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Heroes Come In All Shapes and Sizes
Acts 7:54-60
We honor those who sacrificed all.
We think first of our military.
We hear countless stories of our military who stepped in at just the right time to save someone’s life.
Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor was defending the position of SEAL snipers with a machine gun against insurgents on a rooftop in an insurgent-held part of Iraq in September 2006.
The snipers thwarted the insurgents’ first attempt, but during the continued assault, an insurgent grenade reached the roof and bounced off Monsoor’s chest.
Monsoor immediately called, "GRENADE," and jumped on it to absorb the explosion with his own body—even though he could have escaped the position.
Monsoor died shortly after the explosion.
He saved the lives of two other SEALs.
We honor those and many others who have sacrificed for our opportunity and privelege to come to church this morning.
We set aside this time to honor their sacrifice.
John There have many military personnel who have sacrificed, but it is not only the military
There have many military personnel who have sacrificed, but it is not only the military .
The military is normally what comes to mind first.
Many of us have family and/or friends who serve in the military.
They may or may not have served overseas.
But all of us have been touched by it to one extent or another.
The military and their families are not the only ones we choose to honor this morning.
In 2018, there have 32 deaths in the military.
But they are not the only ones who lay their life on the line for the sake of others.
Police officers do also.
There have been 47 deaths of police officers killed in the line of duty in 2018.
We had one as close as Clinton in 2018.
We should respect our police officers.
They are here to serve and protect.
I work with someone who is the wife of a Henry County Police Officer.
She can not go into Kansas City wearing a t-shirt that identifies her as a wife of a police officer because then she becomes a target.
That should not be.
We as a church should lead the way in honoring our police officers.
I look forward to the day, when we as a church, can give out honor bibles to our police officers and give them an honor day from the community.
Tommy Norman, a police officer in North Little Rock, Arkansas, hangs out with kids and the community.
He reaches a hand out and encourages them to make right decisions and supports them as he does.
He is changing the perception of police officers in his part of the world.
He is hero to this community.
As sad as it is that as a country, we lost 47 police officers in the line of duty in 2018, you need to double that number for lost fire fighters.
There were 84 fire fighters who died in the course of trying to save lives and property in 2018.
We honor our military, fire fighters, and police officers who lost their lives in 2018 to protect us.
But there is a group that is forgotten.
And they fight a greater battle.
They are not fighting for personal liberites, demorcacy, or even physical life.
They are engaged in a battle for the very soul.
Matthew 10:28
These are the Christians on the front lines.
Those who are in battle for the very soul of humanity.
The enemy is trying to squash the message of the gospel.
There were 3,066 Christians murdered for the sake of the gospel in 2018.
3,066 men, women, and children who would not deny the name of Jesus Christ and the power of our Resurrected Lord.
We also those, who just like Stephen in our scripture this morning would not back down.
There are heroes of our faith such as William Tyndale who believed everybody had a right to read the bible and understand it for themselves.
It had been in Latin and the Roman Catholic Church would tell people what it meant.
It was believed at the time that the common man was unable to comprehend the will of God.
No one could understand the scriptures if the Holy Spirit did not teach us.
The Lord is no respecter of persons.
He wants us all to understand His will for us and the love He has commended towards us.
These great heroes of faith.
They have led the way for us to hear the gospel and in turn for us to share the gospel with others.
There have been countless millions who have willing to pay the ultimate price for others to hear the life changing gospel.
On lonely Golgotha stood a cross,
With my Lord raised to the sky;
And all who kneel there live forever
As all the saved can testify.
I’m so glad to be called a Christian.
To be named with the ransomed and whole;
As the statue liberates the citizen,
So the cross liberates the soul.
We honor all those who given their all for our civil freedoms and our spiritual freedom.
The curse of sin has been broken.
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