what all they could do is bring this
little boy and they almost missed it can you imagine seeing the need
seeing the thousands seeing the danger and you look at this little boy
and his dinner and you say it's nothing it's nothing do you see the
danger when you begin to go into this and I'm I'm giving you an overview
here I want you to understand the importance of little things small
things insignificant things it's all through the Bible in fact it's
dominant do you know what that shows me the Holy Spirit of God who
inspired this book is trying to get a message across when we go to some
of the greatest acts in the Bible it's remarkable you remember how God
sends Moses to Pharaoh what does he give him in his hand a rod when
David goes to fight Goliath what does he have in his hand a slingshot
when Shamgar rises up in his generation to stand against 600 of the
enemy what does he have in his hand he has an old ox good when Samson
rises up against the Philistines what does he use to slay a thousand the
jaw of an ass when you begin looking at the mind of God and the plan of
God and the purpose of God you see that little things play a central
significant and important role little circumstances of life and we're
going to look at some of them over these weeks little circumstance
little individuals happen chance meetings with someone else being at a
certain place at a certain time that was utterly unique in your life
would have been very very different you see when we begin to look at all
of these things together we see the importance of little things in
Scripture and I'm laying the foundation I hope already your mind and
your heart is open to us this is the Word of God this is the teaching of
the Holy Spirit many years ago you know my past my education and you
know my education didn't stand up for much my primary school days were
awful from p3 through to p7 and all the rest it was awful working up
through those years it was awful I learned very little my teacher said
sat sit there and don't you bother I don't know why she said that but
there's one thing one of my teachers taught and it impacted me and I
never forgot it in fact it was about a little thing it intrigued me it
fascinated me and in fact it was this thought that really inspired this
message because as a child of seven eight nine and ten this thought so
fundamentally impacted me that I've never been free of it and from a
child I've realized little things are very important to watch over and
if you don't pay attention to the little things all the big things of
life will come to wreck and ruin you say well what was this your teacher
taught you at school that was so important it was a little rhyme and it
went like this for the want or the loss of a nail I meant to have a nail
here tonight an old rusty nail I forgot for the loss of a nail a shoe
was lost for the loss of a shoe a horse was lost for the loss of a horse
the rider was lost for the loss of a rider the battle was lost he was so
important not one rider on the horse for the loss of a battle the war
was lost and for the loss of a war a kingdom was lost all for the loss
of one nail when my teacher taught us that it had a profound effect on
me and I know it's carnal and worldly and it's secular but oh what
wisdom you see I believe in that little story the loss of a nail that
leads to a loss of an entire kingdom it isn't silly it's not foolish in
fact if you dare think that a loss of a nail isn't important the right
nail in the right place to do the right job if you do not think that's
worth watching over then you don't know what the Bible teaches do you
remember those other children's rhymes a stitch in time saves nine I was
raised with this sort of thing I don't know what you get taught these
days in school but a stitch in time saves nine you can either do one
stitch now and I'll save an awful lot of work but if you neglect and say
it doesn't matter just leave it I'll do it later I'll do it next month
you can end up instead of doing one stitch in your sock you could do
nine stitches now I know they've had to invent new sayings in our
generation they've thrown out all of this sort of logic in our school
and I'd hate to hear what kids get taught now or what about the little
statement big things come out of small things are very good things in
other words when a child at Christmas gets a little box don't get
disappointed very good things can come out of very small boxes and so my
message is little things of Scripture and I want to give you four points
here and I'm just laying the foundation and we're gonna go deeper in the
weeks ahead when this my first point going to the Scripture where we
open from Proverbs 30 my first point the wisdom of small things the
wisdom of small things Proverbs 30 24 was it say here there be four
things which are little upon the earth the writer of the psalm and the
Holy Spirit who breathed on him and inspired him to write this was
writing something very profound you see God wants us to look at four
little things upon the earth they are little the words emphasize there
and you know what that little means it means they are weak they are
small they are insignificant you could actually mess a lot because
they're little with little things we've got a prone to say it's not
important there's nothing profound there it cannot make a big difference
but God doesn't say that God created all these animals God gave us all
these examples God gave us the Scripture that says there be four things
which are little upon the earth and so we hear here see the wisdom of
