Step Boldly
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// INTRO
// INTRO
Summer is always an exciting time - no tests, no homework, no alarm clocks, it’s just different.
But at the end of Summer, things change - we get back into a routine, or perhaps we build a new routine.
New Middle Schoolers
New High Schoolers
Graduates
As you guys are navigating these changes, I want to take one night and celebrate our graduates for completing an incredible milestone, but also encourage everyone of us going through changes in our mission.
The Goal: you will leave tonight able to “step boldly into your next mission”
Am I Called?
Am I Called?
God is speaking to Joshua after Moses has died...
5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. 6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua
Victory is assured because Joshua is called by God
Victory is assured because Joshua is called by God
5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
How do you know if you are called?
Everyone is called...
17 Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
23 You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. 24 So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.
you were called by God, live a life like someone that was called by God almighty!
you were bought with a price (calvary)
don’t belong to someone that didn’t pay for you
belong to the only One that paid the price for you
God will speak to your weakness
God will speak to your weakness
6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
Joshua
Joshua is called to boldness - this exposed Joshua’s weakness…he had doubts about himself
good enough
…he
ready enough
eise enough
strong enough
Joshua was NOT thrown into this moment. He was constantly with Moses while they wandered through the desert for 40 years. Joshua was one of the two of the twelve that came back and said lets go take the land. There was boldness in him, but in this moment we see that he lacked confidence in his new position/mission.
**side note** there is no record of anyone opposing Joshua in this moment. He wasn’t afraid of the people, I believe he was afraid of going WITHOUT God with him.
The solution is God’s Word
The solution is God’s Word
8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua didn’t just need to read God’s word...
Truth had to be spoken (on his lips)
Truth had to be known (in his mind)
Truth had to be lived (had to do it)
Partner with Others
Partner with Others
Joshua acted on God’s word; the result:
He partnered with others to accomplish God’s plan
10 And Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
Entering College Years:
- didn’t seek help and ended up wasting my first year of college
- didn’t take inventory or ask others what they saw in me, and because I didn’t think much of myself, I wasted that time
Paul to Timothy
Paul to Timothy
Timothy became a great pastor because he had the support and wisdom from Paul.
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, 2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul addresses Timothy as his true son in the faith - this shows relationship
The people that you surround yourself with will ultimately become the person you look like.
Fight with God
Fight with God
Paul wrote three letters to the generation to follow him, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus
Look at the advice that Paul is giving Timothy about how to live his life:
11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Flee
Flee & Fight
Flee & Fight
Flee from the things in
Fight the good fight of the faith
How do you fight? Pursue the following:
Righteousness (doing what’s right)
Godliness (living like God tells us)
Faith (believing without seeing)
Love (love like you’ve never been hurt)
Steadfast (have patience and don’t give up right away)
Gentleness (have compassion on others)
Take Hold of Eternal Life
You’ve made a confession to follow Jesus
You’ve been baptized and gone public with your faith
Don’t abandon eternal life for momentary pleasure!