SERIES:  “This Is That”  SERMON #4:   “You’re The Hero”

SERIES:  “This Is That”  SERMON #4:   “You’re The Hero”

Acts 2:16 “But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;”

(NLT) “No, what you see was predicted long ago by the prophet Joel:”

Acts 10:38  “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.”

Luke 23:5 (The Message) “But they were vehement. ‘He’s stirring up unrest among the people with his teaching, disturbing the peace everywhere, starting in Galilee and now all through Judea. He’s a dangerous man, endangering the peace.’”

1 John 2:20, 27 “But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.”

(AMP) “But as for you, the anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides [permanently] in you;”

We are anointed! 

The world needs what is in us to get upon us so that they can see the evidence of the superior kingdom that we operate in.  The anointing is how we establish the flora of heaven on earth.

“They thought they got an experience. They kept trying to get another experience like that one … it was Someone – a Divine Personality – who came to live in them. He is a Heavenly Being: the Holy Spirit”   Kenneth Hagin

Acts 1:8 (AMP)  “But you shall receive power (ability, efficiency, and might) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be My witnesses in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria and to the ends (the very bounds) of the earth.”

Revelation 1:5 “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

Revelation 3:11 “Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown.”

The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God. Satan never knows from what direction he will come.    A. W. Tozer

Sense knowledge has gained supremacy over Christianity and dominates it. Civilization has failed because the type of Christianity we have given it has failed. It was a sense-ruled type that was stripped of miracles.    E. W. Kenyon

Daniel 11:32  “…but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” 

Exploit:– An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one. (American Heritage Doictionary)

Psalm 16:3  NLT “The godly people in the land are my true heroes! I take pleasure in them!” 

PICTURE OF MY BATMAN SUIT

Judges 13:5 “For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”

Judges 14:3-4 “And Samson said to his father, ;Get her for me, for she pleases me well.’ But his father and mother did not know that it was of the Lord—that He was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.”

Judges 16:1-3 (NIV) “Then he got up and took hold of the doors of the city gate, together with the two posts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He lifted them to his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that faces Hebron.”  (40mi)

PICTURE OF MUSCULAR SAMSOM … Picture of what he probably looked like.

Judges 15:14-15 “Then the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him; … He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and killed a thousand men with it.”

Judges 16:20 “And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” So he awoke from his sleep, and said, “I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free!” But he did not know that the Lord had departed from him.”

Judges 16:30 “Then Samson said, ‘Let me die with the Philistines!’ And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.”

Hebrrews 11:32-34 “ and Samson … who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.”

Hebrews 11:40 (AMP) “Because God had us in mind and had something better and greater in view for us, so that they [these heroes and heroines of faith] should not come to perfection apart from us [before we could join them].”     

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”  Bob Dylan

“The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.”   Henry Millar 

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”  

                 Benjamin Disraeli

Philippians 4:13 (AMP) “I can do all things [which He has called me to do] through Him who strengthens and empowers me [to fulfill His purpose—I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency; I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him who infuses me with inner strength and confident peace.]”

1 John 4:4 (NLT) “But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.”

Mark 16:15  “And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.’”