September 15, 2025 • 54 mins
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Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus, we process this Christian martyr's death and outline practical ways believers must respond with both prayer and action.
• Martyrdom means witness - those who would rather die than deny Jesus
• Blood of martyrs has historically strengthened the church
• Victory comes through Christ's blood, our testimony, and not loving our lives even to death
• James instructs us to be doers of the Word, not just hearers
• Daily practices for seven battlefields: faith, family, fitness, fundamentals, finances, fellowship, fidelity
• Faith requires daily Scripture reading, prayer using ACTS method, catechism, and worship
• Family needs servant leadership, confession/forgiveness, hospitality
• All household members should have age-appropriate preparedness and self-defense skills
• Small daily disciplines and acts of kindness are what ultimately hold darkness at bay
• Every Christian must actively grow relationships and disciple others
Let us move forward with holy resolve, not answering blood with rage but with faithful witness and preparation, praying and posting a guard like Nehemiah, protecting the weak as Psalm 82 commands.
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right, hello.
And on this solemn Lord's Day,I know many of us are still
processing what happened thisweek.
I'm going to cover it in depth.
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It's what this sermon is about.
I believe that when somethingthat impacts everyone happens,
that as responsible pastors weshould drop everything we're
doing to address that, becauseit's on everyone's mind and
everyone wants to know what'sthe biblical thing to do.
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So welcome to Christian WarriorMission, home church, community
ministry and farm forgingChristian warriors for today's
challenges.
Christian Warrior Missionforges men and families into
battle-ready disciples of KingJesus, locking shields and
advancing the front on everyfront.
So Christ is honored as peopleare protected and his kingdom
surges into every sphere of life.
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Advance on every front, everyday.
No excuses, no retreats.
Some announcements I've got asad announcement for those of
you who follow our farm Dolly,our beloved pet turkey was
killed by, I think, aneighborhood dog wandered into
our yard last night and got hurtand got her.
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So you know freedom in the.
You know as it's, wrinkles,warts and bruises, and it's that
neighbors don't control theirdogs and sometimes they wander
and kill your pets or yourlivestock.
So we will miss her.
She was a special turkey.
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It's nothing compared to theloss of Charlie, of course, but
just wanted to put that outthere.
Announcements also we will behaving a Reformation Day costume
party for Halloween Halloween'son a Friday and Lauren and I
are debating do we do it on aFriday night, which is the 31st,
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which I think is when everyoneis going to be out, or do we do
it on Saturday, november 1st,which just doesn't seem right to
me because that's the day afterand it's not even in the same
month is to not let any night beclaimed by darkness, to have a
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great party of fun andfestivities with wholesome
costumes no sexy nuns, no sexydevil chicks, no monsters,
goblins, any of that stuff.
How about?
You know?
Heroes from our past, you know,and wholesome fun.
So we're going to do, you know,depending on when we have it,
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we'll have, you know, fun games.
You know bobbing for apples,you know pinatas, axe throwing,
you know all that kinds of stuff.
So, and a fire.
So again, come on down.
We're going to be servingturkeys.
We're getting ready to process10 of our turkeys and I think
we're going to use one or twojust for that event, and then
it'll be pretty much bringwhatever.
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So look for that.
It's still over a month away.
I know.
I just wanted to put it outthere Also in light of what
we're going to talk about here.
We have really bumped up sometraining events and really amped
up the intensity of the eventscoming up.
We're going to be announcingthis week Guardian Training for
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Shield Brothers and ShieldMaidens.
This week we cover combativesstriking and grappling pistol
rifle, pt fundamentals, physicalfitness fundamentals,
situational awareness, biblicalrelationships and godly
discipling All rolled up into atwo-day event.
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Okay, it might end up beingthree.
We're still working out theschedule.
That's why we haven't scheduledit yet.
All right, it'll be verysimilar to what our forging used
to be.
All right.
So we pursue the following andI'm going to go over it in depth
today Family fitness, or webelieve in the seven
battlefields, which are faith,family fitness, finances,
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fundamentals, fellowship andfidelity.
Faith fight for a relationshipwith your Lord and Savior, jesus
Christ, by studying his word,prayer and catechism.
Family fight for your family,friends, neighbors, even
strangers, by servant prayer andcatechism.
Family fight for your family,friends, neighbors, even
strangers, by servant leadership.
Fitness fight to be functional,fit to fight farm, finish the
race and glorify God with yourbody.
Finances fit to rule the warchest.
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Do not be a slave or a debt tomaterialism.
Fundamentals fight to be anasset to yourself, your family,
fellowship and communityFellowship.
Fight for godly relationships,lock shields and a warrior
fights alone.
And then fidelity fight to befaithful to both Jesus Christ
and our spouses with our minds,eyes, bodies and ears.
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Warrior Catechism.
We are on week six, so we'llrecap the first five and then
I'll repeat week six three times.
One warrior what is your life?
To glorify God, honoring andexalting in him forever.
Two warrior, whom do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
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one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
king.
Warrior who is the father, thefirst person of the Trinity, god
, my creator, redeemer,sustainer and eternal king.
Warrior who is the father, thefirst person of the Trinity,
eternal, unbegotten, infinite inwisdom, power and love, creator
of all and source of everygrace.
Four warrior who is JesusChrist?
Jesus Christ is the eternal sonof God, made flesh, a warrior
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king who conquered sin, deathand the devil and now rules at
the right hand of the father.
Warrior who is the Holy Spirit,the third person of the Trinity
, who convicts us of sin, givesus new life and empowers us for
battle and seals believers forthe day of redemption.
Now six warrior, what is yourweapon?
God's word, the sword of theSpirit, sure and true.
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Warrior, what is your weapon?
God's word, the sword of theSpirit, sure and true.
Warrior, what is your weapon?
God's word, the sword of thespirit, sure and true.
Lastly, warrior, what is yourweapon?
God's word, the sword of thespirit, sure and true.
Now, because we have a lot tocover, I'm not gonna.
I'm gonna pray us in and thenI'm not gonna teach the Lord's
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prayer this week.
I taught it last week.
We're just gonna go over it.
So let's go ahead and pray it.
In Heavenly Father, sovereignLord, I'm the church triumphant
captain of our salvation, whoconquered death on the cross and
seated us with Christ in theheavenly places.
We bow before your throne ofgrace.
Tonight.
We come as redeemed warriorswashing the blood of the Lamb,
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armored for the spiritual fraythat contends for the minds of
men and the crowns of cultures.
We praise you for the faithfulwitness of your servant, charlie
Kirk, now robed in white beforethe Lamb's throne, whose
sacrifice echoes the Savior'sown.
By the power of your indwellingspirit, kindle in us the fire
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of gospel advance.
Anchor us in the doctrines ofgrace that exalt Christ alone.
Equip us with your sword ofyour new covenant word.
Fortify our faith and open ourears to the call of the great
commission In the victoriousname of Jesus Christ, our risen
and reigning Lord, amen.
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Now, that's a pretty fancyprayer, you know.
Some may call it fancy, or somemay call it simple compared to
others.
We're going to teach you how topray tonight, which is really
important, but I'm not going todo it in the Lord's Prayer.
We're going to do it in asimple version.
Okay, but if you're looking fora great example how to pray,
you can find it in the Lord'sPrayer, matthew 6, 9 through 13,
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where the disciples asked Jesushow should we pray?
And Jesus gives an example.
So, when in doubt, trust whatJesus says.
So here's the Lord's Prayer.
Pray then in this way ourFather, who is in heaven,
hallowed be your name, yourkingdom come.
Your will be done on earth asit is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our debts,
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as we also have forgiven ourdebtors.
Do not lead us into temptation,but deliver us from the evil
one, for yours is the kingdomand the power and the glory
forever.
Amen.
So today's sermon is calledDoers of the Word in a Day of
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Blood.
Before we act, let's name themoment and define the cost of
what happened.
On December 10, 2025, on a Utahcollege campus, a gentle
Christian warrior, charlie Kirk,was assassinated while giving
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public witness To the question.
Before the one he was shot, heactually was proclaiming the
gospel of Jesus Christ anddefending it.
Gospel of Jesus Christ anddefending it.
Blood has stained our soil.
We will not euphemize evil orlook away.
A brother has been martyred.
We stand as a covenant peopleeyes open, heart, steady,
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resolved to act.
So what is a martyr?
Let's talk about that when wesay that.
That word is a very unique word.
