Who Is Your Hero?
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What Is A Hero?
What Is A Hero?
13 Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Hero: a person that is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.
“A Hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom”-Bob Dylan
Do you know anyone that this describes?
It is Memorial Day 2020 and we are here to remember those that have lost their lives in combat over the years.
I do appreciate all those that have served our country and put their lives on the lines for the freedom that we enjoy today!
I want to talk about heroes today!
What is a hero and what are the requirements to be called a hero?
We can lessen the meaning behind the hero, if we do not properly define it.
Do you have a Hero in your life?
Can they pass the test of Heroism?
Are they your hero for a specific reason in your life that may not even apply to others in the room.
The hero is one that we all look up to and love for what they have done for us.
I have put together a slide show of a few heroes that I could think of that maybe you can relate too as well.
Start “Heroes” slide show
On the wall there are many different pictures of those that you may call a hero in your life or those that are called heroes because of their label.
Then their are some that are not up here that you may relate to as heroes in your life.
“Martin Luther King Jr”
There are men that are considered heroes because of what they have done for society and how they changed the course of history by their actions.
They are heroes because of the lives that they changed because of they ideology that they pushed into society that changed their thinking towards one another.
They are very important and special people!
“Character Heroes”
Superman
Hulk
Ironman
Batman
Wonder Woman
Then there are those that have been labeled heroes because of imagination.
They have been created to represent the wishes and hopes of those looking for those with special powers.
The type of powers that are out of this world.
They are powers that could not be possible with the natural human.
“Medical Heroes”
Doctor
Nurse
EMT
Then there are those that have been labeled heroes for what they can do internally.
Those that come to our rescue when we get in trouble or get sick.
These are the ones that can use the knowledge of modern medicine to heal and make us feel better and keep us from dyeing.
They are the ones that have been able to do miracles through surgeries and other therapies.
“President Obama”
“President Trump”
Then, no matter your political beliefs, there are those that are considered heroes because of what they have done politically in our country.
They political theories or position they may have on laws and how people should be treated.
They are considered heroes sometimes due to what they promise to give them.
This can be a tough place to be in if you are the politician.
“Families”
Grandparents
Mothers
Fathers
Friends
The family can be full of heroes as well as enemies...
I know you may be in the place that you can not see that your parents or grandparents are the heroes that you should look up to, but one day you will see what they have done for you.
There are a lot of Grandparents out there that have come along side their children and encouraged them and held them up when life got tough.
There are a lot of mothers that have gone the extra mile to raise children without the help of a spouse of parents.
They work multiple jobs and stay up late just to make sure that their families are taken care of.
Then there are fathers that have worked the long hours and worked the extra jobs to provide for their families and put food on the tables.
Both are heroes in my book!
Then there are the friends that take the long phone calls from you because your life is about to fall apart and you need someone to talk to.
“Military”
Army
Navy
Air-force
Marines
Coast Guard
Police Officers
Fire Fighters
These are the guys and girls that Memorial Day was design for.
These are the ones that have fought for our freedom and safety.
The different branches of the armed forces over seas and those that fight for us at home.
We must give honor where honor is due.
If it wasn’t for the one that fight for our freedom and safety, we would be in a totally different place this morning.
Imagine how your life would be if you were left on your own to fight for what you have.
We could give story after story of the bravery of the men and women that have put their lives on the line for you and for me.
How could we thank you enough!
“Football”
Clemson coach
GA Tech
GA Quarterback Jake From
Some go as far as to idealize sports!
Football, as an example, has been known to stir up rivals and controversy among friends and family.
Sports in general, bring out the ultra competitiveness in a lot of people.
It amazes me that I can pull for a team that I call my own and really have no ties to that team at all.
We can become so attached to a team through imaginary ownership that it can cause us to idealize those teams and players in an unhealthy way.
“Musicians”
Jennifer Hudson
Casting Crowns
The Beatles
TheGoodmans
Musicians can take the place of heroes to some for the songs that they sing that may have carried you though a rough patch in your life.
We associate those times with those that we attach ourselves to in difficult times.
The musicians will get their songs from only one place or the other.
From God or from Satan!
Music is a powerful force that can be used for good or evil.
We can memorialize a force that could end up destroying us if we are not careful.
Some musicians have been idealized through songs, but also through some of their ideology that they have pushed through their songs.
Either way the musician has acquired the hero status because of the feelings that they have caused in our hearts.
“Religion”
Billy Graham
Paul
Ravi Zachariah
Stephen
Mary
Religion has cropped up with many who have achieved hero status as well.
For one reason or another, someone has said some things or lived a certain way that has sparked a feeling of honor towards that person.
The preaching of the Word by some has provoked a thought or feeling that has caused us to turn our lives around for a religious cause.
This can bring about a feeling of change for a greater good that gives us meaning beyond what we may even think about ourselves.
The thought of a creator that knows who we are or even one that cares and has shown it through someone else can create a feeling of belonging.
Religion can house beliefs that can give us a set of rules to live by.
We are just like our children in that we all long for a set of beliefs or “rules” to compare ourselves to.
Whether is be a preacher, Bible character, or someone in your life that has exhibited the life that you have patterned your life by.
Heroes do exist in the Religious world as well.
“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”-Henry Miller
Who is your hero?
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Through each one of these that we have gone through today, there is only one that can satisfy each one.
13 Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Let’s look back at the scripture that I read at the beginning.
Who is speaking here?
Who is making the claim that there is no friend greater than one who will lay down his for another?
No one loves you as much as the one who lays down his own life for you!
Do you believe this?
Do you believe that there could be someone that is so loving that they would die for you?
There has been one who has changed history by standing up for a section of society that was in need of reform.
There is one that has supernatural powers that can save you in a time of trouble or a time of crisis.
There is one that heal you and do miracles in your body that astounds the medical community.
There is on that has come to the rescue politically at times when history thought that ta government was going to take over the world.
There is on that sticks closer than a brother and cares for you more than even your family can.
There is one that has protected you and fought for your more times than your will ever know because of His protection.
There is one that heads a team that can not loose and will always win no matter how it looks from the outside.
There is one that has inspired song after song through out history that has changed lives over and over again.
There is one who has through the ages of time, has given life changing words and life altering messages.
There is only one that can satisfy everything that all the others has satisfied!
His name is Jesus!
The king of kings and Lord of lords!
He is the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end!
He is the soon coming King!
Do you know who He is?