Week 3 | Boldly Go Where You’ve Never Been Before
From Psalm 23
can bring .
📖 Acts 20:22-23 (ESV) And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, constrained by the Spirit, not knowing what will happen to me there, 23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.
Message Theme: I don’t always KNOW WHERE I’m GOING but my SHEPHERD KNOWS the WAY.
Three things we need PROTECTION from:
1. and .
📖 Ephesians 6:12 (ESV) we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
Three things we need PROTECTION from:
2. of this world.
📖 Romans 12:2 (ESV) Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Three things we need PROTECTION from:
3. of our flesh.
📖 1 Peter 2:11 (ESV) Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
We can boldly travel because:
1. The Lord is ever .
📖 Psalm 23:4 (ESV) Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
📖 Psalm 46:1 (ESV) God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
We can boldly travel because:
2. The Lord is .
📖 Psalm 23:4 (ESV) Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
“The rod was an extension of the owner’s right arm. It stood as a symbol of his strength, his power, his authority in any serious situation. The rod was what he relied on to safeguard both himself and his flock in danger. And it was, furthermore, the instrument he used to discipline and correct any wayward sheep that insisted on wandering away. “
– Philip Keller
A. The rod was a tool of .
📖 Ezekiel 20:37 (ESV) I will make you pass under the rod…
📖 Ezekiel 20:37 (NLT) I will examine you carefully and hold you to the terms of the covenant.
B. The rod was a tool of .
📖 2 Samuel 7:14 (ESV) I will discipline him with the rod of men
C. The rod was a mark of God’s .
📖 Genesis 49:10 (ESV) The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet
When you get God’s Word, you get Satan’s lies.
“There is no substitute for the Scriptures in coping with the complexities of our social order.”
– Philip Keller
The is the tool to the sheep to each other and to the .
📖 Romans 8:16 (ESV) The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God
📖 2 Corinthians 2:12-13 (ESV) When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord, 13 my spirit was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.
We can boldly travel because:
3. The Lord for the .
📖 Psalm 23:5a (ESV) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies
📖 Matthew 4:4 (ESV) “It is written, “ ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ ”
We can boldly travel because:
4. The Lord out the .
📖 Psalm 23:5 (ESV) you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
📖 Luke 11:13 (ESV) If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
📖 John 3:34 (ESV) He (the Father) gives the Spirit without measure.
“O Lord, I can’t cope with these petty, annoying, peevish problems. Please apply the oil of Your Spirit to my mind. Both at the conscious and subconscious levels of my thought-life enable me to act and react just as You would.”
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