Message Notes

Fighting The Battle

Galatians 4:4-5 NIV

4 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.

John 3:16 NIV

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Jeremiah 33:15-16 NIV

15 “ ‘In those days and at that timeI will make a righteous Branch sprout from David’s line;he will do what is just and right in the land. 16 In those days Judah will be savedand Jerusalem will live in safety.This is the name by which it will be called:The Lord Our Righteous Savior.’

Baruch's Struggles:

  1. Comparisons 
  2. Difficult Circumstances 
  3. Craving Comfort

Jeremiah 45:1-5 NIV

1 When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, Jeremiah said this to Baruch: 2 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says to you, Baruch: 3 You said, ‘Woe to me! The Lord has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.’ 4 But the Lord has told me to say to you, ‘This is what the Lord says: I will overthrow what I have built and uproot what I have planted, throughout the earth. 5 Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the Lord, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.’ ”

Fighting the Battle:

I. We are in a war for the souls of those we love.

You are in a spiritual war. Keep your focus on the target.

Fighting the Battle:

I. We are in a war for the souls of those we love.

II. We are seeing the disintegration of authority.

Fighting the Battle:

I. We are in a war for the souls of those we love.

II. We are seeing the disintegration of authority.

III. Don't seek great things for yourself.

The greatest rivals we face to our spiritual well-being are money and possessions.

Fighting the Battle:

I. We are in a war for the souls of those we love.

II. We are seeing the disintegration of authority.

III. Don't seek great things for yourself.

IV. Dethrone the love of money through giving.

An idea without money is wishful thinking; a vision with money is a movement.

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