A Biblical Backbone | Frank Castrejon

Wow, God, it's so good. Yeah.

Amen, come on, let's stand up pretty please, and let's

pray for the word. I'm Frank. If you haven't met me,

it's a pleasure to meet you. I hope I get

to know you.

Father.

We just thank you for your word. We just welcome

in your goodness today. Lord Father, I pray that this word,

as your word says, is a seed that is growing

today in good soil. Father, I pray that these hearts

are prepared to take in your word today. Help us

to receive the truth God, as you give it. We

just welcome it now. Let it be a light to

our path and a lamp unto our feet today in

Jesus' name.

And everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen.

The title of this sermon, as the Lord gave it

to me, is a biblical backbone, and I think it's

a timely word. I got this before, maybe I found

out that I was going to be up here today,

maybe about a month and a half ago.

And after he gave it to me, I.

Pondered, and I pondered, and I pondered, and I said, God,

is this the word that you want to share with

your people today?

And he said nothing, So I fought, and I fought

for it.

I contended, and I prayed into it, and I did

the things I know to do normally, and nothing for weeks.

And I said, maybe it's not the Lord. Maybe maybe

maybe that was just me. Maybe maybe I.

Just thought about it and I thought that would be amazing.

And and no, last week confirmed what I'm talking about

today because what I had been, what had been transpiring

in my time with the Lord, as I was reading

and studying this word out, it's almost like he's leading me, right,

He's like he's just like he's leading me. He's like

he fed me something. He's like, now, go do something

with it. Right, And so then he began to speak

to me, and then he confirmed it last week with

the words shared about the church is the pillar of

the ground of truth, right, and Timothy and so Vischal

did amazing And this just kind of led into this

and I said, Okay, God, I know it's you now,

Now that I know again that it's you helped me

to fill these pages up. You know, so with much

travail and with a lot of fighting and warrying in

the spirit, this word came. That's what I'm telling you.

So I'm praying that we get this today because I

feel like this is an impartation that the church needs

for now, and I believe that it came at a

timely moment in our lives because of all the things

that are going around in our nation. And I look

around and I'm witnessing the things that are happening, the

transformations that are happening in the room, the prophetic word

that's being released. And I'm going to take you to

Isaiah sixty six, verse two. So I feel like we

did something today, and I feel like God is doing something.

It says, for all these things my hand has made,

and all those things exist, says the Lord. But on

this one I will look on him who is poor

and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word?

Have you trembled at his word recently? And I believe

that the Lord is doing something amazing, that he's transforming

our nation, and he's starting from what we would perceive

as the top down. But may I submit this to you.

I think that he's starting from the top down. But

what he's saying is I'm starting in my house, from

my house down. Let's go to first Timothy, verse four,

Chapter four verse thirteen. Please, and I want us to

read this together, says till I come. This is Paul

to Timothy, right from one generation to the next. Till

I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which

was given to you by prophecy with the laying on

of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things.

Give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be

evident to all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine.

Continue in them, For in doing this you will say

both yourself and those who hear you.

It's interesting that he chooses those words.

That you would save yourself through giving yourself entirely to these,

to the doctrine, the real doctrine, right, the real Gospel

of Jesus. You give yourself entirely to that and to

those things that have been given to you. To tend

to the stirring up of the gifts that are within

you that you have probably many of you have had

your somebody else lay hands on you, right being passed

down from generation to generation to generation. In other words,

what he's saying is the Gospel that I shared with you,

And he goes on to tell him later he says,

if anyone brings you another gospel right that didn't come

from me, even if he is an angel of light,

he is a curse.

He passes down from generation to generation.

Now we have that same gospel today twenty twenty four

from the same apostles who have put this thing together.

And then after that the Church put it together. And

then after that, you know, it became a compendium. But

literally every one of these is one letter that is

penned or one book that is penned by the Holy

Spirit Joshua, Chapter one, verse seven. Only be strong and

be very courageous that you may observe to do according

to the law which Moses, my servant, commanded you. To

not turn from it to the right hand or to

the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. This

book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth.