It is the highest level ofbeliever you possibly can be.
Okay, martyr means witness.
A martyr bears witness toChrist and accepts death rather
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than denying him.
These are people who wouldrather die than deny Jesus.
Okay, we are not glorifyingmurder.
We are honoring faithfulwitness.
Precious in the sight of Yahwehis the death of his holy ones
Psalms 116, 15.
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Martyrdom is not defeat.
It is a promotion.
Be faithful until death and Iwill give you the crown of life.
Revelations 2.10.
Promotion confirmed I havefought the good fight.
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I have finished the course.
I have kept the faith in thefuture.
There is laid up for me thecrown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous judge, willaward me on that day.
2 Timothy 4, 7-8.
And Tertullian said the churchis always known.
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The blood of the martyrs is theseed of the church.
In Revelation 12, 11, 11 itsays and they overcame him.
They're talking about thedragon.
Because which is satan?
Because the blood of the lamband because the word of their
witness.
And they did not love theirlife, even to death.
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We'll unpack this quickly, justbecause most people don't know
Revelation Context.
Revelation 12 unveils thedragon's war against Christ and
his church.
A loud voice from heavenexplains how the saints actually
win.
They overcame him.
Real victory over the accuser,not mere survival.
The saints are the victors inChrist Because of the blood of
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the Lamb.
Christ's atoning blood cancelsevery charge Forgiven.
People are unblackmailable andunbreakable and because of the
word of their witness.
The church publicly confessesJesus.
Gospel testimony advances theking's reign in history.
And they did not love theirlife, even to death.
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They prized Christ abovecomfort in life itself, not a
death wish, a refusal to betraySupreme loyalty to him.
Summary our victory equalsJesus' blood on our ledger,
jesus' name on our lips andJesus' worth above our very
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lives.
So our rule of life thatCharlie lived Stand on the blood
.
Live each day out of Christ'sfinished work.
Rehearse Romans 8.1 andRevelations 12.11 in prayer,
keep a public witness, weavetestimony into ordinary life
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Neighbors, co-workers, onlinepresence with courage and
charity.
You were saved, not for you,but for someone else, and
someone else was saved thatpulled you on For you.
It's your job to turn aroundand pull the next person up on
the raft of Christ.
Charlie was doing that in thedarkest place that we have in
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this country, which is thecesspools of our universities.
Count the cost.
Train hearts to prize Christabove comfort.
God, do we need that?
We're such a spoiled,comfortable population?
Read Revelations 2.10, 2Timothy 4, 7 and 8, and
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household monthly and renew yourvow.
So here's my message to you.
Okay, I'm going to say I knewCharlie, but Charlie didn't know
me.
I'm going to explain that.
Anyone who has watched as muchCharlie Kirk as I have, as many
of you have some of you justrecently when you have somebody
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and you're listening to them onpodcasts for hours and hours and
hours and hours and days, andyou've been watching them for
years and years and years.
You know all their mannerisms.
You know when they're upset,you know when they're struggling
, you know when they're happy.
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You can see the light in themand they become familiar to you,
familiar to you.
They become friends that don'tknow they're your friends, right
, they become friends that don't.
You're not their friend becausethey don't know you, but
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they're your friend because whatthey say helps you in dark
times or answers questions foryou, and you spend so much time
with their voice in your ears orwatching them through your eyes
that it has a profound impacton you.
And it has a profound impact onyou.
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So many people, many, many, manymore people than I would have
believed, are absolutely crushedby this because of the graphic
nature in which he was takenfrom us.
I was actually talking to myfather, who refuses to watch the
footage, and I challenged himand told him he better suck it
up and watch it, because it'ssomething everyone should see,
because it's so horrible.
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We're so used to seeing shotand we're so used to seeing
movies and we're so used toseeing things where we're
sterilized from the word shot orwe watch John Wick or we watch
these things and it doesn't meananything.
Well, I'm glad to say thatwatching Charlie's life get
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taken was not sterile, was notnumbing.
It was horrifying.
I'm a former Navy SEAL, notsomebody we're talking about one
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of the nicest guys out therewho was fighting for the very
people who killed him.
To watch the graphic nature onwhich that unfolded scars your
retina.
It's there.
You can't unsee it, you know.
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I tried to equate it to JFK andhow people might watch it.
It was black and white orbarely color.
You couldn't really seeanything in HD.
This was in HD from every angle.
It was close and the sounds andeverything it was awful.
So I met him once up in Maine.
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Seemed like a nice guy, but Ispent countless hours listening
to him and he was a trustedresource for me.
The first day I was very sad,lots of tears, but I, during
times like this, or 9-11 or themarathon bombing or other ones,
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people I haven't spoken to in 20years call me.
They're looking for an answer,they need a steady hand and I
have been encouraging peoplesince this has happened, to
mourn but to take action, totake action.
So I'm done grieving, I'm donecrying and it's time to do
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something.
The question is what do we do?
Everyone wants to know what todo on how can I make a
difference?
And people have these grandideas and all these things that
will peter out like that.
My goal for today's sermon is togive you things to do every day
that will make a difference.
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So we have wept, but we do notgrieve like those, without hope.
We have prayed, we have mournedand now it is past time to act.
Lord Jesus, we receive thiswound as a summons to fidelity
to you, to courage and topreparation.
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We will not answer blood withrage, but with holy resolve.
We will pray and we will post aguard, like in Nehemiah 4.9.
We will protect the weak, as inPsalms 82.4.
And we will be doers of theword and not hearers only, as in
James.
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Amen, because a Christianwarrior has fallen.
We will not drop the banner.
Church lock shields.
Here are your orders for today.
I'm going to be in 1st James andI'm going to jump around a
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little bit in it, but let usstart at verse 2 through 4.
Consider it all.
Joy, my brothers, when youencounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of yourfaith brings about perseverance
.
And let perseverance have itsperfect work so that you may be
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perfect and complete, lacking innothing.
Dropping down to verse 12.
Blessed is a man who perseveresunder trial.
For once he has been approved.
He will receive the crown oflife which the Lord has promised
to those who love him.
Forging crown Trials are theforge where God tempers his
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people.
Perseverance matures us to lackin nothing.
The finish line is not meresurvival, but a crown of life
promised to those who love him.
Joy in trials is not denial ofthe struggle, it is trust in the
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outcome and the awarder.
Dropping down to James 19through 26, some of my favorite
words in the Bible Know this, mybeloved brothers.
But everyone must be quick tohear, slow to speak and slow to
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anger, for the anger of man doesnot achieve the righteousness
of God.
Therefore, laying aside allfilthiness and all that remains
of wickedness and gentleness,receive the implanted word which
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is able to save your souls, butbecome doers of the word and
not merely hearers who deludethemselves.
For if anyone is a hearer ofthe word and not merely hearers
who delude themselves, for ifanyone is a hearer of the word
and not a doer, he is like a manwho looks at his natural face
in the mirror.
And once he looked at himselfand he has gone away, he
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immediately forgot what kind ofperson he was, but one who looks
intently at the perfect law,the law of freedom, and abides
by it.
Not having become forgetfulhearer but a doer of the work.
This man will be blessed inwhat he does.
And in verse 26,.
If anyone thinks himself to bereligious, while not bridling
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his tongue but deceiving his ownheart, this man's religion is
worthless.
Pure and undefiled religionbefore our God and Father is
this to visit orphans and widowsin their affliction and to keep
oneself unstained by the world.
Some of the hardest words inthe Bible Be doers of the word.
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Doers the word is a mirror.
Hearers who do not act forgetwho they are.
Doers look intently, continueand are blessed in their doing.
In a day of blood.
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This means training, orderinghouseholds, protecting the weak
and public witness, not justnodding along to another sermon.
The man who wrote those wordsnot the part I just added on
there was James the Just, whowas martyred himself in 62 AD.
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Who was he?
He was called James the Just.
He was Jesus' brother, a pillarof the Jerusalem church
renowned for his righteousnessand prayer.
He was a good man, a great man.
Why he matters.
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He wrote James 1.
Trials equals perseverance,equals maturity, equals crown of
life.
And then sealed that exactteaching with his own blood.
He believed it unto death.
Martyrdom Ancient sourcesreported that hostile leaders
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condemned him.
Josephus notes he was stoned byan unlawful Sanhedrin.
Notes he was stoned by anunlawful Sanhedrin.
And Gassipis, if I said thatright adds.