small things because he says but now they are little but they are
exceeding wise so these four animals he's gonna mention he says they are
little they are little exactly what we're saying here and this is a
theme throughout the Bible why did God make these animals little you see
God molded these animals to think in a particular way act in a
particular way to be a certain way and he made them little he didn't
make them like the elephant he made them little upon the earth but built
within these four things they are exceeding wise in other words they are
very wise they are great in wisdom so God has taken these four little
creatures and he has hidden his divine wisdom in them and it's a message
for you it is a lesson for you in this church it's a lesson for everyone
who listens that within very little insignificant you see we have all
across the church oh I'm nothing I can't do anything I can't speak I
can't think I can't preach I can't evangelize I can't pray I can't
believe I can't serve God and you paralyze yourself you realize the only
thing that's hindering you is yourself your faith your attitude your
obedience and you can begin to think oh but I'm only a little thing or
this is a little church or my faith is little you are going to decide
whether that restricts you or not and so we have four creatures they are
little and yet they're exceeding wise let's look at these four animals
for a moment verse 25 the answer of people not strong so notice here the
thing their littleness is expressed by lack of strength they do not have
strength and yet they prepare their meat in the summer there's our first
lesson here the wisdom of small things and God gives us the ant as an
example I hope you consider the ant I hope you study the ant I hope you
look at it when you're there and you begin to see the ant and go do you
know the Holy Spirit uses the ant as a lesson to Christians in the
church that's how important the ant is you see God created the ant very
small not much strength do you ever see an ant pick something up and
carry it do you ever see how small and feeble an ant is and yet it's a
remarkable animal God says it is exceeding wise that little ant God gave
it wisdom in an absolute extraordinary way now look how its wisdom is
expressed they prepared their meat for the summer this is what God is
saying you want to know the importance of little things you can be
little and prepare for the winter you could be very little with very
little strength like the ant you go I do not have strength I do not a
power I do not have reputation nobody hardly takes note of me and yet if
you have the wisdom of God you can actually express an exceeding wisdom
of God in your life you could be utterly unnoticed in the body of Christ
I mean worldwide and yet you could be exceedingly overwhelmingly filled
with the wisdom of God and that's what this ant was what did it look
like he prepared his meat in the summer for the winter now listen about
ants they hibernate for winter they don't like the cold they're like
some of us and they have to endure and survive extremely cold
temperatures they're gonna face snow and ice and hail and cold winds
blowing that would kill them do you understand that they are so little
and have such little strength they do not have the ability to fight all
of these things they cannot handle the torrents of rain they cannot
handle the heaviness of snow and the coldness of snow this little ant
cannot endure these things it would never survive these things and you
know what you're the same there's certain things in life you could not
endure through there's certain things that when you look forward and
especially in this hour people are looking into 2022 and they're going
how am I gonna go through this dark winter how am I gonna face the
trials ahead how am I gonna go through losing my job or suffering or
facing things do you know how it is to have the wisdom of God a wisdom
that overflows you do you know there's a wisdom that is greater than
that little ant that little ant could not have created this wisdom you
see that little ant that comes and begins to prepare and think and make
ready for the winter do you realize that little ant didn't begin doing
that itself it didn't decide to do that you see all that principle of
wisdom that says I've got to prepare for the winter I've got to make
ready and has the wisdom the know-how the ability the fact of having
that it's been going on for generations generations of ants have had
this wisdom to do it and they grew up thinking I thought of this maybe
and yet it is the wisdom of God placed within them was the wisdom of God
look like it prepares for winter you see they hibernate during winter
they won't survive it they can't endure it they can't walk through it so
what do they do they hibernate they prepare during the summer months
from springtime all the way through to autumn they are making ready
they're preparing all through the good days they're preparing for the
bad days it is in the light they're preparing for the darkness it is
when there is plenty they are making ready for a day when there's very
little you see a lot of Christians are going to get caught out they've
never prepared or stored up the spiritual they do not have the wisdom of
God they're not looking ahead saying I've got to prepare for dark hours
how am I going to stand when I'm tested or tempted or tried or
threatened will you prepare now spiritually you prepare you see what
does that do they collect food ahead of time they store extra food up in