But you shall meditate. Say meditate in it day and night.

I'll tell you right now, the word meditate actually means

to mutter. That means to repeat something under your breath repeatedly.

That means that the Word of God should be continually,

day and night on our lips. It says that it

should not depart from us right, that you may observe

to do according to all that is written in it,

that you will make your way prosperous, and then you

will have good success.

Say success. Have I not commanded you?

Be strong and of good courage to not be afraid

nor be dismayed. For the Lord your God, it's with

you wherever you go, see, he says he. Ever, whenever

he says, have I not commanded you, that means that

it's written somewhere. Have I not commanded you? That means

that he already spoke it to you. These are the

things that we are to keep in remembrance always before us.

Right.

It says that we should bind them on our hands,

and bind them on our heads, and teach them to

our children, even to the next generations.

Amen, Okay, let's go to.

Let's go to Deuteronomy one thirty nine. I want to

give you, guys, like the whole meat of this right now,

because you know what, I pray that the Lord would

slow the time down.

In Jesus name.

All right, moreover, you little ones and your little ones

and your children who you say will be victims who

today have no knowledge of good and evil.

They shall go in there to them, I will give

it and they shall possess it.

Last time I was up here, we talked about the

children of Israel and the spies who gave a bad report.

It caused the children of Israel to sin. All except

for Joshua and Caleb. Caleb and Joshua were the only

ones who would live long enough. From that generation, anyone

who was twenty years or older would die within forty years.

It would be horrible to be the guy who just

turned twenty that day. Yeah, these guys are like, Lord,

they're like eighty years old.

They're gonna live to be one twenty.

And I'm like, I just turned twenty today, Come on,

come on, that that would be man.

I don't know.

I have to ask him if that's the guy, and

when I see him later, hopefully he's in heaven.

I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know that one yet.

So, you know, it's just.

It's interesting to me that he says, you know, your

little ones who you said would be victims, they will

be the ones who go in to be victors.

That's the word of God.

He has declared it, He wrote it, he said it right.

Here's the issue with that.

If you're a parent, or if you are an adult

who knows the little ones, you're an uncle, you're a aunt. Right,

it would be horrible to be told that because you

were a coward and you would not fight in this

day for this generation, that now your children have to

fight a fight that you should have fought.

Yeah, you need a backbone.

We need a biblical backbone for this age. I believe this.

This is what God is doing in our time right now.

He's actually giving us the knowledge that I'm sharing. I

think that he wanted to give us is that you know, well, Bethan,

he did so good on that thing.

Isn't she doing so good? Look at that thing? Yeah, Bethan,

he's so awesome.

Look at that a gladiator entering her an arena with

the sword of the spirit. Yeah, every need will bow

and every time will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

And I think this is what He's releasing to us today.

He wants to give us an impartation of the renewal

and like a revival of his church, coming back to

what he has already told them to do. You're feeling

discouragement today, find out what he said.

You're feeling weak.

He is strong, and it actually tells you that his

word makes you strong. Let's go to Psalm one nineteen,

verse twenty five to twenty eight. Real quick, my soul

clings to the dust. Revived me according to your word?

Could this be a key to revival? I would submit

to you that, yes it is. I. I have declared

my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

Statutes make me understand the way of your precepts. That's

all in here. So I shall meditate on your wonderful works.

My soul melts from heaviness. Are you feeling heavy? Strengthen

me according to your word, Remove me from the way

of lying, and grant me your law. Graciously my soul

go to then? What is the next one?

Buddy? There you go.

I have chosen the way of truth. Your judgments have

laid before me. I cling to your testimonies, truth testimonies.

O Lord, do not put me to shame.

I will run the course of your commandments, for you

shall enlarge my heart.

You feel in small, You feel like you can't do it.

You feel like you don't have the capacity for more.

