But What Kind Sunday August 23 2015 Wayne Hartsgrove QUESTIONS 1 As soldiers of the Lord God is building CHARACTER in us 2 The Lord saw Gideon very ID: 328416
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It’s Not How ManyBut What Kind
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Wayne
HartsgroveSlide2Slide3
QUESTIONSSlide4Slide5
1. As soldiers of the Lord, God is building CHARACTER in us. Slide6
2. The Lord saw Gideon very DIFFERENTLY from how Gideon saw himself. Slide7
3. Gideon saw himself as YOUNG, WEAK, and INEFFECTIVE. Slide8
Gideon originally had 32,000 men in his army but he ended up with 3,000 men Slide9
5. A very important character quality or requirement of a soldier of the Lord is VIGILANCE (watching, guarding, being alert, and praying especially to danger)Slide10
6. 300 of the men drank the water by LAPPING IT LIKE A DOG.Slide11
7. Gideon’s army of 300 men was facing 135,000 Midianites; they were outnumbered by a ratio of 450-1.Slide12
8. How many men laid down their weapons and buried their faces in the water? 9,700.Slide13
9. Maintaining constant vigilance as soldiers of the Lord in battle demands PERSONAL DISCIPLINE in every situationSlide14
10. Ultimately, only ONE soldier out of ONE HUNDRED qualified.Slide15
ScripturesSlide16Slide17
8 “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9 Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
1 Peter 5:8-9 Slide18
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.9
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your
thoughts”.
Isaiah 55:8-9Slide19
11 Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree which was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the
Abiezrite, while his son Gideon threshed wheat in the winepress, in order to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the Angel of the
Lord
appeared to him, and said to him, “The
Lord
is
with you, you mighty man of valor!”
Judges 6:11-12Slide20
24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:24Slide21
3 “Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.’” And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained”.
Judges 7:3Slide22
4 But the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.”
Judges 7:4Slide23
5 So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps from the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set apart by himself; likewise everyone who gets down on his knees to drink.” every man to his place.”
Judges 7:5Slide24
6 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water. 7 Then the Lord said to Gideon, “By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place.”
Judges 7:6-7Slide25
8 “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8