their stomachs and within the queen ant of the whole nest they prepare
their entire colony for winter they know winter's coming they know the
dark hour is coming do you know what you do you prepare for it do you
see the wisdom of small things yes you're small yes you're small and
insignificant but you can have a wisdom that when the worst days the
coldest days the darkest days come you will actually because of the
wisdom of God you're not taken by surprise you're fully prepared you're
fully ready everything is fully stored up now you're just waiting do you
know what you do it's time to hibernate you see they work for the colony
not for individual plans and purposes they this process of preparation
takes time you're not going to do it in the next week some Christians
now are scrambling they grew up on a prosperity message they grew up on
a message that said God would never allow you to suffer God isn't God's
gonna keep everything just perfect for you long enough for you to get
out of this earth and it's all you're gonna tip toe through the tulips
without any battles and without any scars I'm gonna tell you that's a
very strange teaching the Bible says this little thing this and is
prepared for the darkest coldest and hardest times it is laboring and
preparing do you know also I heard this from a guy who looks after ants
he breeds them and Hannah would just love this in your garden or in your
back spare room all of these ants and and generate them and breed in
them and study in them what a new study the study of ants well this guy
who done that he actually said the churn the winter an ant produces if I
can say this right clear a soul antifreeze in its body it doesn't have a
churn this summer but it creates this antifreeze that it puts out into
its blood and circulates in its system this clear a cell he actually
said that they used to use it in cars and windows in olden days they
would extract this this substance and it's in the body of the ant so you
have this and the wisdom of God displayed in this little lamp and it
even secretes its bed and some of the hallways of its palace with the
same stuff because the winter is coming in only churn winter does it
have that or need that you see they have adapted themselves to survive
in any climate whether it's hot or cold or wet or whatever an ant is
gonna function whenever the cold winter comes and you go that must have
killed all the ants just you wait just you wait you're gonna find
springtime comes and here they all come they blocked the ways in and out
of their nests they blocked it all up they gather together to keep warm
and you know what they come out that's why I say the Bible talks about
the wisdom of small things secondly and brother soup once preached on
this is the colonies that's the second thing in verse 26 look what it
says with me here for a moment it says the colonies are but a feeble
folk they make their houses in the rocks what a statement it's the same
thing being shown a colony is a little thing but exceeding wise know
what is this colony that the Bible speaks about we see with the ants
their wisdom is displayed in preparation for the winter but the colony
reveals its little but it displays exceeding wisdom hard by finding a
secure place in the rock the word colony or the name colony means to
conceal hidden away from the eye of man as a valuable thing in other
words the colony chooses a position to bring security it chooses the
rock it's a little thing in fact it's very small a bit like the size of
a rabbit but more like a guinea pig it is very cuddly if you see the
pictures of it it is something you would want to embrace no claws
nothing dangerous about it no way to defend itself no way to fight its
enemies none of these things nothing of it is built in but it does have
wisdom God has given that little cuddly guinea pig this colony it is
built within it wisdom to secure it from its many enemies when brother
Suf preached on this he very kindly gave me this information and that
message about this cuddly guinea pig called a colony about all of its
enemies when you go to Africa you read it's got a great many enemies
leopards, puff adders, cobras, pythons, wild dogs, hawks, owls, eagles
to mention a few these are all the enemies of this little cuddly teddy
bear of a colony this innocent defenseless hopeless little creature
could never survive in the terrain that God has placed it and yet you
know what the Bible says it is exceeding great and wisdom this little
creature has so much wisdom in the midst of all of its enemies you know
what it does it goes and makes its home in the rocks it actually hides
in the rocks and as it hides in the rocks it is defended from all its
enemies it cannot defend itself it has got no claws it has got no skill
to run but you know what it does have wisdom is to say the rock is a
place of refuge I can hide in the rock from all of my enemies Psalm 104
says the high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rocks for
the Coney's the Coney's are a feeble folk who look at the Coney's
they're so feeble they'll never survive they'll never manage but you
know what the Bible actually says it says they make their houses in the
rocks where have you made your house are you hidden do you have you
found a rock to hide in the storm is coming the storm is here the storm
is heading our nations where have you made your refuge third of all
verse 27 we read about the locusts verse 27 the locusts have no King yet
they go forth all of them by bands the locusts we know do not have a
