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Sermon on 1 Samuel 17:34-37
Title: Protecting the Sheep
Theme: Courageously trust that God protects his people
Goal: to encourage God’s people live courageously in their trust in God’s protection.
Need: we often don’t live courageously in trust that God protects his people.
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Introduction about my lack of courage
Theme: courageously trust that God protects his people
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David was courageous in the face of dangers
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David was courageous because of his faith
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What would your courageous faith look like
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Reminder of Psalm 23.
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Our courageous faith steps out because we know God protects his sheep always.
Congregation,
Have you ever been up to Cambellford to the suspension bridge at Ferris Park.
My family took a drive up to the park a couple of weeks ago because it sounded like a fun adventure to take the kids on.
Walk across the bridge, have some dinner in the park, and then go into to town to take some picture by the humongous toonie.
We set off down the trail together.
I had Lydia in a backpack baby carrier Ang my wife walking with me and Cory and Haley running and playing like two excited little lion cubs.
Coming up to the suspension bridge we walked along, the kids charged out on to the bridge first looking over the edge of the bridge and then through the grating down to the water 50 or 60 feet below.
I took a step onto the bridge and looked down right away the first part you are still over top of the ground that is only a couple of feet below.
Then the bridge takes you past the edge of the gorge.
My knees went all funny.
I got a little woozy.
I held on to the side rail of the bridge.
The kids are running up in front.
Jumping and playing.
My legs were turning into jello jigglers.
When it comes to heights, I am not that courageous.
No thanks.
Acrophobia.
Is what its called.
Scared of heights.
I wouldn’t say I’m that scared of being up high.
It’s more the thought of suddenly not being up high anymore.
Anyone else have that.
Acrophobia.
I wonder what the fear of following Christ would be called?
Don’t we all suffer from that in our lives?
Some of us worse than others?
Go, make disciples of all nations, or at least starting with your friends.
Wouldn’t your hands start sweating and your heart start pounding if you set out to call and invite that unbelieving friend to church sometime?
That following Christ o phobia leads us to choose the easier path.
Set your minds on things above not on earthly things.
Maybe after Grey’s Anatomy is finished.
Did you see what’s happening between Meridith and Derek?
No matter how important we know it is, we still have this evangophobia.
You won’t catch me telling people about Christ.
I suffer from openexpressionoffaithophobia.
I think I have a pretty bad case of it too.
I hope I am allowed to talk about it like that.
I also suffer from it as well.
But Scripture calls us all to something greater.
We can courageously trust that God protect us through any challenge since we belong to him.
David is an awesome guy isn’t he? He’s the guy who would eventually be the king one day.
He was the one who wrote many Psalms.
And if he was ever afraid, he really didn’t show it.
David courageously faces all sorts of danger because he trusts that God protects his people.
Don’t the stories just make you think, wow, this guy David was really something special.
I don’t know of anyone that could match his courage.
How many of you friends had the chance to go to the zoo this year?
Anyone?
Do you know what my favorite exhibit at the zoo is?
The gorillas.
They really know how to take life easy don’t they.
I am always disappointed going past the lion exhibits.
They must know I am coming or something.
I get there and they are never out.
But I have watched the discovery channel and I wouldn’t want to mess with a lion.
A bear wouldn’t be much better.
If ever I see an animal like that, I am so happy they are on the other side of the glass at the zoo.
David saw these animals right up close.
They weren’t at a zoo.
These animals were planning to make some his father’s sheep their lunch for the day.
Daivd was a young shepherd boy.
His job was to make sure the sheep found grass to eat, water to drink, and to make sure the sheep were kept out of danger.
A Lion and a Bear, I would call that danger.
But I don’t think most of us would do like David did.
I might have gone running home to momma.
Not David.
Look at the courage of just a young guy.
He tells King Saul all about the dangerous situations he’s faced.
He says it like this.
I am a shepherd and when I was watching my dad sheep a lion attacked and then a bear attacked trying to get a easy lunch of lamb.
I went after the lion and the bear.
I grabbed them by their hair and a killed them with my shepherds staff.
That is courage plain and simple.
He could have been killed by those animals.
But he wasn’t going to let his fathers sheep get killed.
Can you feel the adreneline rush that must have come on just before going in?
That’s courage.
Mark Twain said it this way.
Courage is resisting fear, mastering fear—not the absence of fear.”
That’s david.
He may have been afraid, but he mastered that fear because he judged it to be more important to save his father’s sheep than to be afraid of the lion and the bear.
That’s courage.
Perhaps in our lives we need a little more courage.
When that big encounter with the boss is coming over the way you disapprove of something.
Can you master your fear to share what’s on your mind?
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