Our Supreme Messiah #23 - Great Faith Lessons from the Unlikely Pt. 2

He literally Tore apart a lion With his bare hands He killed A thousand Philistines With a jawbone Of an ass This guy was He was a dude man He was He was doing it And he had the power Of God with him So it sounds like A pretty good hero Right? Why was he An unlikely hero? Well As much as that Superhuman strength That God gave him He had a moral weakness With women He ended up Marrying A Philistine woman Big problem Because they were The enemy [00:44:32] (37 seconds)  #StrongButFlawed

And literally In that moment God gives him Strength again He pulls down The pillar And kills 3,000 Philistines And himself In that act That's why he's a hero That's why he's a hero So the lesson I think we can gain From Samson Is this God does not Define our lives By our bad choices But if we're willing To repent By faith And call on God God will use The most unlikely person For his glory [00:47:03] (37 seconds)  #UsedDespiteFailure

Do not let Your family Background Define Who you are Let your faith In God Define you And bring you Victories And what I mean By that That can sound A little confusing I think Is this Is that Some of you Grew up In a wonderful Christian home And a wonderful Family And it was Great And wonderful And you're A Christian Now But let me Be clear Your family Doesn't define you Your mother Being a praying Mother Doesn't define you What defines you Though is your Decision to say Yes to Jesus And go into A relationship With God That's what Defines you [00:52:10] (46 seconds)  #FaithDefinesYou

He killed this Giant guy Named Goliath Right And I don't know If you've read That story lately But that That's an amazing Story And the battle cry And I'm just Going to give you One verse of This battle cry But this battle cry That this young David Yelled out To all the Armies That could hear Goes like this And that All this Assembly May know That the Lord saves Not with the Sword and the Spear For the Battle is The Lord's And he Will give you Into our Hands [00:58:00] (34 seconds)  #BattleIsTheLords

There's A There's A Real Important Lesson For Us Here And I Do Not Want You To Miss This And It Goes Like This Real Faith Should Be Separate From Positive And Negative Outcomes Real Faith Should Be Separate From Positive And Negative Outcomes Sometimes Our Hopes For Positive Results Are Not Always Part Of God's Plan We Have To Accept That You Can Have Great Faith And Not The Positive Outcomes That You Were Praying For And Sometimes That Is The Case That Certainly Was The Case For THESE People [01:13:52] (37 seconds)  #FaithSeparateFromOutcomes

``Real Faith Should Be Separate From Positive And Negative Outcomes Sometimes Our Hopes For Positive Results Are Not Always Part Of God's Plan We Have To Accept That You Can Have Great Faith And Not The Positive Outcomes That You Were Praying For And Sometimes That Is The Case That Certainly Was The Case For These People I Can't Imagine Isaiah Ever Prayed A Prayer Sure Hope I Get Sawed In Two No [01:14:04] (33 seconds)  #FaithBeyondResults

Sometimes Christians Handle This Really Badly And There's A Danger Here If We Don't Understand This Truth And What Happens Sometimes Is This Well Meaning Christian People Will Tell Other Good Christian People Oh Or They'll Say Behind Their Back Oh If They Had Real Faith Or If You Had Real Faith That Wouldn't Have Happened Oh If You Really Believed You Didn't Have Enough Faith Please Don't Ever Tell Anybody That [01:14:43] (40 seconds)  #StopFaithShaming

Folks Here's Your Homework Read Chapter 13 Or Psalm 13 Of David Go Home And It's Short It's Simple But It's This In A Nutshell It's This And I Can't Remember Who Said This And I Tweaked It A Little Bit Myself But I Think This Is True A Statement About Faith It Says Faith Is The Relentless Pursuit Of God No Matter The Results And It's Trusting In God For Whatever Comes And Then Glorifying Him That's Faith In Action Real Faith [01:17:05] (45 seconds)  #RelentlessPursuitOfGod