supreme leader over them and yet as you look at the locusts you see an
order you see a structure you see a unity you look at formations bands
of them and in fact they gather together in great numbers they are such
a small insignificant creature they have no leader to command them do
you see the wisdom that is displayed here the wisdom of small things if
you study that you're gonna become very prepared for the days ahead if
you study the Coney you're actually gonna know how to hide yourself no
matter how great the enemies you'll go there's one place of refuge in
the rock if it's like the locusts you study them you're gonna see though
a little a very small insignificant thing with no one to stand over them
and watch and make sure they're operating yet there is a great unity and
order in the locusts what an amazing animal they are they go forth all
of them by bands Church of God we need bands in the Church of God I mean
all over this world like the locusts they're small they're insignificant
there is nothing but if you have the wisdom of God bands of Christians
are gonna formulate all across this world you know what's happening
right now with the darkness of night and the troubles and the problems
are coming in all over the world new groups of Christians are
formulating everywhere they're banding themselves together they don't
even know what to call themselves they're not even sure if they're a
church yet they don't even have a pastor or a preacher but you know all
over the world Christians are saying we need to band together it's a
dark hour it's an evil to know what that shows exceeding wisdom there's
a lovely message from her brother I think in Canada and he says as soon
as all the churches locked on at the beginning of this Christ all of
them just shut down and you couldn't find a church to go to he said 12
of us began to meet together we banded together they may not call
themselves anything but you know what they joined together as the body
of Christ and he said we have had the most powerful wonderful times do
you know what that is that's little things being exceedingly wise and
forth do you know what I told Candice I said I've got three messages but
I'm leaving one to next week I said then those two I've gotta decide I'm
wrestling here just an hour before coming out I went oh no I've got not
not one message here I just well I you know I I'm just looking for the
wisdom of God need that wisdom of God to come to us but the fourth thing
here and let me deal with this the fourth thing is the spider in verse
28 it says the spider taketh hold with her hands and is in Kings palaces
she is in Kings palaces so look at the fourth and last thing small
things yet wise the wisdom of small things do you realize God the Holy
Spirit has built this in that no small group of Christians can say we're
too little we cannot affect a nation do you know what if you don't learn
the lesson of that nail the loss of a nail could bring about the loss of
a kingdom but also it happens in reverse to watch over a nail to repair
a nail to keep a shoe on you could save a kingdom do you realize that
your life your child your relationship this church the knock on a
consequence you deciding something you initiate in something you start
in something to realize the knock-on effect the worldwide effect of
little things you see if we're a church that emphasizes the small I want
to watch over the little I even if it's a little faith I want to nurture
it and guard it and protect it I don't want to use it some people say I
want great faith sure you don't use the little faith you have you will
never have great faith because you actually despise a little faith you
don't use it you neglect it you watch over it's in when is God gonna
give me good faith great faith great faith large faith mighty faith
miracle working faith when you begin to use your little puny bit of
faith that God has given you I watch people all through the years do
this remember the parable Jesus told and the one with one talent it
wasn't the one with ten it wasn't the one with five but the one with one
talent he said well master I knew how hard you are I knew that you're a
hard task master and I only have one they had five and they had ten I
only had one and I was very scared of losing it so I headed in the
ground and I waited for you to come back remember what he called him an
evil servant he said so you took what I gave you and you hit it and did
nothing with it if you do nothing with your faith then I'll be taken
away from you even not what you have you remember all the principles and
I'm trying to lay a principle in in the series very important series
this belongs in those doctrinal teachings that say if you want to be the
greatest you must become the least if you want to be the first then
you'll be the last if you're the last you'll be the first if you want to
be the big man you're gonna find yourself right at the bottom of the
rung those who go to the bottom rung go to the lowest place and serve
all and wash the feet of all they're suddenly gonna find promotion
cometh from the Lord you see all these principles are dynamic and yet
most of the church don't teach them preachers don't teach them they want
to teach people how to walk on water and I've never met a man in my life
who did not one I believe in miracles I believe it can happen but I've
never met all the sermons about having faith to walk in water and I've
never met other one other man to counterfeit or should I say to copy it
but you know what all these principles are being the least be in the