He was thrown to the temple,from the temple and beaten with
a club while praying for hiskillers.
Either way faithful unto death,james preached joyful endurance
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in doing and then died doing Apattern for Christian warriors.
Today, charlie Kirk did muchthe same.
Some quotes on James the Just.
His knees became like a camel.
Those of you who don't knowcamels have to kneel for people
to get on them, so they developbig calluses on their knees.
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His knees became like a camel'sbecause he was always kneeling
and praying for the people.
They cast him down, they beganto stone him, a fuller struck
his head with a club and so hesuffered martyrdom.
Warriors, this is not a memorialbut a muster.
We will grieve and we will act.
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Heavenly Father, lord of hosts,turn sorrow into steadfastness.
Give us strong hands, clearheads and courageous hearts.
Amen.
I want to frame four quickverses for you here, what we're
going to get into.
Nehemiah 4.9,.
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But we prayed to our God andbecause of them we set up a
guard against them day and night.
Proverbs 24.11-12,.
Deliver those who are beingtaken away to death.
Revelation 12.11,.
They overcame him with theblood of the Lamb and by the
word of their witness In Psalm110.1-3,.
Christ reigns now.
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His people volunteer in the dayof his power.
Jrr Tolkien said I have foundthat it is the small, everyday
deeds of ordinary folk that keepthe darkness at bay, small acts
of kindness and love.
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That's why he chose hobbits tobe the hero of Lord of the Rings
.
Gandalf said that that it's thesmall deeds that we do, that
echo for eternity, that holdeverything at bay the smile, the
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laugh, the kind word, the kinddeed, the service.
That's what keeps massive evilin check.
It can't stomach it.
And william woodsworth, a poetfrom the with the 1800s 9, 17,
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1800s put the best portion of agood man's life his little,
nameless, unremembered acts ofkindness and love.
When people ask me what theyneed to do, how should they move
on?
The answer is simple Do thenext right thing.
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Some of the stuff I'm going tosay today is review, but I am
going to go into a lot of detailOn what you should be doing
every day.
You can't do them all every day, but you should do most of them
every day.
You want to do something rightnow.
You feel sick to your stomach.
You want to do something.
You have to get yourself rightand then your family right first
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, before you go charging off andtrying to tell other people how
to do stuff.
Get yourself right and yourfamily right first.
So let's start with faith.
Daily scripture reading withcomprehension.
Read the Bible every day andanswer three questions what does
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it say, what does it mean andhow do I apply it to my slash,
our lives?
If you don't do that, you'rewasting your time.
If you don't do that, you'rewasting your time.
If you're just running yourfinger over words and you're not
thinking about it and you'renot trying to see what does God
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want you to do with this and tryto discern, you're wasting your
time.
Daily prayer daily prayer wehave to.
Prayer was the thing that cameto me the hardest morning and
evening prayers.
I'm going to teach you how topray today using acts adoration,
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confession, thanksgiving,supplication.
I'll unpack that in a moment.
If you're just praying foryourself, you're doing it wrong.
It's called intercessory prayer.
When you're praying for someoneelse and those are the most
powerful prayers you have,because you're not getting
anything from them.
It's not your Christmas list.
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You're praying for people whoare suffering, people who you
love, and you're praying thingsthat are aligned to the kingdom.
It's not, oh, let Jason getthat new Ferrari.
It's let Jason be able to payhis mortgage.
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Keep an intercessory roster ofyour family, church, civil
leaders, even enemies that youpray for.
Aim for 10 to 20 minutes.
Here's one that I'm going toask you to do with me Fast for
24 hours on Wednesdays with me,make your last meal dinner on
Tuesday night, and then youwon't eat again until Friday.
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I'm sorry, friday.
Holy smokes Wednesday night,and that's the day when we ask
for all of our big stuff andwe're fasting and we're putting
that horsepower behind it.
So we'll put it out what we'repraying for.
We ask you to join us for ournation, for big things, for our
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church, for others, not wantsand comforts.
Daily Catechism.
You should learn Catechism aweek, as I've been talking about
now for beyond six weeks knowwhat you believe and be able to
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defend it.
That's what Charlie did.
Every day, all day, dailyworship, singing and listening
doesn't have to be a song or ahymn.
Put on some Christian music.
It'll lighten your mood and itwill bring you closer to him.
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Instead of singing about sex,drugs and rock and roll and
depression, why not sing aboutGod, his glory, love, kindness.
Why not sing about God, hisglory, love, kindness?
What we watch and what welisten to is what we are.
Think about that.
What you watch and what youlisten to is what you are.
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That's where your heart is.
If it's filth, then you'renothing but filth.
Get a nice, curated playlist.
You know that when you're introuble, when you're struggling
with sin, that's what you put on.
That's what lifts you up.
We got those songs and do theLord's Day worship, which is
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Sunday's worship here for us,and communion, which we will do.
So how do we pray?
Okay, this is a guide on how topray.
A, the synonym or acronym,whatever acronym is, acts, a
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adoration.
Begin by praising who God is,his attributes and works, not
what you need.
Example Yahweh, you are holy,just, merciful and faithful.
Your steadfast love enduresforever.
Okay, you can also read orparaphrase from Psalms if you
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want, or you can just tell himhow great he is.
Adoration, you're adoring him.
Confession Agree with God aboutspecific sins, thought, thoughts
, words, deeds, sins of omission.
Commission name them plainly.
Ask for cleansing in Christ,receive assurance.
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Parents, we must model thiswith brevity and honesty for our
children.
Then, after we've confessed, wegive thanks.
Name concrete graces in thelast 24 hours Answer prayers,
people protection, lessonslearned and daily bread.
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Gratitude trains the heart forcourage and, lastly,
supplication.
This is when we are doingintervening for someone else.
Ask boldly for kingdom firstneeds, holiness, wisdom,
protection, provision, justice,conversions.
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Pray through your intercessoryroster family by name elders,
pastors, classmates, coworkers,missionaries, civil leaders, the
persecuted and enemies.
Now, that sounds like a lot,but sometimes it can be done in
60 seconds.
Ready, one sentence means God,you are awesome.
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I confess my anger.
Thank you for the check thatcame in the mail the other day
that we weren't expecting.
Please help my mother and herstruggles.
In Jesus' name, amen, done.
Okay.
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So it sounds like a lot, butonce you get it down, you'll be
fine.
As somebody who struggled withprayer, the most struggles with
prayer, the most struggles withprayer, the most I need it
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spelled out for me.
So maybe that'll help you.
I hope it does.
Households, fathers and motherslead, others rotate.
You can allow the children toadd supplications.
Adorations close with theLord's prayer.
Keep a small prayer andaccessory roster.
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So you're like, oh man, allthese people who told me asked
me to pray for them and trust me, I get a lot of them and I
don't remember them.
And sometimes I pray all theones and, like Lord, you know
who needs my prayers.
You know who asked me forprayers.
Please, your will be done.
One way to do intercessionprayers for others is on Monday
do your household.
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Tuesday church leaders andmembers.
Wednesday missionaries and thepersecuted.
Thursday civil leaders andlocal officials.
Fridays enemies for repentanceand restraint.
Saturday neighbors andpractical needs.
Sunday worship and revival.
A fasting note again Tuesdaydinner through Wednesday dinner
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is a 24-hour fast day that wepair with prayer, repentance,
boldness and protection.
Keep it simple Water and coffeeplus scripture.
Battlefield 2, family, biblicallove and servant leadership.
The home is Christ's firstacademy.
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Love leads by serving anddisciples by example.
Servant leadership.
Fathers and mothers lead withsacrifice, repentance and
blessing.
Dads go first in the confessionof sin.
Mom models wisdom and dignity.
Schedule a one-on-one Weeklyshepherd.
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Talk with your children, witheach child, to listen, instruct,
pray and encourage.
Household order of love.
Post on a board the one anotherrule.
Love one another, honor, bearburdens, forgive, encourage,
speak truth and love.
Show hospitality, betenderhearted, be patient,
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submit appropriately.
You are family, act like it.
Confession and forgiveness.
Here's a script.
Mom, I sinned against you, willyou forgive me?
My mom, hopefully, will say Iforgive you.
Or I sinned against you bybeing grouchy with you.
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Will you forgive me, I forgiveyou.
Model that with your children.
When you're short with them andyou're grumpy or you lose your
temper or you thought they didsomething they didn't, model
that Hospitality and service,monthly service.
