Courage for the Journey of a Lifetime

Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 23: 21b …He also went into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion.

Sermon Title: Courage for the Journey of a Lifetime

Point 1: Benaiah’s Journey vs. 20b He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. One morning, we don’t know which morning; Benaiah stared down the hard thing, jumped into a pit on a snowy day, and killed a lion.

This wasn’t the first time Benaiah had stared down an opportunity and challenge to do the hard thing for God. This was the nature of Benaiah’s journey. This is all he knew how to do. The text says in vs. 20 he struck down two of Moab’s best men.

The third thing recorded in the text says he struck down an Egyptian soldier that was over seven feet tall. Vs. 21 says, even though the Egyptian had a spear in his hand Benaiah went against him with a club.

Point 2: New Life we too are at the morning of our journey.

·       Not enough seats…

·       Not enough parking…

·       Not enough room for our children’s ministry…

·       Not enough adult classrooms...

        We have an opportunity to grow. We have an opportunity to have the guts to give God all the glory if we let him use us to solve these problems and reach more souls. Or we can commit the SIN OF OMISSION.

When it comes to God it doesn’t take more of God to do one thing and less of God to do another thing. It’s that view of God that gets us in trouble with believing God for one thing and doubting Him for another. God does all things with same amount of Godness. All problems are equal to God.

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