Sermons About Enemy
Speak to the mountain
Summary: Our words are what we use to attack the enemy. When we say what God says to our enemies, it’s like shooting bullets at them. When we talk the problem, it’s like throwing cookies at them. Our words are the bullet, our mouth is the gun, but love is the firing pin. We have got to get God’s word in our mouth and fire at the enemy that’s standing in our way. We have to speak to the mountain. Don’t ask God to do anything about it, stop crying about it. Stop talking about how big it is, stop telling everyone you meet that will listen to you how big it is, and speak to it. Command it to go!
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2 Samuel 10 - Dealing with Foreign Folly
2 Samuel 10 falls between some of the greatest Stories of David's life - his kindness shown to Mephibosheth (Jonathan's son) and David's adultery with Bathsheba. In chapter 10 the narrative is a highlight of battles with the Ammonites. David sends an envoy to the Ammonite King express condolences for the death of King Hanun's Father Nahash, whose army had been defeated by Saul in 1 Samuel 11. David must have had some reason for showing loyality (such as covenant made). King Hanun regests David's good will and tries to fight Israel but with no success. If fact Israel's commanders - brothers Joab and Abishai were much more humble in their strategy and saw the Ammonites flee before them. This passages shows our redemption in that we reject the gracious offer of God because we are actually enemies of God like the Ammonites. Winning the battle in ourlives is only found in accepting God's way of salvation. When we reject God's gracious offere we prove incapable of saving ourselves. All our own efforts to save ourselves are futule. Only in Chirst Jesus is there salvation for anyone. May we see that unlike the Ammonites we need to humble ourselves and trust in Jesus and his death for the payment for our sins. For Christians we need to be humble enought (like Joab) to say in our hearts "may the LORD do what seems good to Him" rather than asking God to do what we want all the time. This is the essence of saving faith that endures the difficult times in living.
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2 Samuel 9 - Covenant Kindness
It is easy to be two-faced in our socieity today. It is easy to forget (on purpose) promices that are made because our circumstances change and it is to our advantage to forget promices when we think there are no bad consequences. This is the position David was in, but David made sure that he fulfilled his coveant with Jonathan by showing kindness to Mephibosheth. Normally kings and leaders would eleminate any leaders or family of a former rival kingdom, and thus Mephibosheth had something to fear in coming into King David's presence. But David in the all important verse 7 shows a coveant kingdness that not only protects Mephibosheth's live but provides for him in land and food and gives a great position (eating at the kings table). today We understand from David's covenant with Jonathan that God's covenant with us provides benefits in we can have security in living, abundance in living, and dependence in living. We are totally dependent on the covenant Kindness of God in providing our security in salvation from sin. Since we are sinners we are actually an enemy of God and lame in our spiritual ability to save ourselves. God saves those like Mephibosheth that do not rely on their own reasources but trust in God's covenant with us.
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1 Corinthians 1:50-58
Death is not the victor because in the end God will judge even death which is the last enemy to be defeated.
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The Christian Pattern
The sermon "Christian Pattern" provides a clear understanding to the way of the cross in the life of a Christian believer. From the enemies of the cross, to being a citizen of the cross, to a friend of the cross, the story is one of hope and resurrection.
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