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Host another family or lonelysaint at your table You're
eating anyways.
Invite more people into yourhouse.
Show them how you live andlonely saints God knows there's
so many lonely saints like us.
We're all lonely in our own way.
Invite them over.
Sometimes you're going to haveto drag them down a hill, a hill
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that's 30 feet away.
Anyways, marriage husband andwives must come first.
It comes before children.
Do date nights at least twotimes a month.
Father and mother must model agodly love to set the standard
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of what your children will goafter.
Father, your daughter is goingto want a version of you.
What you model is who she'sgoing to choose.
Your sons are going to wonderhow to treat their mother and
they're going to go aftersomeone like their mom.
That's the way it works.
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Model a love and a passion anda commitment to one another that
they will set the bar very high.
We must lead by example, andfrom the front.
Remember parents, grandparents,aunts and uncles.
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When you have those children,you are their guardian and their
discipler, not their friend.
You are not peers, you aretheir guardian.
You have to be their wisdombecause they don't have any yet.
Have to be their wisdom becausethey don't have any yet.
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Battlefield three fitnessSteward your body for service.
Do cardio three times a week.
Strength three times a week.
Minimum Daily mobility.
Sleep seven to eight hours andget simple nutrition.
Okay.
Train as a family when possible.
Train skills that improveexplosive strength, endurance,
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mobility, flexibility andstretch.
Teach your children how to swim.
If your kid doesn't know how toswim, you're failing as a
parent.
Period, the world is mainlywater, okay, so get on it.
Do family hikes, walks and bikerides.
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Eat as a healthy family.
Teach that treats and sweetsshould be a rare thing.
Teach hydration and moderationOkay.
Set them off on a solidfoundation.
Make your love language actuallanguage and not food, or else
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you're going to have a wholefamily that looks to food for
comfort instead of conversation.
God connection Okay.
The fourth battlefield,fundamental skill hardening
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preparedness.
Every person in the houseshould be able to defend
themselves.
For their age, that changesdrastically from 13 to 70, but a
70 year old can have a homeinvader just the same as a 13
year old who's home and the doorgets kicked in.
Everyone should know what to doand everyone should be able to
act now if a two-year-old isvery different than a
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13-year-old and a 25-year-old isvery different than a
70-year-old.
But everyone should havesomething and should be prepared
.
There's countless videos onlineand countless examples in the
news of people of a queen'shouse and tortured.
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Two 70-something-year-old whitegrandparents Couldn't just kill
them, had to torture them too.
Right, it just happened.
Self-defense skills are a must,everything from striking
footwork and advanced throughgrappling and BJJ.
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Everyone should have situationalawareness and active planning
skills.
Situational awareness is beingaware of what's going on around
you and not just your immediateenvironment, like the 15 feet in
front of you, but down the road, as well as news, local,
national, global, activeplanning.
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Is what you do with what yousee in your current state?
Do you have a bad knee and abad back and a bad hip and your
only plan was to run away?
And now you can't run away.
What is your plan if someonebreaks into your house?
Do you have one?
You better?
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This also is particularly ifyou have young children or
children period.
Know the sex offenders in yourarea.
We have a binder with sexoffenders here.
It was right by the front door.
I don't know where it happened,where it happened to go, but I
look on it monthly and your kidsshould know that you don't talk
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to people, that these people,for any reason, do not bubble
wrap your kids Train everyone inthe house for age appropriate
non-lethal self-defense itemslike pepper spray, tasers,
firearms, knives, everything yougot.
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Everyone in the house, ageappropriate, should know first
aid and how to stop bleeding.
It's not just putting your handover it, although that does
work most of the time, buteveryone should know how to stop
the bleed.
Finances.
Give to God your first fruits.
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If you're not giving anythingto God and you're wondering why
your life sucks and you'restruggling financially, it's
because you're not givinganything to God.
I don't care where you give it.
I ain't asking for it.
I'm just telling you.
If you're wondering why you'renot being blessed, it's because
you're spending it on all thiscrap and not on God.
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Oh sorry, here we go.
Build a patronage list when youspend your money.
Money is bullets.
Spend your money with companiesthat share your world view and
don't spend money With peoplewho hate you Starbucks, target,
etc.
Sell everything you do not useBattlefield 6 fellowship.
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We only have one more afterthis.
Sell everything you do not useBattlefield 6 fellowship.
We only got one more after this.
We must grow our fellowship withgodly shield brothers and
shield men.
Pursue godly relationships,even though they are a lot of
hard work.
Going and making friends isuncomfortable.
It is hard.
It takes away from our comfort.
We don't want to leave ourcouch, our work chair, our comfy
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little.
Whatever schedule, you have toalways be growing your
fellowship, always.
You're not meant to be alone.
Always be working on pullingsomebody onto the life raft of
Christ.
Do hard things with fellowChristians together and you will
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develop relationships that youdreamed about Battlefield 7.
Fidelity.
Stop supporting your enemiesand the enemies of your Lord and
Savior with your eyeballs andears.
Enemies and the enemies of yourLord and Savior with your
eyeballs and ears.
Stop wasting your God-giventime on entertainment.
There are souls to save andlives to save and a world to
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conquer.
Don't waste it.
I wasted so many years of mylife.
We must stop wasting our livesand start getting after
something that matters Helpingpeople.
So we're now going to docommunion.
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Before I get into communion,it's the little things that will
change you.
It's the little things thatwill change your family.
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It's the little things that'llchange your family.
It's the little things that'llsave the world.
Get the little things right andthen you can do bigger things
and bigger things and biggerthings.
But if you don't get the littlethings right, you won't go
anywhere and God will not blessit.
1 Corinthians 11, 28.
But a man must test himself andin doing so, eat of the bread
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and drink of the cup.
Before we partake, let usquietly bow before the King of
glory.
Let each man, woman and youngwarrior here search his or her
heart, confess sin, laying downburdens, preparing to eat and
drink in a manner worthy of theLord.
Go ahead.
Thank you, almighty God,sovereign Lord and host.
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We approach your table nottoday, not because we are worthy
, but because Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of JesusChrist alone.
Remember his body broken, hisblood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude, welift our hearts in reverent awe.
Sanctify this bread in this cupand sanctify us, your people,
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as we proclaim the death,resurrection and the coming
kingdom of our lord jesus christ.
We pray in his mighty andmatchless name amen.
First corinthians 11, 23 through24.
The lord jesus, the night inwhich he was betrayed, took
bread and when he had giventhanks, he broke it and said
this is my body, which is foryou.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
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sacrificed for you.
Let us partake of this breadtogether to remember Christ's
body broken for us.
Go ahead and eat In the sameway.
He took the cup Also aftersupper, saying this is the cup
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and the new covenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkin remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisblood, the blood that purchased
our forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether to remember Christ's
blood poured out for us.
For as often as you eat of thisbread and drink the cup, you
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proclaim the death of the Lorduntil he comes.
By this eating and drinking, wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died.
Christ has risen.
Christ will come again.
Captain of our salvation, lordJesus Christ, you are seated at
the Father's right hand and yourscepter stretches from Zion.
Today we have wept and now werise.
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Take our grief and forge itinto steadfastness.
Make us doers of the word andnot hearers.
Only by the blood of the Lamband the word of our witness
teach us not to love our liveseven unto death, but to love
your name above all.
Order our lives across theseven battlefield.
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Faith establish in usunbreakable habits of scripture,
with understanding, dailyprayer, catechism and worship.
Family shape us into servantleaders.
Let our tables be altars ofgratitude and our homes
academies of courage and love.
Let this grant bodies fit forservice, hands ready for work,
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endurance to carry the woundedand the weary.
Fundamentals teach our hands tobind wounds, our aim to be
accurate and our minds to stayawake.
Make us strong, courageous,wise, lawful and humble as we
pray and post a guard Finances.
Turn our spending into strategy.
Free us from waste.
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Move our treasure toward yourmission and your people
Fellowship.
Lock our shields.
Give us faithful brothers andsisters.
Make our church a strong,welcoming sanctuary and fidelity
.
Purify our hearts, our tongues.
Keep us from compromise.
Make us bold and bright inpublic witness.
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We renounce fear, apathy,vengeance.
Give us holy resolve,lion-hearted courage and
shepherd-hearted compassion.
Set us like Nehemiah's builders, a trowel in one hand and a
sword in the other, until everygood work is finished.
Crown faithful witness in ourday.
