Starke fact: THE battle IS ON! - pastorjax.blogspot.com

1 SAMUEL 17:22-29 Pastor Rick Jackson I. GET in the combat [1 Sam. 17] Too many Christians need to sit down on the sidelines when truly they are within the fight however devoid of the battle mentality. 1. Get your heart within the combat through Realizing the fight is the LORD's! [v. 23, 26, 29-37. Eph. 6:10-12] 2. Get your Head in the battle by means of Refusing Unproven combat gear [v. 38-39, 2 Corinthians 10:4] (For the weapons of our war don't seem to be carnal, but mighty through God to the flattening of sturdy holds;) 3. Get your arms in the combat by means of Reusing confirmed battle gear [v. 40-50, Eph. 5:10, 6:10ff] II. put together FOR THE combat [1 Sam. 17:51, 18:1-5, 13, 27a, 21:8-9] 1. examine [2 Timothy 2:15] examine to shew thyself accredited unto God, a workman that needeth no longer to be ashamed, rightly dividing the observe of truth. 2. stay energetic [Acts 24:14-16] however this I confess unto thee, that after the style which they name heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all issues which can be written within the legislation and within the prophets: And have hope toward God, which they themselves also permit, that there might be a resurrection of the lifeless, each of the just and unjust. And herein do I activity myself, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God, and toward men. three. Share (motivate others) [v. 52-53, 1 Tm. 4:6-16] III. dwell within the combat [2 Sam. 11:1] 1. don't stay (at popularity quo) [1 Cor. 3:1-2, 13:11] and i, brethren, couldn't speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, while unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye have been not capable of bear it, neither yet now are ye capable. When i was a child, I spake as a toddler, I understood as a child, i assumed as a child: but when I became a person, I put away infantile issues. 2. do not Revert [Gal. 1:6, 3:1-4, 4:9] I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from him that referred to as you into the grace of Christ unto one other gospel: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye may still not obey the actuality, earlier than whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified amongst you? This handiest would I learn of you, bought ye the Spirit by means of the works of the legislation, or by means of the listening to of faith? Are ye so silly? having begun within the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by using the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in useless? if it be yet in useless. but now, after that ye have standard God, or rather are commonplace of God, how flip ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye need again to be in bondage? three. do not Retreat [Psalm 78:9] The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, grew to become again in the day of combat. -Stand [Acts 7:39 To whom our fathers would now not obey, however thrust him from them, and of their hearts turned lower back once again into Egypt, 1 Corinthians 2:5 That your faith should still now not stand in the knowledge of men, however in the vigour of God. 1 Corinthians 15:1 additionally, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which additionally ye have obtained, and wherein ye stand; 1 Corinthians sixteen:13 Watch ye, stand quick within the religion, give up you love men, be robust. Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be no longer entangled once again with the yoke of bondage. Ephesians 6:11, 13 put on the entire armour of God, that ye may well be in a position to stand in opposition t the wiles of the satan... Wherefore take unto you the entire armour of God, that ye may well be in a position to stand up to in the evil day, and having finished all, to stand.