You want to enlarge, You want to enlarge the heart.

Open this thing up, see what fruit it will produce.

It says, in the Word, and Jesus said it, Who,

by the way, is the word?

Right?

In John chapter one, it says that that in the

beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God.

All things were made through him, and without him nothing

was made that was made. Verse fourteen of John chapter one,

it says, and the world became flesh and dwelt among us,

and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the

only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

He is the Word of God.

In Psalm one nineteen one sixty, it says that the

entirety of your word is truth, and every one of

your righteous judgments endures for what forever. That's that's beyond Joshua,

that's beyond the children of Israel, that's beyond the New

Testament Church, that's beyond us.

It is forever. Right.

In Psalm one thirty eight two, God says, I will

worship towards your holy temple and praise your name for

your loving kindness and your truth, for you have magnified

your word above all your name. If God makes covenance

with man like he did with Abraham, that he established forever.

And he says, because I could swear by no higher

name than my own name. And yet he says that

he actually magnifies his word above all his name.

Then this is life and death to the Christian Amen.

And the reason why I'm bringing all of this up

is because you know, in the time of the Apostles,

they were fighting something called narcissism. I don't have time

to get into all of that, because this is not

what this is about. But narcissism, if you look it up,

it is something that was a perverse way of looking

at and perverse means to twist the truth. Okay, just

so you know, perverse way of looking at the Gospel

of Jesus Christ, Okay. And so what we're not gonna

do is go into that that much. Right now, I

want to talk about this thing called syncretism that we're

fighting in our in our generation. Syncretism is in religion.

It involves merging different traditions and unified systems of beliefs.

That means, I will take part of the Bible.

I will adopt it as my own, and then I

will leave out some of it because that doesn't that's

not something I jive with.

You know.

I'm all good, I'm all good.

We're moving into somebody's house and uh, and and not

and not marrying them yet because I got to know

if they're the one. But I love Jesus, or how

about this one. I love Jesus, but I cuss a little.

Say Lord, guard my heart. I'm not gonna get mad

at Frank. But uh, you know, it's just this this thing, right,

this thing where there's Christians who don't believe that there's

a devil out there trying to kill him. Mister Devin,

can you please put up the slide about what a

world biblical view is? You guys can take pictures. Go ahead,

describe a photo real QUI becau. I'm gonna go through

them quickly, okay. George Barna he's a founder, it says here.

According to George barna Is, a founder of the Barner

Group who specializes in Christian cultural research, this is a

biblical worldview. In short definition, absolute moral truth exists. It's

the first one that the Bible is totally accurate and

all of the principles.

It teaches.

That Satan is a real being or force number four,

that a person cannot earn their way into heaven by

trying to be good or do good works number five,

that Jesus Christ lived a sendless life number six, and

that God is the all knowing, all powerful creator of

the world who still rules the universe today.

That's a biblical worldview.

Say Lord, I want that, and I believe that in

our church we follow that as closely as possible. I

will never tell you that you'll get into heaven by

just doing good. It's not a thing. If they were

a good person, you tell that good person that they

better accept Jesus or they're not going to go to

a good place. It's the truth. See, that is a worldview.

That is a worldview that we need to have. Let's

do this by the numbers. I'm gonna let's do some

more sobering statistics. Guys, ready for this. This is gonna

shock you. Take a photo, all right. Sixty seven percent

of Americans identify themselves as Christians, yet only six percent

hold a biblical worldview. Two percent of Christian parents hold

a biblical worldview. Twelve percent of youth pastors hold a

biblical world view. According to BARNA, thirty seven percent of

pastors in the US as a total hold a biblical worldview,

fifty one percent of senior pastors, fifty one percent of

charismatic pastors, fifty six percent of pastors under forty, which

actually tells you something because I feel like the older

that they get in Christianity sometimes and not knocking people.

