The Militant Church by Lester Sumrall

Author:Lester Sumrall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Spiritual Warfare, Social Science, Church and Social Problems, Christian Life, Evangelistic Work, General, Religion, Aggressiveness, Sociology of Religion
ISBN: 9780883683644
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 1990-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

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Go Out Militantly

There were giants on the earth in those days....

Genesis 6:4

The Bible says There were giants on the earth in those days... but there is much speculation among theologians and writers about these giants. We don't need to dispute among ourselves about who they were or their origin, suffice to accept what the Bible says—they existed. Elsewhere in the Old Testament we read of the giants on the earth who were fearful to behold and scared the wits out of otherwise sensible men.

I submit to you that there are "giants" on the earth today also—giants that are not ten feet tall, giants that don't sleep in thirteen feet long and six feet wide beds (see Deut. 3:11 NIV), but they are commanding in what they demand from those who succumb to them and their evil hold. The Bible tells us to kill these giants when we encounter them, but you don't do it by looking at their bigness. Giants are done away with by looking to your Source of strength. Giants can be defeated. Giants can be reduced to midgets incapable of harming you or your loved ones. But you can't play with giants of sin and rebellion or they will overpower and destroy you.

The evil giants in the Old Testament days were killed. You don't wound or just embarrass giants.

David's encounter with the giant Goliath teaches an indisputable truth. David said,

"You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you ... that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands"

1 Samuel 17:45-47

Whether it is fear, alcohol, drugs, festering hatreds, lust, or whatever the monster stalking you, you can be set free from that giant.

David didn't need Saul's armor, and you don't need someone else's armor either. You need to use what God has given you, but you need to know that it has to be used.

We are not to be giant offenders, we are to be giant killers. Jesus said in Acts 1:8, But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.... We have been given that power to defeat the giants sent by the devil. One of the ways we do that is through going out militantly to our families, our neighbors, our cities and towns.

Many times people will witness apologetically, as if they are ashamed to stand up for what they believe. You do not apologize for saving someone from the fires of hell. That is where people are going who do not receive Jesus.

We are not to be apologetic or timid.

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