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Freedom from Defeat
Last week I told you that we would be discussing several freedoms over the next few weeks.
Last week we discussed freedom from condemnation.
We talked about how the past is the past in Christ and that we no longer have to hold onto that baggage, but we can embrace the future and the new life with full confidence.
This morning I want talk to you about freedom from defeat.
In your life as a Christian there will no doubt be times when you feel like Gideon.
We will be discussing Gideon in length in our night services, but for now I will give you a small overview.
If you’re familiar with the recount of Gideon you know he was charged to help Israel defeat those whom oppressed them.
He started out with a decent army, but still outnumbered.
Then God dwindled his army and waited.
Someone needs to hear this: I needed to hear this.
If you are getting discouraged in the place God has you right now than your in the right place.
God will take you to a place where you cannot take the credit for the victory and in order to do that you have first have to wait and dwindle.
As humans we tend to pace and question.
I know when I get to this place I am trying everything and anything to scrape my way out of bottom.
So how, when times get hard, do we quit quitting and start winning.
Romans 8:5-
To win battles in the midst of great discouragement:
Discouragement starts in the mind.
Your ears, your eyes, your senses are all flooding your mind and what Paul is stating that if we live our life according to the flesh our minds will focus on the natural.
The best way I can describe this is through what I am going through right now with the house we are flipping.
My wife and I have dedicated a decent chunk of the sale of our house to a specific ministry—not the church.
As soon as we did that, made that up in our mind, Satan began attacking.
In the last two weeks, my painter took off with the deposit.
The work that was done, had to be redone.
The money I had is gone, because I had to pay people to do the work I already paid to get done.
Right now, understand this message is a timely message for me, but I, we, cannot walk around like those without hope.
Understand what Paul is stating: When I focus on the money I don’t have, the work that still needs to be done and paid for, the ministry check I wrote I begin to focus on the natural realm.
I begin to focus on the things of the flesh.
Listen some here have a misconception of the flesh.
The flesh isn’t only lust, lying, and such.
It’s anything that can be taken in through one of your five senses---it’s your bank account, your mortgage, you car.
Anything that makes you loose sleep, makes your stomach hurt, or causes stress is of the flesh.
It doesn’t matter what the Doctor told you because as we are going to find out—you may think you have the Spirit of God, but a true mark of a Christian is when
The Spirit of God Has You!
Satan wants you to focus on the flesh.
That’s his playground.
But I know the promises of God.
Faith isn’t only the unseen, but according to Paul in this verse faith is conviction—meaning something you believe beyond a shadow of a doubt, of anything that stand outside of our 5 senses.
It’s knowing that, man I might see no phyiscal way out, but
Whatever God set you to do will finish.
You will get over this hump.
For me my house WILL SELL ON TIME! and I’ll be able to do what I know God has asked me to do.
The days may come to an open and a close faster than I can keep up, but God is in the Past.
God is in the Present and God is in the future.
Time cannot out run God.
You maybe a dollar short, a week of schedule.
You may have news from the Dr. that is devestating your whole life.
I don’t know what your going through but
HE WHO HAS STARTED THE GOOD WORK WILL FINISH THE GOOD WORK.
If you’re still alive then it isn’t finished.
Jesus said it is finished and he took his last breathe.
If you’re still breathing God is still working.
it’s not time to give up.
It’s not time to surrender.
IT IS TIME TO
REFOCUS
and maybe draw your eyes outside of the flesh and focus on the Spirit of God.
I don’t have time to focus on the negative, because God has me running toward the positive.
I was listening to a Podcast this week.
A man’s daughter was in a car accident.
She was life flighted to the hospital.
They had her in the OR.
The family is pacing with worry and concern.
After several hours the Dr. comes out and says that they had to amputate his daughters leg, but she will be fine.
This man starts loudly praising God cathcing the eye of not only his family, but everyone else.
They ask why he s rejoicing.
Their daughters life has changed.
He said because there isn’t brain damage and there isn’t death.
Joy doesn’t come from different circumstances joy comes from refocusing.
Removing our eyes from the things of the flesh and setting them on the things of the Spirit.
The mind of the flesh
Does not Submit to God’s law
God’s law takes 1 jar of oil and pours out enough to fill hundreds of jars.
God’s law take 5 loaves of bread and feeds 5 thousand
God’s law takes the widows mite and multiplies to reach thousands for the Gospel.
God’s law doesn’t obide by Newton’s 3rd law.
God doesn’t make bad things happen, but he turns your morning into dancing.
He takes what Satan uses to destroy and he creates a testimony that could only glorify Him.
He takes an army and marches them around a wall singing until it collapses.
Praise and worry cannot inhabit the same space.
You cannot worry when you are head deep in the praises of God.
You wonder why stress has you down?
You wonder why sickness is destroying you.
It’s because you come here on Sunday morning and and sit during praise and worship.
Something tells me if you’re sitting on Sunday your sitting on monday.
If your sitting on monday than your sitting on tuesday.
and so on.
You cannot receive the victory until you begin to dance and shout the victory.
Let us dance and shout the victory.
Why?
Not because you have the Spirit of God within you, but because the
Spirit of God has YOU
Romans *:15
And as Son’s God will protect us, God will lead us, God will rescue us!
The suffering your in now is going to lead to glorifying of your savior.
You cannot rejoice if you have nothing to rejoice over.
If there aren’t hard times there cannot be good times.
If there aren’t times of work, there cannot be times of pleasure.
But trust me when I say if God has put you in a time of work your time of play is going to come shortly.
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