September 27th
Fight My Battles | Week 3
Pandemics. Politics. Racial Inequality. The economy. It seems as though we wake up every day in the middle of a battlefield. We see the division, feel the anger, and hear the rallying cries, we often don't know what side to stand with or what conflict to enter into. But have we ever asked ourselves if we are choosing the right battles? Are we using the right tactics in the midst of the fray? And does God define winning the same way we do? Join us as we explore battles that were overcome throughout the Old Testament and what those victories reveal to us about the battles of today.
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BRIAN BLUM | LEAD PASTOR
Passages:
2 Kings 6:24-25 NLT Some time later, however, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army and besieged Samaria. As a result, there was a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver.
2 Kings 7:3a NLT Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates.
2 Kings 7:3b-4 NLT “Why should we sit here waiting to die?” they asked each other. “We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway.”
2 Kings 7:5-7 NLT So at twilight they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there! For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us!” they cried to one another. So they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives.
2 Kings 7:9 NLT Finally, they said to each other, “This is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone!