2024.09.08 - Days - Spirit War

2024.09.08 - Spirit War

Saturday, September 07, 2024

5:57 PM

We are not fighting a cultural battle - we are fighting a spiritual war

 

1. 1. Nothing New 

1. a. Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. KJV

1. 2. Lines In The Sand Or Walls In The Spirit

1. a. We leave it up to others, to those who we call moral, ethical, leaders, those who we voted into office to do the right thing and lead us in the right direction to decide for us:

1. 1. How far is too far?

1. 2. When is enough enough?

1. 3. These questions MUST be filtered through the Word of God. 

1. b. Fads, Culture And Sin

1. 1. Countries, states, cities, even churches have cultures that may differ from one to another

1. 1. There is nothing wrong with that until those ideologies differ and stray from the Word of God.

1. 2. When we are told what to believe by a people who have proven themselves lost to the Knowledge of God.

1. 2. Difference between culture and coercion

1. 3. Difference between walking in unity and walking in uniformity 

1. 3. Cultural Relevance VS Spiritual Maturity 

1. a. Why do we come to Church?

1. 1. Do we come for information or transformation? 

1. 1. There is a marked difference

1. 2. If the Light is on in The House is should not surprise you when roaches scatter.

1. 3. Itching ears

1. 4. Cancel Culture

1. a. Judges 2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. KJV

1. b. Judges 2:10 After that generation died, another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the mighty things he had done for Israel. NLT

1. 1. We cannot afford to leave it up to the next generation to interpret what they have not seen.  

1. 2. We write history by living it.

1. 1. They will not so much be changed by what we say but by what we did.  The memories of our walk should be burned onto the hearts of those that know us . . .

1. 3. Christianity is who we are - we need to live it out in our day to day lives.

1. 4. I don’t change the truth  - the truth changes me 

1. 5. Truth is a person - Jesus Christ 

1. c. I can boycott, yell and scream, tear down statues and say this and that did not happen but in the end every knee will still bow and every tongue will still confess that Jesus Christ is Lord

1. 5. Equipped For The Fight

1. a. We say there is not war because we are not equipped to fight it

1. b. We accept the way it is and what we have because what we want is too expensive and we are not willing to pay the cost

1. c. It is time to press!

1. 1. Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. KJV

1. • If you want to LEAVE a legacy then BE a legacy . . .