Guard what is committed to you

John 10:10 NKJV

10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

There is a thief who wan’t to steal and kill and destroy.

Jesus Christ when he comes into our life, he sows into our life things that will grow and produce life in abundance.

Satan come to steal and kill and destory what God sows into our heart, so that instead of living trhough what is sowed, we die.

Jesus role is to sow into our life, we must guard what has been sown into our life lest what the enemy comes and stills and kills it.

Revelation 3:1–3 (NKJV)

1 “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.

2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God.

3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.

They had let the things that God had sown in their life to die.

2 Timothy 1:14 NKJV

14 That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

1 Timothy 6:20 NKJV

20 O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge—

There is something that we have to guard, and and keep by the Holy Spirit.

The grace that has been Given to us, the word that has been sown in our life that we have to keep lest we find it stolen.

This message is to alert us so that we don’t fall to the same condemnation as the church of sardis.

How does the Enemy come to steal from us.

Many schemes he uses.

Distraction

1 Kings 20:38–40 (NKJV)

38 Then the prophet departed and waited for the king by the road, and disguised himself with a bandage over his eyes.

39 Now as the king passed by, he cried out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and there, a man came over and brought a man to me, and said, ‘Guard this man; if by any means he is missing, your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

40 While your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” Then the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”

Distraction that is called busy.

We can be so busy with so many unimportant things, so many things that can distract us that we lose what is precious.

He lost the man who he was suppose to guard because he was no busy here and there.

The enemy will you distraction to get busy with so many unimportant things that you forget to guard what has been commited to you.

2. Slumber

1 Samuel 26:7–12 (NKJV)

7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night; and there Saul lay sleeping within the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the people lay all around him.

8 Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered your enemy into your hand this day. Now therefore, please, let me strike him at once with the spear, right to the earth; and I will not have to strike him a second time!”

9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him; for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?”

10 David said furthermore, “As the Lord lives, the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go out to battle and perish.

11 The Lord forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the Lord’s anointed. But please, take now the spear and the jug of water that are by his head, and let us go.”

12 So David took the spear and the jug of water by Saul’s head, and they got away; and no man saw or knew it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen on them.

Sleep cause Saul’s spear and water to be stolen.

He had no clue that his spear and water was gone.

The spear represents the word of God , the water represents the spirit of God.

The spear is the weapon by which we defeat the enemy, the water is by which we are sustained.

David could have killed Saul.

The enemy is not like David he will not hesitate to kill and destory what we have is we give him that opportunity through slumber

Psalm 13:3 NKJV

3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death;

We must not sleep but be alert

1 Peter 5:8 NKJV

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

3. Being outside of God’s spiritual boundary,

Deuteronomy 11:10–12 (NKJV)

10 For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden;

11 but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,

12 a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.

When an israelite left the boundaries of this land one reason or another when they returned theyalways returned having lost something.

Ruth 1:1–5 NKJV

1 Now it came to pass, in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem, Judah, went to dwell in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. 2 The name of the man was Elimelech, the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion—Ephrathites of Bethlehem, Judah. And they went to the country of Moab and remained there. 3 Then Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons. 4 Now they took wives of the women of Moab: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they dwelt there about ten years. 5 Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died; so the woman survived her two sons and her husband.

Ruth 1:19–21 NKJV

19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?” 20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

David as an example

1 Samuel 30:1–5 NKJV

1 Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, 2 and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. 3 So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. 4 Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 5 And David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had been taken captive.

Zechariah 9:12 NKJV

12 Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you.