But discouragement is a real thing. Getting beat up by

the devil is a real thing. But if they don't

believe that they're getting beat up by the devil or

discouraged because there's a disease that they haven't actually tried

to go in and pray for it to get healing

for and the breakthrough doesn't come, but they get discouraged,

so it throws them off. Guess what, They no longer

have a biblical worldview. We need strong leaders. The pulpits

have to get a biblical backbone again. Fifty eight percent

of pastors with less than five years in ministry hold

a biblical worldview. The West Coast is the highest has

the highest biblical worldview rating in the US at fifty

eight percent. That means that from our pulpits, our pulpits

in the West Coast are doing good.

So what's the problem. Why is it so.

Anti life over here on this side. Why are we

voting using our sovereignty.

To allow.

Doctrines of demon to infiltrate our government. Why are we

okay with telling people that sexual perversion is okay. Why

is it that parents who are Christian in this side

of the world two percent hold a biblical worldview that

is disturbing because ministry is supposed to start at home.

Bind them on your hands, and bind them on your head,

and teach them to your children.

Amen, men, say help us Lord.

Let's go to Joshua chapter nine.

And I want you to keep this in mind, keep

this in remembrance.

What we read about Joshua chapter one, verse eight, Okay,

where he says to meditate on my word, right he says,

he says.

Do this and then you'll have good success. Right nine.

But I wanna, I think I want to skip.

Over to versus versus eight. I'm gonna give you some context.

So there's these guys that hear about Joshua and what

he did to Jericho and Ai after they go into

the promised land. They had gotten their preparation, and God

prepared them by what telling them to meditate on his word,

because then they would be victorious.

Then they would have good success.

Right, Okay, So they come in and they say, and

these men dress up, They get beat up clothes, They

put on some dusty clothes, they put on some moldy food,

They got all their stuff. They put on some old sandals, right,

and they trick. They're essentially tricking them, right. So verse

eight it says, but they said to but they said

to Joshua, oh, then, okay, verse seven, let's start there.

Then the mint of you, he's real, said to the hibbites,

perhaps you dwell among us, so how can we make

a covenant with you? But they said to Joshua, we

are your servants. And Joshua said to them, who are

you and where do you come from? So they said

to him from a very far country. Your servants have

come because of the name of the Lord, your god,

for we have heard of his fame and all that

he did in Egypt.

See, they're pumping them up right now.

They're pumping up Joshua, and they're pumping up the elders

and all that he did to the two kings of

the Amorites, who are beyond the Jordan, and to t Saihan,

king of Heshbon, and all king of Bashan, who was

at astroth. Therefore, our elders and the inhabitants of our

country spoke to us, saying, take provisions with you for

the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them,

we are your servants. Now therefore make a covenant with us.

This bread of ours we took hot for our provision

from our houses the day we departed to come to you.

But now look it is dry and moldy.

And these wine skins which were filled, now see they

are torn, and these are our garments. And our sandals

have become old because of the very long journey. Then

the men of Israel took some of the provisions, but

they did not ask for counsel of the Lord. So

Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with

them to let them live, and the rulers of the

congregation swore to them Verse fourteen. Then the men of

Israel took some of their provisions, right took their stuff,

but they did not ask counsel of the Lord. When

I was reading this, God hit me with something he said.

After Moses's death, the first issue that the next leader had,

which was Joshua, was a result, as we would know

it now, a separation of church and state. Where was

the high priest? Where was the priesthood in that exchange?

Who was there to tell them? Should we not inquire

of God? Hey, before you make a really bad decision

and take a bribe or take money, or take something

that would be causing you to be in covenant with

somebody who God has already told us that we shouldn't.

Because if you look at Deuteronomy, let's see go to

Exodus twenty three. Let's just go that far back, because

that's already written right for Joshua. Exitdus twenty three thirty two.

You shall make no covenant with them nor their gods.

They shall not dwell in your land. Let's they make

you sin against me, for if you serve their godd

it will surely be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy seven to two. That's another one.