Let the blood of the martyrs beseen in us all.
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Send us now steadfast,unmovable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, for noneof it is in vain in you.
For the Kirk family, lord, weask you that you pour your love
and your peace upon them, in thename of Jesus Christ, our
warrior king.
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Amen.
God bless you all and I willsee you tomorrow morning for
Bible study.
Bye.
All right, hello.
And on this solemn Lord's Day,I know many of us are still
processing what happened thisweek.
I'm going to cover it in depth.
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It's what this sermon is about.
I believe that when somethingthat impacts everyone happens,
that as responsible pastors weshould drop everything we're
doing to address that, becauseit's on everyone's mind and
everyone wants to know what'sthe biblical thing to do.
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So welcome to Christian WarriorMission, home church, community
ministry and farm forgingChristian warriors for today's
challenges.
Christian Warrior Missionforges men and families into
battle-ready disciples of KingJesus, locking shields and
advancing the front on everyfront.
So Christ is honored as peopleare protected and his kingdom
surges into every sphere of life.
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Advance on every front, everyday.
No excuses, no retreats.
Some announcements I've got asad announcement for those of
you who follow our farm Dolly,our beloved pet turkey was
killed by, I think, aneighborhood dog wandered into
our yard last night and got hurtand got her.
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So you know freedom in the.
You know as it's, wrinkles,warts and bruises, and it's that
neighbors don't control theirdogs and sometimes they wander
and kill your pets or yourlivestock.
So we will miss her.
She was a special turkey.
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It's nothing compared to theloss of Charlie, of course, but
just wanted to put that outthere.
Announcements also we will behaving a Reformation Day costume
party for Halloween Halloween'son a Friday and Lauren and I
are debating do we do it on aFriday night, which is the 31st,
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which I think is when everyoneis going to be out, or do we do
it on Saturday, november 1st,which just doesn't seem right to
me because that's the day afterand it's not even in the same
month is to not let any night beclaimed by darkness, to have a
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great party of fun andfestivities with wholesome
costumes no sexy nuns, no sexydevil chicks, no monsters,
goblins, any of that stuff.
How about?
You know?
Heroes from our past, you know,and wholesome fun.
So we're going to do, you know,depending on when we have it,
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we'll have, you know, fun games.
You know bobbing for apples,you know pinatas, axe throwing,
you know all that kinds of stuff.
So, and a fire.
So again, come on down.
We're going to be servingturkeys.
We're getting ready to process10 of our turkeys and I think
we're going to use one or twojust for that event, and then
it'll be pretty much bringwhatever.
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So look for that.
It's still over a month away.
I know.
I just wanted to put it outthere Also in light of what
we're going to talk about here.
We have really bumped up sometraining events and really amped
up the intensity of the eventscoming up.
We're going to be announcingthis week Guardian Training for
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Shield Brothers and ShieldMaidens.
This week we cover combativesstriking and grappling pistol
rifle, pt fundamentals, physicalfitness fundamentals,
situational awareness, biblicalrelationships and godly
discipling All rolled up into atwo-day event.
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Okay, it might end up beingthree.
We're still working out theschedule.
That's why we haven't scheduledit yet.
All right, it'll be verysimilar to what our forging used
to be.
All right.
So we pursue the following andI'm going to go over it in depth
today Family fitness, or webelieve in the seven
battlefields, which are faith,family fitness, finances,
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fundamentals, fellowship andfidelity.
Faith fight for a relationshipwith your Lord and Savior, jesus
Christ, by studying his word,prayer and catechism.
Family fight for your family,friends, neighbors, even
strangers, by servant prayer andcatechism.
Family fight for your family,friends, neighbors, even
strangers, by servant leadership.
Fitness fight to be functional,fit to fight farm, finish the
race and glorify God with yourbody.
Finances fit to rule the warchest.
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Do not be a slave or a debt tomaterialism.
Fundamentals fight to be anasset to yourself, your family,
fellowship and communityFellowship.
Fight for godly relationships,lock shields and a warrior
fights alone.
And then fidelity fight to befaithful to both Jesus Christ
and our spouses with our minds,eyes, bodies and ears.
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Warrior Catechism.
We are on week six, so we'llrecap the first five and then
I'll repeat week six three times.
One warrior what is your life?
To glorify God, honoring andexalting in him forever.
Two warrior, whom do you serve?
I serve the Lord of hosts,father, son and Holy Spirit, the
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one true God, my creator,redeemer, sustainer and eternal
king.
Warrior who is the father, thefirst person of the Trinity, god
, my creator, redeemer,sustainer and eternal king.
Warrior who is the father, thefirst person of the Trinity,
eternal, unbegotten, infinite inwisdom, power and love, creator
of all and source of everygrace.
Four warrior who is JesusChrist?
Jesus Christ is the eternal sonof God, made flesh, a warrior
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king who conquered sin, deathand the devil and now rules at
the right hand of the father.
Warrior who is the Holy Spirit,the third person of the Trinity
, who convicts us of sin, givesus new life and empowers us for
battle and seals believers forthe day of redemption.
Now six warrior, what is yourweapon?
God's word, the sword of theSpirit, sure and true.
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Warrior, what is your weapon?
God's word, the sword of theSpirit, sure and true.
Warrior, what is your weapon?
God's word, the sword of thespirit, sure and true.
Lastly, warrior, what is yourweapon?
God's word, the sword of thespirit, sure and true.
Now, because we have a lot tocover, I'm not gonna.
I'm gonna pray us in and thenI'm not gonna teach the Lord's
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prayer this week.
I taught it last week.
We're just gonna go over it.
So let's go ahead and pray it.
In Heavenly Father, sovereignLord, I'm the church triumphant
captain of our salvation, whoconquered death on the cross and
seated us with Christ in theheavenly places.
We bow before your throne ofgrace.
Tonight.
We come as redeemed warriorswashing the blood of the Lamb,
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armored for the spiritual fraythat contends for the minds of
men and the crowns of cultures.
We praise you for the faithfulwitness of your servant, charlie
Kirk, now robed in white beforethe Lamb's throne, whose
sacrifice echoes the Savior'sown.
By the power of your indwellingspirit, kindle in us the fire
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of gospel advance.
Anchor us in the doctrines ofgrace that exalt Christ alone.
Equip us with your sword ofyour new covenant word.
Fortify our faith and open ourears to the call of the great
commission In the victoriousname of Jesus Christ, our risen
and reigning Lord, amen.
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Now, that's a pretty fancyprayer, you know.
Some may call it fancy, or somemay call it simple compared to
others.
We're going to teach you how topray tonight, which is really
important, but I'm not going todo it in the Lord's Prayer.
We're going to do it in asimple version.
Okay, but if you're looking fora great example how to pray,
you can find it in the Lord'sPrayer, matthew 6, 9 through 13,
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where the disciples asked Jesushow should we pray?
And Jesus gives an example.
So, when in doubt, trust whatJesus says.
So here's the Lord's Prayer.
Pray then in this way ourFather, who is in heaven,
hallowed be your name, yourkingdom come.
Your will be done on earth asit is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread and forgive us our debts,
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as we also have forgiven ourdebtors.
Do not lead us into temptation,but deliver us from the evil
one, for yours is the kingdomand the power and the glory
forever.
Amen.
So today's sermon is calledDoers of the Word in a Day of
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Blood.
Before we act, let's name themoment and define the cost of
what happened.
On December 10, 2025, on a Utahcollege campus, a gentle
Christian warrior, charlie Kirk,was assassinated while giving
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public witness To the question.
Before the one he was shot, heactually was proclaiming the
gospel of Jesus Christ anddefending it.
Gospel of Jesus Christ anddefending it.
Blood has stained our soil.
We will not euphemize evil orlook away.
A brother has been martyred.
We stand as a covenant peopleeyes open, heart, steady,
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resolved to act.
So what is a martyr?
Let's talk about that when wesay that.
That word is a very unique word.
It is the highest level ofbeliever you possibly can be.
Okay, martyr means witness.
A martyr bears witness toChrist and accepts death rather
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than denying him.
These are people who wouldrather die than deny Jesus.
Okay, we are not glorifyingmurder.
We are honoring faithfulwitness.
Precious in the sight of Yahwehis the death of his holy ones
Psalms 116, 15.
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Martyrdom is not defeat.
It is a promotion.
Be faithful until death and Iwill give you the crown of life.
Revelations 2.10.
Promotion confirmed I havefought the good fight.
