There
are things in life that should be settled forever. There are certain
things in life that you really shouldn't even have to pray about
it. Some of these things, I'm going to be sharing here tonight
and tomorrow; and I'm going to be speaking directly to the cadets,
and to other people that are here that are in the military. But
these same principles and these same spiritual laws govern our
lives that are maybe not in military service, but we are soldiers
in the army of the Lord. And we are to endure hardship as a good
soldier, we are not civilians. If you have accepted Jesus of Nazareth
as your Lord and your Savior, then you are no longer a civilian;
the New Testament does not refer to you as a civilian.
But now, there are certain things that men and women will be facing
after graduation from this fine place of training and education.
Now let me tell you something, they are going to be going into
combat. This generation that you and I are part of, is more subject
and more likely to go into combat than any other generation before
us. There are certain things that ever soldier needs to settle,
that it be settled once and for all and dealt with according to
God's Word and not according to general religious ideas and thinking.
There're a lot of religious ideas that'll get you killed...
...There comes a time in the course of human
events, when mean, ungodly people reject the peaceful laws of
God and inflict suffering and pain to such a degree that only
war will stop it. And because of what I've learned over the last
40 years in a constant, consistent study of God's Word (and I
don't study the Bible just to find something to preach); we learned
40 years ago to search out and study the Word because it is final
authority in our lives; we act on it as quickly as we would the
word of a lawyer or a doctor or a very highly trusted friend;
and it is knowledge acted on that brings results; God's Word is
the most powerful thing ever allowed in the human man and in his
hands to handle on the earth; and because of my study for 40 years
and particularly in the lines of which I'm going to speak to you
tonight, settle this, I believe in war. I believe in war according
to God's Word. And there are some things that we're going to discuss
tonight and tomorrow in the background of this and as I said,
these are things that need to be settled now.
The pain and the suffering that mean, ungodly people bring on
other peoples in the earth by rejecting the peaceful laws of God,
that it gets to the point where local law enforcement cannot contain
it. When that happens, the Prince of Peace becomes the Man of
War in order to stop it. And He will; and He does, Amen.
Now
then, wars are fought on two fronts. Now you need to remember
that this is in any area of life, most especially in combat. But
all of us, I mean the entire human race is facing some kind of
war in their life all the time. I mean, death starts after you,
the day you're born. And the Bible said 'fight the good fight
of faith' so there's a faith fight to be fought. Amen. Wars are
fought on two fronts, the spiritual front and the natural, physical
front. If you lose the spiritual war, you are bound to lose the
physical war.
God is a spirit and a spirit created all material things. So the
material things could never be greater than its Creator. So, all
physical laws are subject to spiritual laws. Spiritual laws govern
every thing in human life. This physical universe was created
for one reason and one reason only, to house humankind. |
