Part 5 “Moving from Surviving to Thriving”
From Exodus 17
📖 Exodus 17:8-13 (ESV) Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.
📖 Numbers 13:25-27 (ESV) At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land… 27 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. ill with the staff of God in my hand.”
📖Numbers 13:28-29 (ESV) However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. 29 The dwell in the land of the Negeb…
The same they in their was them in their !
Message Points:
1. It’s to get in the .
2. With the , it’s to on from the .
📖 Exodus 17:14 (ESV) Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
📖 Exodus 17:16 (ESV) “A hand upon the throne of the LORD! The LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Our present reality is a not a .
A. We have a SPIRITUAL ENEMY who was at the Cross.
📖 Colossians 2:15 (ESV) He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in the Cross.
B. We have a SPIRITUAL ENEMY who is still to from our .
📖 1 Peter 5:8 (ESV) Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
C. We will have over our ENEMY if we .
📖 Revelation 20:10 (ESV) and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
📖 Matthew 10:22 (ESV) “… the one who endures to the end will be saved.”
📖 Hebrews 10:36-38 (ESV) you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; 38 but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
3. We have a : in the or in God’s .
📖 Exodus 17:12 (ESV) But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