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I have finished the course.
I have kept the faith in thefuture.
There is laid up for me thecrown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous judge, willaward me on that day.
2 Timothy 4, 7-8.
And Tertullian said the churchis always known.
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The blood of the martyrs is theseed of the church.
In Revelation 12, 11, 11 itsays and they overcame him.
They're talking about thedragon.
Because which is satan?
Because the blood of the lamband because the word of their
witness.
And they did not love theirlife, even to death.
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We'll unpack this quickly, justbecause most people don't know
Revelation Context.
Revelation 12 unveils thedragon's war against Christ and
his church.
A loud voice from heavenexplains how the saints actually
win.
They overcame him.
Real victory over the accuser,not mere survival.
The saints are the victors inChrist Because of the blood of
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the Lamb.
Christ's atoning blood cancelsevery charge Forgiven.
People are unblackmailable andunbreakable and because of the
word of their witness.
The church publicly confessesJesus.
Gospel testimony advances theking's reign in history.
And they did not love theirlife, even to death.
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They prized Christ abovecomfort in life itself, not a
death wish, a refusal to betraySupreme loyalty to him.
Summary our victory equalsJesus' blood on our ledger,
jesus' name on our lips andJesus' worth above our very
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lives.
So our rule of life thatCharlie lived Stand on the blood
.
Live each day out of Christ'sfinished work.
Rehearse Romans 8.1 andRevelations 12.11 in prayer,
keep a public witness, weavetestimony into ordinary life
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Neighbors, co-workers, onlinepresence with courage and
charity.
You were saved, not for you,but for someone else, and
someone else was saved thatpulled you on For you.
It's your job to turn aroundand pull the next person up on
the raft of Christ.
Charlie was doing that in thedarkest place that we have in
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this country, which is thecesspools of our universities.
Count the cost.
Train hearts to prize Christabove comfort.
God, do we need that?
We're such a spoiled,comfortable population?
Read Revelations 2.10, 2Timothy 4, 7 and 8, and
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household monthly and renew yourvow.
So here's my message to you.
Okay, I'm going to say I knewCharlie, but Charlie didn't know
me.
I'm going to explain that.
Anyone who has watched as muchCharlie Kirk as I have, as many
of you have some of you justrecently when you have somebody
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and you're listening to them onpodcasts for hours and hours and
hours and hours and days, andyou've been watching them for
years and years and years.
You know all their mannerisms.
You know when they're upset,you know when they're struggling
, you know when they're happy.
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You can see the light in themand they become familiar to you,
familiar to you.
They become friends that don'tknow they're your friends, right
, they become friends that don't.
You're not their friend becausethey don't know you, but
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they're your friend because whatthey say helps you in dark
times or answers questions foryou, and you spend so much time
with their voice in your ears orwatching them through your eyes
that it has a profound impacton you.
And it has a profound impact onyou.
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So many people, many, many, manymore people than I would have
believed, are absolutely crushedby this because of the graphic
nature in which he was takenfrom us.
I was actually talking to myfather, who refuses to watch the
footage, and I challenged himand told him he better suck it
up and watch it, because it'ssomething everyone should see,
because it's so horrible.
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We're so used to seeing shotand we're so used to seeing
movies and we're so used toseeing things where we're
sterilized from the word shot orwe watch John Wick or we watch
these things and it doesn't meananything.
Well, I'm glad to say thatwatching Charlie's life get
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taken was not sterile, was notnumbing.
It was horrifying.
I'm a former Navy SEAL, notsomebody we're talking about one
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of the nicest guys out therewho was fighting for the very
people who killed him.
To watch the graphic nature onwhich that unfolded scars your
retina.
It's there.
You can't unsee it, you know.
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I tried to equate it to JFK andhow people might watch it.
It was black and white orbarely color.
You couldn't really seeanything in HD.
This was in HD from every angle.
It was close and the sounds andeverything it was awful.
So I met him once up in Maine.
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Seemed like a nice guy, but Ispent countless hours listening
to him and he was a trustedresource for me.
The first day I was very sad,lots of tears, but I, during
times like this, or 9-11 or themarathon bombing or other ones,
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people I haven't spoken to in 20years call me.
They're looking for an answer,they need a steady hand and I
have been encouraging peoplesince this has happened, to
mourn but to take action, totake action.
So I'm done grieving, I'm donecrying and it's time to do
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something.
The question is what do we do?
Everyone wants to know what todo on how can I make a
difference?
And people have these grandideas and all these things that
will peter out like that.
My goal for today's sermon is togive you things to do every day
that will make a difference.
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So we have wept, but we do notgrieve like those, without hope.
We have prayed, we have mournedand now it is past time to act.
Lord Jesus, we receive thiswound as a summons to fidelity
to you, to courage and topreparation.
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We will not answer blood withrage, but with holy resolve.
We will pray and we will post aguard, like in Nehemiah 4.9.
We will protect the weak, as inPsalms 82.4.
And we will be doers of theword and not hearers only, as in
James.
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Amen, because a Christianwarrior has fallen.
We will not drop the banner.
Church lock shields.
Here are your orders for today.
I'm going to be in 1st James andI'm going to jump around a
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little bit in it, but let usstart at verse 2 through 4.
Consider it all.
Joy, my brothers, when youencounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of yourfaith brings about perseverance
.
And let perseverance have itsperfect work so that you may be
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perfect and complete, lacking innothing.
Dropping down to verse 12.
Blessed is a man who perseveresunder trial.
For once he has been approved.
He will receive the crown oflife which the Lord has promised
to those who love him.
Forging crown Trials are theforge where God tempers his
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people.
Perseverance matures us to lackin nothing.
The finish line is not meresurvival, but a crown of life
promised to those who love him.
Joy in trials is not denial ofthe struggle, it is trust in the
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outcome and the awarder.
Dropping down to James 19through 26, some of my favorite
words in the Bible Know this, mybeloved brothers.
But everyone must be quick tohear, slow to speak and slow to
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anger, for the anger of man doesnot achieve the righteousness
of God.
Therefore, laying aside allfilthiness and all that remains
of wickedness and gentleness,receive the implanted word which
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is able to save your souls, butbecome doers of the word and
not merely hearers who deludethemselves.
For if anyone is a hearer ofthe word and not merely hearers
who delude themselves, for ifanyone is a hearer of the word
and not a doer, he is like a manwho looks at his natural face
in the mirror.
And once he looked at himselfand he has gone away, he
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immediately forgot what kind ofperson he was, but one who looks
intently at the perfect law,the law of freedom, and abides
by it.
Not having become forgetfulhearer but a doer of the work.
This man will be blessed inwhat he does.
And in verse 26,.
If anyone thinks himself to bereligious, while not bridling
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his tongue but deceiving his ownheart, this man's religion is
worthless.
Pure and undefiled religionbefore our God and Father is
this to visit orphans and widowsin their affliction and to keep
oneself unstained by the world.
Some of the hardest words inthe Bible Be doers of the word.
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Doers the word is a mirror.
Hearers who do not act forgetwho they are.
Doers look intently, continueand are blessed in their doing.
In a day of blood.
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This means training, orderinghouseholds, protecting the weak
and public witness, not justnodding along to another sermon.
The man who wrote those wordsnot the part I just added on
there was James the Just, whowas martyred himself in 62 AD.
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Who was he?
He was called James the Just.
He was Jesus' brother, a pillarof the Jerusalem church
renowned for his righteousnessand prayer.
He was a good man, a great man.
Why he matters.
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He wrote James 1.
Trials equals perseverance,equals maturity, equals crown of
life.
And then sealed that exactteaching with his own blood.
He believed it unto death.
Martyrdom Ancient sourcesreported that hostile leaders
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condemned him.
Josephus notes he was stoned byan unlawful Sanhedrin.
Notes he was stoned by anunlawful Sanhedrin.
And Gassipis, if I said thatright adds.
He was thrown to the temple,from the temple and beaten with
a club while praying for hiskillers.
Either way faithful unto death,james preached joyful endurance
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in doing and then died doing Apattern for Christian warriors.
Today, charlie Kirk did muchthe same.
Some quotes on James the Just.
His knees became like a camel.
Those of you who don't knowcamels have to kneel for people
to get on them, so they developbig calluses on their knees.
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His knees became like a camel'sbecause he was always kneeling
and praying for the people.
They cast him down, they beganto stone him, a fuller struck
his head with a club and so hesuffered martyrdom.
