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Here we go Brownies - Here we Go!! Woof Woof!!
Here we go Brownies - Here we Go!! Woof Woof!!
Did you watch the game last Sunday??
It was GREAT wasn’t it??
Our first DIVISIONAL game this year!
AT HOME - against the STEELERS!! - - We DESTROYED them last year in the playoffs!
Big Ben’s LAST GAME in Cleveland -
ALL the DRAMA - ALL the BUILD UP to the game!!!...
SURELY - we would - BE READY to PLAY!!??
Were we READY to play?
Dropped pass - after dropped pass - after dropped pass!!
We weren’t READY!!
For the past several weeks - the Apostle Paul has been unveiling for us - THE ARMOR of GOD....
The armor of God that we are to ADORN ourselves with - in order to FIGHT our TRUE ENEMY in this world...
The Spiritual forces of evil at work in this fallen world!
A couple weeks ago Paul highlighted for us - the Belt of Truth!
God’s TRUTH...
And we saw how God’s TRUTH...
Anchors Our Souls in the Promises of God (emboldening us to live for Christ)
Reveals the Worth of Christ Over Creation (fixing our eyes on our King)
Elevates Joy in Jesus Over Joy in the World
Preserves the Eternal Glory of God
Paul then FOCUSED in on the Breastplate of Righteousness...
A piece of God’s ARMOR that...
Secures Our Justification
Judges the World
Upholds the Trustworthiness of God
Preserves the Eternal Glory of God
And so let’s quickly get our eyes on this LIST...
Look at ALL that GOD DOES to prepare us for BATTLE...
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Anchors Our Souls in the Promises of God
Reveals the Worth of Christ Over Creation
Elevates Joy in Jesus Over Joy in the World
Secures Our Justification
Judges the World
Upholds the Trustworthiness of God
Preserves the Eternal Glory of God
This is the God we SERVE - ALL of these things - DONE BY GOD...
AND YET!!
TODAY - we see that we are called to what??
Sermon SLIDE:
Put on the Shoes of READINESS!!
And so we can AGREE - and SHAKE our HEADS “YES” - all day long to these truths...
But if we DON’T PREPARE ourselves...
..If we don’t GET OURSELVES - READY!!
Will it matter?
The Browns - SINCE THEY had played the Steelers LAST year in the playoffs and DESTROYED them IN PITTSBURGH...
They’ve been PRACTICING - waiting for the rematch - at OUR place...
Well - last Sunday finally came....
They weren’t - READY!
And it - SHOWED
And so today - I want to look at this READINESS that we’re called to ADORN ourselves with… In order to fight the battle we’re in...
And I’m not sure if we fully comprehend how important this piece of ARMOR is in this battle...
The first thing I want us to look at is WHY we need to be - READY...
SLIDE: The Shoes of Readiness: Needed Because the Enemy is Ready
The Shoes of Readiness
Our ENEMY - is NOT - an amateur
We’re not dealing with JV here!
We’re dealing with a Professional Assassin...
Now I’m the kind of guy that loves to go out to eat… (new places / dives)
I like to go out to lunch...
I’d rather GO OUT to lunch - THAN TO BE lunch for an APEX Predator!
What does this verse say - it’s a popular one...
The devil - OUR ENEMY....is - READY
Ready to DESTROY you!!
NOW - how does the devil DEVOUR people??
How does a LION HUNT?
Lions hunt by:
sneaking up on their prey
So the prey doesn’t know it’s there...
Stays low
Slowly creeps in - closer - and closer...
And then when it’s in striking distance…it attacks!
SIN will often do the same thing to us...
Listen to how Job describes the wicked…the unrighteous...
TRAGEDY - is - READY for his stumbling!
The GRAVE is READY for us....
Listen to what awaits the WICKED man....who does NOT fear God...
Jump down to v11
a DAY of DARKNESS - is READY for us...
Condemnation is - READY
Suffering is - READY for the fool
And so when we think about the fallen world… and the Spiritual forces at work IN IT...
We know that:
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Tragedy
A Day of Darkness
Condemnation
Suffering
The Grave
All of these things - are READY for us…in a fallen world!!
And you might think - How are they READY for us?
They’re READY for us - just like GRAVITY is always READY for us to trip…to stumble....to fumble what we hold
Gravity is always ready!
I read a story this week of a guy working at a San Diego Zipline park...
Who got pulled out onto the line by the rider…and...
The guy working thought the harness might not hold both of them so he let go...
He feel about 70 feet and ended up dying.
Gravity is ALWAYS ready - is it not?
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