last and the little things get ignored terribly this fourth and last
thing the spider what does the spider do the spider is marked by
preparation and it's wisdom the spider taketh hold with her hands she
begins to spin to work to make webs to make homes it's a mess in this
what does it do what does the spider do it's so little insignificant
look at it it's building its home with its hands when you see someone at
the side of the road and they're building their house from scratch you
know this is a little person it's not an important person it's not a
rich person it's not a person of great reputation and limerick when
they're literally starting to nip together and build their home you'd
say this is a very small very insignificant someone of no reputation of
no resources be very careful with the spider you know as you look at the
spider do you know what you see you see one who can penetrate right into
the palaces of Kings that's what the Holy Spirit says here says and he
is in Kings palaces this insignificant creature that starts to build its
house with its own hands out of nothing begins one line one line one
line do you know how they built a way across Niagara Falls do you know
the story of it little things there was a young boy a boy with a kite
and he flew it and the rope went out further and further and further and
that little line managed to get right across Niagara Falls do you know
what they started doing was going back and forth and then he attached a
bit of wire and then something thicker and this went on and on and on
like the spider have you ever seen the determination of a spider just
one line you go up into your office you haven't been there for an hour
and you go I just touched something there it is one line do you know how
determined that that spider is it is a little insignificant thing that
has to build from start from nothing and yet it is exceedingly full of
wisdom unbelievable remarkable wisdom it's a remarkable wisdom that it
has it goes straight into the Palace of Kings there's not a King's
Palace that doesn't have a spider in it there's there's not a greatest
house in Limerick where there aren't spiders building their homes they
must say look at my house you know the poor guy spent all his fortune
and the spider said this is my home this is where I built I chose this
palace I chose this Parliament building I chose the great houses of the
earth there's no Hollywood star that doesn't have spiders who penetrated
that go right into the midst of it do you realize if you understand what
I'm saying you may not have a penny to your name you may not have any
reputation you may not think that you have got great faith but if you
actually walk and little things you there's nowhere on the face of the
planet you say I could go into closed countries I could travel if all
the airlines shut down I actually have the wisdom of God in me to know
what to do and how to do it and when to do it I've got all of these
things I've got the wisdom of God in me to know what to do whether it's
like the ant or the colony or the locust or the spider you know that
spider has such wisdom saying no prison bars you know do you know
spiders break into prisons I don't know whether you ever knew that
they've got such wisdom that they'll say we'll build a home inside a
prison you bunch are trying to escape you bunch want to get out I'm
getting in out for shelter I'm choosing your corridors and all you guys
you prisoners you're gonna have to clean all the cobwebs we're building
our home everywhere we're invading your home we're taking over we're
choosing if you don't clean up I assure you they'll take over those
spiders things that God I'm just beginning to show you the greatness of
little things small things insignificant things let me finish here with
just some truth pulled out of Scripture lessons about little things in
Scripture as we close here I'm laying a foundation and next week I'm
gonna get very specific it says in Psalm 37 verse 16 a little that a
righteous man has a little if you're righteous and you have very little
maybe there's people watching and I know there is and they've lost their
job their convictions their biblical beliefs and Bible prophecy they're
an awareness that something is wrong and they've lost business and they
could lose home and they've lost job and their family think they're
crazy do you know it says a little that a righteous man has you've got
to learn this because if you don't learn this you can be manipulated
you'll actually say I've got to hold on to certain things and you could
be deceived a little are you satisfied with a little are you dream and
thinking and there's nothing wrong to expand or to improve or to better
yourself or to get a better job or better pay there's nothing wrong with
those things but listen to what the Bible says Psalm 37 16 a little that
a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked do you
realize in this art there are wicked men evil men bad men and they are
very rich they are exceeding rich and yet the Bible says it's better to
have a little very little enough to feed yourself for a day enough to
pay your rent for another week just enough to get your family through it
is better to be righteous wasn't mean to be righteous upright in the
Word of God to walk straightly to walk direct to be right with God it's
better to be like that then have all the riches of the wicked for the
and is the reason for the arms of the wicked shall be broken but the
Lord uphold us the righteous you can have little to realize God can be
