Part 8 | Faith to Fight

Hebrews 11:32-34

📖  Hebrews 11:32 ESV And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets—

Faith isn’t passive on God; it’s in what God calls us to do. 

📖  Hebrews 10:38–39 ESV but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” 39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

1. Faith despite our .

📖  Hebrews 11:32–33 ESV And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets— 33 who through faith…

What is your ?

A. – Gideon and Barak
B. – David and Samson
C. – David and Jephthah

📖  Galatians 5:17 ESV For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

📖  Psalm 139:2–4 ESV You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. 4 Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.

2. Faith despite the .

📖  Hebrews 11:33 ESV who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

📖  Judges 7:2 ESV The LORD said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

📖  1 Samuel 17:45–47 ESV Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, … 47 and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

📖  2 Corinthians 10:3–5 ESV For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Our weapons have power.

Weapon #1: The – Luke 10:17

Weapon #2: The – Ephesians 6:17/Hebrews 4:12

Weapon #3: The – Philippians 1:27

3. Faith with God .

📖  Hebrews 11:34 ESV were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

📖  Ephesians 6:10 ESV Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength 
of his might.

Sermon in a Sentence:

Faith is not passive ; it’s active in the of life.

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