Warriors, this is not a memorialbut a muster.
We will grieve and we will act.
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Heavenly Father, lord of hosts,turn sorrow into steadfastness.
Give us strong hands, clearheads and courageous hearts.
Amen.
I want to frame four quickverses for you here, what we're
going to get into.
Nehemiah 4.9,.
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But we prayed to our God andbecause of them we set up a
guard against them day and night.
Proverbs 24.11-12,.
Deliver those who are beingtaken away to death.
Revelation 12.11,.
They overcame him with theblood of the Lamb and by the
word of their witness In Psalm110.1-3,.
Christ reigns now.
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His people volunteer in the dayof his power.
Jrr Tolkien said I have foundthat it is the small, everyday
deeds of ordinary folk that keepthe darkness at bay, small acts
of kindness and love.
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That's why he chose hobbits tobe the hero of Lord of the Rings
.
Gandalf said that that it's thesmall deeds that we do, that
echo for eternity, that holdeverything at bay the smile, the
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laugh, the kind word, the kinddeed, the service.
That's what keeps massive evilin check.
It can't stomach it.
And william woodsworth, a poetfrom the with the 1800s 9, 17,
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1800s put the best portion of agood man's life his little,
nameless, unremembered acts ofkindness and love.
When people ask me what theyneed to do, how should they move
on?
The answer is simple Do thenext right thing.
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Some of the stuff I'm going tosay today is review, but I am
going to go into a lot of detailOn what you should be doing
every day.
You can't do them all every day, but you should do most of them
every day.
You want to do something rightnow.
You feel sick to your stomach.
You want to do something.
You have to get yourself rightand then your family right first
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, before you go charging off andtrying to tell other people how
to do stuff.
Get yourself right and yourfamily right first.
So let's start with faith.
Daily scripture reading withcomprehension.
Read the Bible every day andanswer three questions what does
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it say, what does it mean andhow do I apply it to my slash,
our lives?
If you don't do that, you'rewasting your time.
If you don't do that, you'rewasting your time.
If you're just running yourfinger over words and you're not
thinking about it and you'renot trying to see what does God
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want you to do with this and tryto discern, you're wasting your
time.
Daily prayer daily prayer wehave to.
Prayer was the thing that cameto me the hardest morning and
evening prayers.
I'm going to teach you how topray today using acts adoration,
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confession, thanksgiving,supplication.
I'll unpack that in a moment.
If you're just praying foryourself, you're doing it wrong.
It's called intercessory prayer.
When you're praying for someoneelse and those are the most
powerful prayers you have,because you're not getting
anything from them.
It's not your Christmas list.
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You're praying for people whoare suffering, people who you
love, and you're praying thingsthat are aligned to the kingdom.
It's not, oh, let Jason getthat new Ferrari.
It's let Jason be able to payhis mortgage.
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Keep an intercessory roster ofyour family, church, civil
leaders, even enemies that youpray for.
Aim for 10 to 20 minutes.
Here's one that I'm going toask you to do with me Fast for
24 hours on Wednesdays with me,make your last meal dinner on
Tuesday night, and then youwon't eat again until Friday.
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I'm sorry, friday.
Holy smokes Wednesday night,and that's the day when we ask
for all of our big stuff andwe're fasting and we're putting
that horsepower behind it.
So we'll put it out what we'repraying for.
We ask you to join us for ournation, for big things, for our
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church, for others, not wantsand comforts.
Daily Catechism.
You should learn Catechism aweek, as I've been talking about
now for beyond six weeks knowwhat you believe and be able to
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defend it.
That's what Charlie did.
Every day, all day, dailyworship, singing and listening
doesn't have to be a song or ahymn.
Put on some Christian music.
It'll lighten your mood and itwill bring you closer to him.
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Instead of singing about sex,drugs and rock and roll and
depression, why not sing aboutGod, his glory, love, kindness.
Why not sing about God, hisglory, love, kindness?
What we watch and what welisten to is what we are.
Think about that.
What you watch and what youlisten to is what you are.
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That's where your heart is.
If it's filth, then you'renothing but filth.
Get a nice, curated playlist.
You know that when you're introuble, when you're struggling
with sin, that's what you put on.
That's what lifts you up.
We got those songs and do theLord's Day worship, which is
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Sunday's worship here for us,and communion, which we will do.
So how do we pray?
Okay, this is a guide on how topray.
A, the synonym or acronym,whatever acronym is, acts, a
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adoration.
Begin by praising who God is,his attributes and works, not
what you need.
Example Yahweh, you are holy,just, merciful and faithful.
Your steadfast love enduresforever.
Okay, you can also read orparaphrase from Psalms if you
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want, or you can just tell himhow great he is.
Adoration, you're adoring him.
Confession Agree with God aboutspecific sins, thought, thoughts
, words, deeds, sins of omission.
Commission name them plainly.
Ask for cleansing in Christ,receive assurance.
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Parents, we must model thiswith brevity and honesty for our
children.
Then, after we've confessed, wegive thanks.
Name concrete graces in thelast 24 hours Answer prayers,
people protection, lessonslearned and daily bread.
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Gratitude trains the heart forcourage and, lastly,
supplication.
This is when we are doingintervening for someone else.
Ask boldly for kingdom firstneeds, holiness, wisdom,
protection, provision, justice,conversions.
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Pray through your intercessoryroster family by name elders,
pastors, classmates, coworkers,missionaries, civil leaders, the
persecuted and enemies.
Now, that sounds like a lot,but sometimes it can be done in
60 seconds.
Ready, one sentence means God,you are awesome.
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I confess my anger.
Thank you for the check thatcame in the mail the other day
that we weren't expecting.
Please help my mother and herstruggles.
In Jesus' name, amen, done.
Okay.
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So it sounds like a lot, butonce you get it down, you'll be
fine.
As somebody who struggled withprayer, the most struggles with
prayer, the most struggles withprayer, the most I need it
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spelled out for me.
So maybe that'll help you.
I hope it does.
Households, fathers and motherslead, others rotate.
You can allow the children toadd supplications.
Adorations close with theLord's prayer.
Keep a small prayer andaccessory roster.
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So you're like, oh man, allthese people who told me asked
me to pray for them and trust me, I get a lot of them and I
don't remember them.
And sometimes I pray all theones and, like Lord, you know
who needs my prayers.
You know who asked me forprayers.
Please, your will be done.
One way to do intercessionprayers for others is on Monday
do your household.
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Tuesday church leaders andmembers.
Wednesday missionaries and thepersecuted.
Thursday civil leaders andlocal officials.
Fridays enemies for repentanceand restraint.
Saturday neighbors andpractical needs.
Sunday worship and revival.
A fasting note again Tuesdaydinner through Wednesday dinner
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is a 24-hour fast day that wepair with prayer, repentance,
boldness and protection.
Keep it simple Water and coffeeplus scripture.
Battlefield 2, family, biblicallove and servant leadership.
The home is Christ's firstacademy.
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Love leads by serving anddisciples by example.
Servant leadership.
Fathers and mothers lead withsacrifice, repentance and
blessing.
Dads go first in the confessionof sin.
Mom models wisdom and dignity.
Schedule a one-on-one Weeklyshepherd.
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Talk with your children, witheach child, to listen, instruct,
pray and encourage.
Household order of love.
Post on a board the one anotherrule.
Love one another, honor, bearburdens, forgive, encourage,
speak truth and love.
Show hospitality, betenderhearted, be patient,
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submit appropriately.
You are family, act like it.
Confession and forgiveness.
Here's a script.
Mom, I sinned against you, willyou forgive me?
My mom, hopefully, will say Iforgive you.
Or I sinned against you bybeing grouchy with you.
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Will you forgive me, I forgiveyou.
Model that with your children.
When you're short with them andyou're grumpy or you lose your
temper or you thought they didsomething they didn't, model
that Hospitality and service,monthly service.
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Host another family or lonelysaint at your table You're
eating anyways.
Invite more people into yourhouse.
Show them how you live andlonely saints God knows there's
so many lonely saints like us.
We're all lonely in our own way.
Invite them over.
Sometimes you're going to haveto drag them down a hill, a hill
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that's 30 feet away.
Anyways, marriage husband andwives must come first.
It comes before children.
Do date nights at least twotimes a month.
Father and mother must model agodly love to set the standard
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of what your children will goafter.
Father, your daughter is goingto want a version of you.