And when the Lord your God delivers them over to you,

you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. You shall

make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

Somebody wasn't meditating on the word of God. The eldership

and even Joshua was he fell prey and victim to

lies because had they been meditating on that. And I

think maybe as they tried, they say, well, why don't

we know you don't dwell among us? But God never

said that they should go into the land and cut

covenant with anyone.

You know. See, there's just a little bit of a slip.

If somebody comes to tell you something and you have

a question in your heart at all in any way,

whether it's right or wrong, then guess what that is

where you need to go and check with the Lord.

I think that the Lord released this word over us

now because we have something new happening in our country.

There's a new development, and there is going to be

a leader that is put in place that may okay,

that may have good counsel, that there's godly counsel surrounding

the person, that there's people who are there laying their

hands on them right, but they can't do it all

on their own.

I believe that in the spirit realm there.

Was a lot that was happening during that time, But

there's also a lot that is that.

I think we can take out of this right.

But I want us to go ahead and check this

thing out. Mister Devin, can you please put up the

next slide for us. Let's see the benefits of understanding scripture.

It brings us to dependence. Dependence in God. When we

come to understand the scriptures. When Jesus was there on

the road to ammais one of the first things he

did before he even baptizes them in the Holy Spirit,

which is later, He actually opens up their understanding the scripture,

say to the scriptures pertaining to himself, we need this,

We need understanding of his scripture. Faith comes by hearing

God's word. You can't even and attain faith without God's word.

Faith won't come at the thought of the blue.

It won't. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the.

Word of God. Believing God comes from his word. Rightly

dividing the Word begins. When you're understanding the Word, your

way will be prosperous. Deception of illegal covenants are averted.

It removes unnecessary and future battles, and abiding in the

Word is half of what is needed to.

Get an answer to prayer. Because he says, if you

abiding me, and I abiding you.

And if my word abides in you, then you will

pray and ask and you will have what you ask for.

But he said, if my word abides in you, that's good.

Yeah.

This I had a word this morning for those veterans.

Who's a veteran, the war is just beginning. You have

may be gotten involved in the military at some point

and thought, man, I'm a veteran.

Now I can quit.

But guess what, you have a fight on your hands

right now in the spirit. God is not done with you.

Who's a parent More than ever, God needs you to

step into your role as the generation who will fight

the giants.

Who will take on the enemy, who will.

Kick down doors in the spirit realm, who will go

to the gates of hell. Those gates of hell will

not prevail against this church.

It is our duty. It is it has.

Been granted to us to seize the moment. In a

time such as this, we can celebrate, right, we can

celebrate what would already happened, because I believe that the

prayers of the saints were answered to get the results

that we needed. I believe that there's a lot of

people that took it to the to the votes and

they voted the right way, and then guess what this

is the outcome. There's hope for America. But God is

releasing this word over us today, and I feel like

what we're doing with this word is we're actually fighting

against demons of complacency. We're fighting against against sleepiness, We're

fighting against you know, just just being good with.

The fact that we got it good. Now we can

sit down and rest.

No, no, yes, you fight. You fight for tomorrow, you

fight for the next generation. I don't want my children

fighting to fight that I should fight. I don't need

them to fight the stuff that I should have taken

care of. They need to be building up the next generation.

They need to be they need to be erecting more

pillars of truth.

I believe that there is a great.

Awakening happening, and it's already begun and we're starting to

see it flare up all over the United States. There

is the next great Awakening happening, and this.

Is a big part of it.

It will involve a biblical backbone. It will involve the

Church discipling the nations again and taking up the mantle

and the responsibility of being the priesthood in a time

where there's leaders that need guidance. Leaders in government will

need leaders of the congregation to speak up against what

is wrong and speak what is right in God's eyes,

not our own eyes, not syncretism, but the Bible. I'm

believing for a time where you know, if the Lord

grants it that I will still be alive and every

single school will go back to teaching the word. Come on,

help us, Lord, we need this. You have Joshua three five,

and Joshua said to the people, sanctify yourselves for tomorrow

the Lord will do wonders among you. And Timothy it

tells us that the word sanctifies everything. Sanctify yourselves. Get this,

get understanding, learn the Word of God, because this is

the way forward from now on. This is the way forward.

