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Today
is Veteran’s Day 2018. I would like to recognize each veteran of our US
military and thank them for their service. I am a veteran of the USAF and I am
proud to be an American. Freedom is not free … God bless America and God bless our Veterans.
Thank you for your service.
Today
we will discuss the importance of being prepared. In order to discover the
truth God wants to reveal today, we are going to look at the lives of three individuals
spoken of in the Bible. It is my hope that I can adequately represent God’s
desire for us to always be prepared.
The
First Person: Abraham
·
About
2000BC
·
The
setting …
o The plains of Mamre
near the city of Hebron in the Land of Canaanites.
·
The
Story …
Genesis 14
14 And when Abram heard that
his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in
his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
15 And he divided himself
against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them
unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
16 And he brought back all
the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women
also, and the people.
What
do these verses teach us about the necessity of being prepared?
·
Evidently
Abraham had spent time and money preparing for war.
o He trained 318
servants – He spent time
o Abraham had an
arsenal ready – He spent resources
·
These
318 men did what 5 Kings and their armies could not do …
o Why?
o They were “Born in the house” …
The truth is:
We must prepare for war in the
time of peace.
The
Second Person to demonstrate God’s law preparedness: Joseph
Genesis 41
34 “Let Pharaoh do this,
and let him appoint officers over the land, to collect one-fifth of the
produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful years.
35 “And let them gather all
the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under the
authority of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.
36 “Then that food shall be
as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the
land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine.”
53 Then the seven years of
plenty which were in the land of Egypt ended,
54 and the seven years of
famine began to come, as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in
all the land of Egypt there was bread.
The truth is:
We must prepare for famine in the
years of plenty.
The
Third Person is You.
Did you know that the Bible speaks about you and the necessity of being
prepared?
The truth is:
We must prepare for heaven while
living here on earth.
The
Roman’s Road to Salvation helps us to better understand God’s plan for every
life.
1.
Romans 3:23 for all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God;
2.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
3.
Romans 10:13 For “whoever
calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.”
Just
as we must prepare for war in the time of peace and prepare for famine in the years
of plenty, we must also prepare for heaven while living here on the earth.
Are you prepared?
