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A Well Oiled Machine
I enjoy World War II.
I enjoy the heroes.
I think it was a great war when the enemy was obvious.
You have the good guys and you have the bad guys.
It is pretty black and white.
I think that World War II featured great heroes who did what it took to accomplish their task.
One of my favorite personalities in the war was George Patton, he was the 4 star general of the third army.
He fought in Africa, and was a huge part of the invasion into Europe.
He knew how to motivate his troops.
Some would say he didn’t know how to motivate his troops as well, or that he did it wrong.
One time, he slapped a shell-shocked soldier for refusing to fight, and he was publicly humiliated and taken out of combat, which for Patton, was a huge penalty.
World War II was what he lived for.
Regardless of what people think about Patton, his army was a well oiled machine.
His army, was always on the move.
They had a goal in mind, and they were going to meet it.
Patton never wanted to stop.
I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position."
We are not holding a Goddamned thing.
Let the Germans do that.
We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls.
We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time.
Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy.
One time he said,
“I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position."
We are not holding anything thing.
Let the Germans do that.
We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, ... Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy.”
And he did just that.
His superiors often had different goals than Patton.
And he would loudly disobey their orders.
He was convinced he could win the war, and get it over with quickly.
As his superiors were holding him back, Patton was running forward at full speed.
He said, “We have, at this time, the greatest chance to win the war ever presented.
… If they will let me move on … we can be in Germany in ten days.”
But his words fell on deaf ears, he said of his superiors, “It is such a sure thing that I fear these blind moles don’t see it.”
The truth is, that there were politics involved, and Patton wasn’t a part of their plans.
His superiors ultimately found out how to slow him down.
They cut his supply lines.
He was not receiving gas for his tanks.
He said, “My men can eat their belts … but my tanks gotta have gas.”
Patton, had a fine army, but when that machine wasn’t working, when his supply lines were cut, his war machine came to a halt.
I want to see Southwest be a unit that moves forward.
We are to be active.
We are to be moving.
We are to go into the world and make disciples.
It was brought up in CU last week, that Christ will build his church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Gates aren’t offensive weapons.
You don’t hear of gates being offensive too much.
There are no guns that shoot gates at people.
Gates keep people out.
And Christ has promised that even the gates of Hell shall not prevail over the church.
Christ said that He saw Satan cast out of heaven like lightning.
The strong man is bound.
And now his kingdom is being looted.
God is transferring people out of the domain of darkness, and into Christ’s kingdom.
says of the early church that they were turning the world upside down.
Christ has promised a victory.
There’s this beauty of what the church is.
Individually, we are weak.
In our preconverted state, we are not who you would pick.
On Wednesday night, Ron brought up the old memory of a school yard, and two captains picking their teams for Dodgeball.
You know how it goes.
The athletic kids get picked.
The tall kids get picked.
And the last ones to get picked … are the ones no one wants.
And if you had a team of those kids that no one wanted … it’d be a bad team.
But guess what?
God is building a team of those that no one would want.
says that God has chosen those who are low and despised.
You would think that means we will be defeated.
But he doesn’t send us out defenseless.
God isn’t fielding a team of rejects.
That would just be cruel.
Those He converts, He sends the Holy Spirit upon.
And those who receive the Holy Spirit, then are gifted.
Last week we read, “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”
Last week we learned that God has gifted the church for service.
And in case I didn’t make this clear let me try and make it clearer.
When we say that God has gifted us, or that there are spiritual gifts, when the Bible says spiritual gifts, this isn’t us giving gifts.
This isn’t us giving sacrifices to God.
We are not talking about our gift to God.
We are talking about God’s gift to us, or the Spirit’s gift to us.
He gifts us.
We are the recipients of that gift.
Then we use it.
At Christmas you receive a present.
It’s a pretty box.
It’s wrapped up with expensive paper that in moments you will rip up and throw away.
On that box is a tag.
On the top line it says, “TO: Luke”
And underneath it, “From: Mom.”
A spiritual gift is to you, and it is from God.
And then you use that gift for the church.
Today we will look at what these gifts are, and how they shape us.
We are continuing in
I had grand plans to preach through the rest of the chapter today, then as I was writing my notes, I realized … there’s no way that’s gonna happen.
So we will read , then skip down to verses 28-30.
Then next week, we will fill in the blank.
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