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Let’s Eat Week 3
Let’s Eat Week 3
Week 1 - We dealt with the drive of Jesus in the garden
Week 2 - We dealt with Zacchaeus - His drive to EAT cause him to make adjustments that changed his perspective
Today I want to talk about leaving it all on the field - The field called life
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
“For I am already being poured out as a drink offering”
The picture is of a drink offering being poured on the lamb of sacrifice just before it was burned on the altar (Numbers 28:24) [EBC].
He offers his life to God, as a wine offering is poured out on the altar.
This pictures the process that leads to the shedding of his blood, his death as a martyr, in which he considers himself as an offering to God.
Just for the record....
We all give of ourselves to something....
We pour our energy into something…
The question that I must ask myself is.... What is the something?
“The time of my departure has come”
We all have an arrival date…
We all have a departure date…
What am I doing with the time in between
Remember your life / Energy / Focus is being poured out somewhere
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
“I have fought the good fight”
The Greek word agonizomai, translated “fought,” means literally “to engage in conflict.”
The word was used in the context of competing in athletic games or engaging in military conflict.
Our battle is not with flesh and blood “but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12).
The Christian life is a fight in that Christians face a never-ending struggle against evil—not an earthly military campaign, but a spiritual battle...
Yet, Paul also had physical opposition (2 corinthians 11:22-33)
in stripes above measure
in prisons more frequently
faced death often
from the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one
three times I was beaten with rods
once I was stoned
three times I was ship wrecked
a night and a day I have been in the deep
in journeys often
in danger of robbers
In danger of my own country men
In danger of the Gentiles
In danger in the city
In danger in the wilderness
In danger in the sea
In danger among false brethren
in weariness and toil
in sleeplessness often
in hunger and thirst
in often fastings
in cold and nakedness
Besides the other things, what comes upon me daily my deep concern for all the churches...
Remember the Good Fight - Has to do with the great work
and the great work is God’s work!
If you can fight a good fight then you can fight a bad fight…
A fight that is not focused on God’s work but “my work”
(pulled in the wrong direction)
“I have finished the race”
The course / The plan / The Race / The call / What God had designed
“I have kept the faith”
Through it all he kept his faith in Jesus Christ…
LETS EAT
The difference between me and Paul is…
He said “I have” and I am saying “I am”
The key is keeping our eyes on Jesus
looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
I am fighting the Good fight - The Good fight is doing God’s work
I am doing God’s works and I will not stop…
I will not stop because insecurities
I will not stop because of fear and doubt
I will not stop because of unhealthy relationships
“I am going to finish the race”
Whatever it takes --- Keep your eyes on the Author and the Finisher of the Race!
(The rope is a reminder)
I am going to keep the faith
I’m to close to give up…
No time to turn back…
Kept: to keep in a certain state, position, or activity.
Don’t move your position of Faith…
Let’s EAT! We have work to do…