holding you up that's what the Bible teaches God himself is upholding
you and you know what the Hebrew means it means to lift you and they
carry you forward to your destination the Bible says that a righteous
man with a little is being upheld by the Lord are you righteous do you
have little then I want to tell you behind the scenes you go how did I
make it through how did I go through all these things I'll tell you why
I'll tell you how I'll tell you who thank God it is that the Lord is
upholding the righteous and he carries them through all the trials if
you understand this principle of little things also in Proverbs 15 16 it
says better is little I like that word better it said better in Psalm 37
better than riches do you believe it better than riches having little is
better than riches non Proverbs 15 better is little with the fear of the
Lord then great treasure and trouble therewith you could have everything
and great trouble great trouble one of my favorite scriptures years ago
I lived in Scotland in the corner of a building a little narrow room
only had one cupboard a few boxes had very little could put everything
in one bag and I lived in the corner of building and when I got to
Proverbs and it says it's better to live in the corner of a large house
right in the corner of it then in a broad room with a brawling woman
says something like that and I said amen I was a single guy and I said
I'd rather live in that little small room with these few possessions
than to be in a broad room and now I thank God I'm not with a brawling
woman I'm with what the Scottish would call a braw woman the Bible does
say better is little with the fear of the Lord make sure you have the
fear of the Lord I don't care how little you have but I do care do you
fear God do you fear God Isaiah 28 verse 9 it says home and there's God
speaking whom shall he teach knowledge to do you want to know how God
teaches who God teaches and to whom shall he make to understand doctrine
teach him knowledge understand doctrine this is who them that are weaned
from the milk get in early Hannah get in early those that are weaned do
you realize someone weaned from their mother's milk a godly mother this
little baby being weaned all of this weaning not every woman weans do
they but this Bible says wean a baby that's weaned from the milk and
drawn from the breast not every Christian woman can confess this because
they don't do it but here you have the Bible speaking about this this
little baby so how is it this little baby becomes filled with the
knowledge of God and gets filled with understanding doctrine to realize
I understood doctrine from a little child how does it happen and there's
a scripture I'm gonna close in this I've got 15 messages here but we're
gonna close now listen very carefully this is how you train up a little
child filled with the knowledge of God how are you gonna do it is it a
hard task is it impossible for a mother to do of course not listen this
God's pattern and if you don't know it and don't learn it you'd miss it
you'd think you can't do this it says Isaiah 28 verse 10 for precept
must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line
and this is where I want to bring you and finish here a little and there
a little do you realize what God has just said here he says whom shall
he or I teach knowledge and train up understanding biblical doctrine a
little child weaned at its mother's womb will you just say a little line
here a little precept I believe in the church of our day precepts have
been lost we want the dynamic we want the big we want to know how to do
it you haven't laid in precepts you haven't laid in lines you haven't
done a little here and a little there and it's causing wreck right
across the body of Christ can I encourage you tonight and I commit this
message into your hands and will you remember what my teacher at primary
school taught about for the loss of a nail an entire kingdom was lost we
are going to look at some wonderful things out of the scripture little
things insignificant so easily missed but if you miss them you will
regret it not only for time but for all eternity there's little things
if you put in place God will bless you tremendously in the years ahead
and no church will ever be blessed that neglects the precepts the lines
the little things here and there I am fanatical I am radical I've always
been from a child at primary school I've been from my mother's womb
radical over little things paying attention to detail and obeying the
little commands of scripture let's pray father we do thank you for the
Word of God tonight just your wisdom displayed in these four little
creatures Lord God that are remarkable creatures that you have created
to teach us to give us wisdom to stir us father I do pray that beginning
tonight that you're gonna open our eyes to the little things the small
things the insignificant things that we'll no longer use lack of faith
smallness of faith smallness of ability as an excuse not to do the will
of God but father by faith in your word we would say that we can raise
up a great army even through these messages online through a little
precept here and there a line here and a line there here a little thing
and there a little thing Lord God that we can have an impact for the
kingdom of God because this is your word will you bless your word
tonight and bless and minister to every single individual we love you
and we bless you tonight in Jesus name

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