What you model is who she'sgoing to choose.
Your sons are going to wonderhow to treat their mother and
they're going to go aftersomeone like their mom.
That's the way it works.
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Model a love and a passion anda commitment to one another that
they will set the bar very high.
We must lead by example, andfrom the front.
Remember parents, grandparents,aunts and uncles.
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When you have those children,you are their guardian and their
discipler, not their friend.
You are not peers, you aretheir guardian.
You have to be their wisdombecause they don't have any yet.
Have to be their wisdom becausethey don't have any yet.
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Battlefield three fitnessSteward your body for service.
Do cardio three times a week.
Strength three times a week.
Minimum Daily mobility.
Sleep seven to eight hours andget simple nutrition.
Okay.
Train as a family when possible.
Train skills that improveexplosive strength, endurance,
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mobility, flexibility andstretch.
Teach your children how to swim.
If your kid doesn't know how toswim, you're failing as a
parent.
Period, the world is mainlywater, okay, so get on it.
Do family hikes, walks and bikerides.
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Eat as a healthy family.
Teach that treats and sweetsshould be a rare thing.
Teach hydration and moderationOkay.
Set them off on a solidfoundation.
Make your love language actuallanguage and not food, or else
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you're going to have a wholefamily that looks to food for
comfort instead of conversation.
God connection Okay.
The fourth battlefield,fundamental skill hardening
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preparedness.
Every person in the houseshould be able to defend
themselves.
For their age, that changesdrastically from 13 to 70, but a
70 year old can have a homeinvader just the same as a 13
year old who's home and the doorgets kicked in.
Everyone should know what to doand everyone should be able to
act now if a two-year-old isvery different than a
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13-year-old and a 25-year-old isvery different than a
70-year-old.
But everyone should havesomething and should be prepared
.
There's countless videos onlineand countless examples in the
news of people of a queen'shouse and tortured.
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Two 70-something-year-old whitegrandparents Couldn't just kill
them, had to torture them too.
Right, it just happened.
Self-defense skills are a must,everything from striking
footwork and advanced throughgrappling and BJJ.
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Everyone should have situationalawareness and active planning
skills.
Situational awareness is beingaware of what's going on around
you and not just your immediateenvironment, like the 15 feet in
front of you, but down the road, as well as news, local,
national, global, activeplanning.
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Is what you do with what yousee in your current state?
Do you have a bad knee and abad back and a bad hip and your
only plan was to run away?
And now you can't run away.
What is your plan if someonebreaks into your house?
Do you have one?
You better?
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This also is particularly ifyou have young children or
children period.
Know the sex offenders in yourarea.
We have a binder with sexoffenders here.
It was right by the front door.
I don't know where it happened,where it happened to go, but I
look on it monthly and your kidsshould know that you don't talk
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to people, that these people,for any reason, do not bubble
wrap your kids Train everyone inthe house for age appropriate
non-lethal self-defense itemslike pepper spray, tasers,
firearms, knives, everything yougot.
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Everyone in the house, ageappropriate, should know first
aid and how to stop bleeding.
It's not just putting your handover it, although that does
work most of the time, buteveryone should know how to stop
the bleed.
Finances.
Give to God your first fruits.
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If you're not giving anythingto God and you're wondering why
your life sucks and you'restruggling financially, it's
because you're not givinganything to God.
I don't care where you give it.
I ain't asking for it.
I'm just telling you.
If you're wondering why you'renot being blessed, it's because
you're spending it on all thiscrap and not on God.
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Oh sorry, here we go.
Build a patronage list when youspend your money.
Money is bullets.
Spend your money with companiesthat share your world view and
don't spend money With peoplewho hate you Starbucks, target,
etc.
Sell everything you do not useBattlefield 6 fellowship.
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We only have one more afterthis.
Sell everything you do not useBattlefield 6 fellowship.
We only got one more after this.
We must grow our fellowship withgodly shield brothers and
shield men.
Pursue godly relationships,even though they are a lot of
hard work.
Going and making friends isuncomfortable.
It is hard.
It takes away from our comfort.
We don't want to leave ourcouch, our work chair, our comfy
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little.
Whatever schedule, you have toalways be growing your
fellowship, always.
You're not meant to be alone.
Always be working on pullingsomebody onto the life raft of
Christ.
Do hard things with fellowChristians together and you will
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develop relationships that youdreamed about Battlefield 7.
Fidelity.
Stop supporting your enemiesand the enemies of your Lord and
Savior with your eyeballs andears.
Enemies and the enemies of yourLord and Savior with your
eyeballs and ears.
Stop wasting your God-giventime on entertainment.
There are souls to save andlives to save and a world to
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conquer.
Don't waste it.
I wasted so many years of mylife.
We must stop wasting our livesand start getting after
something that matters Helpingpeople.
So we're now going to docommunion.
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Before I get into communion,it's the little things that will
change you.
It's the little things thatwill change your family.
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It's the little things that'llchange your family.
It's the little things that'llsave the world.
Get the little things right andthen you can do bigger things
and bigger things and biggerthings.
But if you don't get the littlethings right, you won't go
anywhere and God will not blessit.
1 Corinthians 11, 28.
But a man must test himself andin doing so, eat of the bread
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and drink of the cup.
Before we partake, let usquietly bow before the King of
glory.
Let each man, woman and youngwarrior here search his or her
heart, confess sin, laying downburdens, preparing to eat and
drink in a manner worthy of theLord.
Go ahead.
Thank you, almighty God,sovereign Lord and host.
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We approach your table nottoday, not because we are worthy
, but because Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but clinging to
the righteousness of JesusChrist alone.
Remember his body broken, hisblood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude, welift our hearts in reverent awe.
Sanctify this bread in this cupand sanctify us, your people,
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as we proclaim the death,resurrection and the coming
kingdom of our lord jesus christ.
We pray in his mighty andmatchless name amen.
First corinthians 11, 23 through24.
The lord jesus, the night inwhich he was betrayed, took
bread and when he had giventhanks, he broke it and said
this is my body, which is foryou.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisbody, pierced, beaten and
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sacrificed for you.
Let us partake of this breadtogether to remember Christ's
body broken for us.
Go ahead and eat In the sameway.
He took the cup Also aftersupper, saying this is the cup
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and the new covenant in my blood.
Do this as often as you drinkin remembrance of me.
Remember this symbolizes hisblood, the blood that purchased
our forgiveness and sealed theeverlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether to remember Christ's
blood poured out for us.
For as often as you eat of thisbread and drink the cup, you
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proclaim the death of the Lorduntil he comes.
By this eating and drinking, wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died.
Christ has risen.
Christ will come again.
Captain of our salvation, lordJesus Christ, you are seated at
the Father's right hand and yourscepter stretches from Zion.
Today we have wept and now werise.
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Take our grief and forge itinto steadfastness.
Make us doers of the word andnot hearers.
Only by the blood of the Lamband the word of our witness
teach us not to love our liveseven unto death, but to love
your name above all.
Order our lives across theseven battlefield.
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Faith establish in usunbreakable habits of scripture,
with understanding, dailyprayer, catechism and worship.
Family shape us into servantleaders.
Let our tables be altars ofgratitude and our homes
academies of courage and love.
Let this grant bodies fit forservice, hands ready for work,
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endurance to carry the woundedand the weary.
Fundamentals teach our hands tobind wounds, our aim to be
accurate and our minds to stayawake.
Make us strong, courageous,wise, lawful and humble as we
pray and post a guard Finances.
Turn our spending into strategy.
Free us from waste.
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Move our treasure toward yourmission and your people
Fellowship.
Lock our shields.
Give us faithful brothers andsisters.
Make our church a strong,welcoming sanctuary and fidelity
.
Purify our hearts, our tongues.
Keep us from compromise.
Make us bold and bright inpublic witness.
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We renounce fear, apathy,vengeance.
Give us holy resolve,lion-hearted courage and
shepherd-hearted compassion.
Set us like Nehemiah's builders, a trowel in one hand and a
sword in the other, until everygood work is finished.
Crown faithful witness in ourday.
Let the blood of the martyrs beseen in us all.
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Send us now steadfast,unmovable, always abounding in
the work of the Lord, for noneof it is in vain in you.
For the Kirk family, lord, weask you that you pour your love
and your peace upon them, in thename of Jesus Christ, our
warrior king.
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Amen.
God bless you all and I willsee you tomorrow morning for
Bible study.
Bye.
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