This will not lead you astray. You will not turn

to it from the left or to the right. You're

not gonna get roped into a battle that you never

needed to get involved with at that moment, or a

battle that is out of time. Because what happened is

after that, after they made that covenant, Joshua ended up

ended up having to fight five armies against one because

they needed to come and bail out their new friends.

Because it was an unlawful covenant.

See, we can get messed up and we can be misled.

If we're not leaning into listening to the voice of

the Lord in this coming future, we can end up

being allied with the wrong people and fighting unnecessary fights

that will deplete our energy.

Right, they're gonna suck.

Up all of our time fighting over here with the media.

They're gonna suck up all of our time fighting over

here about.

This and that.

No, if we stick to this and let this lead us,

then our time will be consumed with what is the

next step?

God? What is the next step? God? How when let's

redeem the time.

While it is today? Hallelujah. So let's read that verse again.

And Joshua said to the people, sanctify yourselves for tomorrow

the Lord will do wonders among you.

Hallelujah.

Come on, come on, there's a great awakening that is happening,

and I believe he's equipping us right now. Even now

I'm speaking to somebody who needs to hear this today.

Don't look at the person next to you, just say

I need to hear this today. Help me become a

maker of disciples. Lord, help me teach you to my children.

Help me fight. God, give me courage to fight the

battles that are before me in my generation. Hallelujah. Let's

stand up. Did this help? I want you to be

encouraged today. I'm gonna give you four to seven seconds

forty seven. Four to seven seconds forty seven.

Right.

We have something that's happening that's shifting the atmosphere in

our nation.

So I'm gonna give it to you.

Let's do four to seven seconds of thanking the Lord

that he answered our prayers, that he helped the right

people in place. And I want you to thank him

even for the next phase, these next four years of leadership, right,

this leadership change that's happening, because we have a lot.

Of work to do. So we're gonna be grateful for today.

Right, and we're gonna fight like tomorrow matters still, right,

and we're not gonna let up, and we're.

Not gonna back down. Yeah, all right, go ahead to

four to seven seconds.

Thank you Lord, hallelujah, Thank you Lord. There is a

newness that is coming to the United States. Hallelujah. Come on,

come on, come on, high five, somebody real quick.

Hey, come on, come on, come on.

Thank you for your prayers, thank you for fasting for

fair elections.

Thank you for doing all of that you have done. Great,

you have done marvelous things. You have seen Heaven.

Move right now, watch what the Lord is going to do.

Sanctify yourselves right, because the Lord is going to do

a great and mighty work for you tomorrow.

Come on.

We have a lot of work to do, Sights, We

have a lot of work to do in every area of.

Influence that you are going into. Lord will give you

thanks for your word. Jesus, you are the word in

the beginning, you were there. God.

Thank you for being made manifest to us. God, letting

us behold your glory.

Jesus, I thank you that you penned every single word

through your holy spirit. God.

Thank you God. We will not take it for granted

what needs to be done. Father, we will be courageous today,

tomorrow and always God, so long as we live. Let

there be a fight in your people.

God.

Let there be a fight that our children do not

need to fight until it is their turn to fight God.

And we're going to teach them God to be warriors

of Heaven. I thank you.

Lord, that you are strengthening right now all of the generations,

from the top down, from the bottom up, Lord God, to.

Be warriors for Heaven.

Lord Father, we partner with Heaven today and we say

that darkness is crumbling, that high places are.

Being brought low, that every need will bow.

And every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. There

is a great awakening that is taking place God, and

we thank you for it, Lord today in Jesus' mighty name.

And everybody said, Amen, Let's worship, Let's worship as we

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