Leading Your Friends in Faith (Final Draft)

Outline:

INTRODUCTION:

Recap: Unbreakable - A series on Community

Find Frinds of Faith

Be a Frinds with Faith

Message Title: Tonight I want to talk to you about leading your friends in Faith

Leadership has a role in all of our lives

ILLISTRATION:

Took Tori to her first Highschool Party

I led Tori

We chose to follow the crowd

HARD QUESTIONS:

Are we leading in faith?

Are we being led by people of faith?

VALUE - GOD’S CALL:

God is calling us to lead and live in Faith

MAIN PASSAGE CONTEXT:

Tonight we are going to read about two leaders of Faith (Caleb & Joshua)

Exodus 3:8 (NLT)

So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

The Isralites are near the land promised

God has Moses send spies to inspect

Numbers 13:27–33 (NLT)

This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces. But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak! The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley.”

But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”

But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”

Numbers 14:1–5 (NLT)

Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained. “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”

Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the whole community of Israel.

SUMMARIZE STORY

A call to inspect

They confirmed God’s promise (Milk & Honey)

PROBLEM #1: YOUR TOO FOCUSED ON WHAT IS SEEN

“But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak! The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley.”

Students are to caught up in thier circumstance

Finacial

Emotional

Social

IMPACT:

You can’t lead in Faith

Hebrew 11:1 (NIV)

“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”

PROBLEM #2: ALL YOU DO IS FOLLOW (specifically people with no faith)

But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites

Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night. Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained. “Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?” Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”

IMPACT:

You Rob Yourself of a God Blessing

Hanging out with that group of frinds is keeping you from experiencing freedom

Following that trend because it popular is sinful and seperating you from God

Numbers 14:6–9 (NLT)

Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing. They said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land! And if the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey. Do not rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the Lord is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”

SOULTION #1: WHEN YOUR FAITH IS PUT TO THE TEST TRUST GOD

Isaiah 26:4 (NIV)

Trust in the Lord forever,

for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.

Blessing comes after the testing

SOULTUION #2: FACE POPULAR CULTURE WITH BOLDNESS

1 John 2:15–17 (NIV)

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Romans 12:2 (LEB)

And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Don’t follow the world follow Christ