The Spirit of Might

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The Spirit of Might
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Lets Look at it right away

• Samson
• As Samson and his parents were going to Timnah, a
  young lion attacked Samson in the vineyards on
  the outskirts of the town. At that moment the
  Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him and
  since he had no weapon, he ripped the lion's jaws
  apart and did it as easily as though it were a
  young goat! But he didn't tell his father or
  mother about it.
• Judges 145-6 TLB

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Samson had the Spirit of Might

• Judges 1512-15 NASU
• They said to him, "We have come down to bind you
  so that we may give you into the hands of the
  Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to
  me that you will not kill me." So they said to
  him, "No, but we will bind you fast and give you
  into their hands yet surely we will not kill
  you."

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• Then they bound him with two new ropes and
  brought him up from the rock. When he came to
  Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him.
• And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him
  mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms
  were as flax that is burned with fire, and his
  bonds dropped from his hands. He found a fresh
  jawbone of a donkey, so he reached out and took
  it and killed a thousand men with it.

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You dont have to be a tough guy

• Judges 611-17
• Then the angel of the LORD came and sat under
  the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to
  Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating
  out wheat in the wine press in order to save it
  from the Midianites. The angel of the LORD
  appeared to him and said to him, "The LORD is
  with you, O valiant warrior."
• Then Gideon said to him, "O my lord, if the LORD
  is with us, why then has all this happened to us?
  And where are all His miracles which our fathers
  told us about, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us
  up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us
  and given us into the hand of Midian.

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• The LORD looked at him and said, " Go in this
  your strength and deliver Israel from the hand of
  Midian. Have I not sent you?
• He said to Him, "O Lord, how shall I deliver
  Israel? Behold, my family is the least in
  Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's
  house." But the LORD said to him, "Surely I will
  be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one
  man."
• So Gideon said to Him, "If now I have found favor
  in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You
  who speak with me.

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Elijah had the Spirit of Might

• 1 Kings 1841-46
• Now Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink
  for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy
  shower." So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But
  Elijah went up to the top of Carmel and he
  crouched down on the earth and put his face
  between his knees. He said to his servant, "Go
  up now, look toward the sea."
• So he went up and looked and said, "There is
  nothing." And he said, "Go back" seven times. It
  came about at the seventh time, that he said,
  "Behold, a cloud as small as a man's hand is
  coming up from the sea.

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• And he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, ' Prepare your
  chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower
  does not stop you.'" In a little while the sky
  grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a
  heavy shower. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.
  
• Then the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he
  girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel.

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What is the Spirit of Might?

• Old Testament Hebrew
• Gebuwrah - Prevailing power, force, power,
  strength, valor, victory, mastery.
• New Testament Greek
• Dunamis -Force, specifically miraculous power

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The Holy Spirit Gives Might

• Acts 18 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.

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What is the Spirit of Might?

• The Ability to perform or accomplish anything
  that God says to do!
• Michael Fisher
• I can do all things through Him who strengthens
  me.
• Philippians 413 NASU

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Are You Causing Any Trouble?

• Acts 176-7 AMP
• they dragged Jason and some of the brethren
  before the city authorities, crying, These men
  who have turned the world upside down have come
  here also, And Jason has received them to his
  house and privately protected them!
• Acts 176-7 NIV
• they dragged Jason and some other brothers
  before the city officials, shouting "These men
  who have caused trouble all over the world have
  now come here, and Jason has welcomed them into
  his house.

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This evil Song ravaged America

• I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner,
• that is what I truly want to be,
• for if I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner,
• everyone would be in love with me!

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Emasculation

• 1. To castrate, to deprive a male of certain
  parts which characterize the sex, to geld, to
  deprive of virility.
• 2. To deprive of masculine strength or vigor to
  weaken to render effeminate to vitiate by
  unmanly softness.

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Three Things Emasculate a Man

• Fear of man, of failure, of rejection, etc.
• Sensuality
• Selfishness or immaturity

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1. The Fear of Man

• The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever leans
  on, trusts in, and puts his confidence in the
  Lord is safe and set on high. Proverbs
  2925 AMP
• For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God?
  Or am I striving to please men? If I were still
  trying to please men, I would not be a
  bond-servant of Christ.
• Gal 110 NASU

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The Truth, the Whole Truth and

• For our exhortation does not come from error or
  impurity or by way of deceit but just as we
  have been approved by God to be entrusted with
  the gospel, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but
  God who examines our hearts.
• For we never came with flattering speech, as you
  know, nor with a pretext for greed-- God is
  witness-- nor did we seek glory from men, either
  from you or from others, even though as apostles
  of Christ we might have asserted our authority.
• 1 Thessalonians 23-6 NASU

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Remember the Mighty Elijah?

• 1 Kings 191-4
• Now Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done,
  and how he had killed all the prophets with the
  sword. Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah,
  saying, " So may the gods do to me and even more,
  if I do not make your life as the life of one of
  them by tomorrow about this time."

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• And he was afraid and arose and ran for his life
  and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah,
  and left his servant there.
• But he himself went a day's journey into the
  wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper
  tree and he requested for himself that he might
  die, and said, "It is enough now, O LORD, take
  my life, for I am not better than my fathers.

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Look at some more examples

• King Saul
• I Samuel 10,11,14,15
• Joshua and the 11 spies
• Numbers1325-30, 31-1412
• Joshua 24 15

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The Pharisees were Man-pleasers

• The Pharisees
• However, even many of the Jewish leaders believed
  him to be the Messiah but wouldn't admit it to
  anyone because of their fear that the Pharisees
  would excommunicate them from the synagogue for
  they loved the praise of men more than the praise
  of God. John 1242-43 TLB

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The Disciples Were God-pleasers

• Peter and John
• "What shall we do with these men?" they asked
  each otherperhaps we can stop them from
  spreading their propaganda. We'll tell them that
  if they do it again we'll really throw the book
  at them." So they called them back in, and told
  them never again to speak about Jesus. But Peter
  and John replied, "You decide whether God wants
  us to obey you instead of him! We cannot stop
  telling about the wonderful things we saw Jesus
  do and heard him say." Acts 416-20 TLB

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Are You Ready to Fight For This?

• Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be
  purchased at the price of chains slavery?
  Forbid it almighty God! I know not what course
  others may take but as for me-
• give me liberty or give me death!
• Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

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Jesus Had the Spirit of Might

• And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon
  Him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
  Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of
  knowledge and of the reverential and obedient
  fear of the Lord
• Isaiah 112 AMP

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2. Sensuality

• Devotedness to the gratification of the bodily
  appetites (sleep, food, drinking, sex)
• free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures
• Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you will die!

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What Destroyed Sodom?

• Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom
  she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant
  food and careless ease, but she did not help the
  poor and needy. "Thus they were haughty and
  committed abominations before Me. Therefore I
  removed them when I saw it.
• Ezek 1649-51 NASU

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Look at this Prophecy

• The things that will destroy America are
  prosperity at any price, peace at any price,
  safety first instead of duty first, and the love
  of soft living and the get rich quick theory of
  life.
• -Theodore Roosevelt January 10th, 1917

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Sensuality brings down the mighty!

• David/Springtime
• II Samuel 111-
• Samson
• Judges 161

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Beware the Snare

• Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a
  loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider,
  and go astray? For the ways of man are directly
  before the eyes of the Lord, and He Who would
  have us live soberly, chastely, and godly
  carefully weighs all man's goings.
• His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked man,
  and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.
  He will die for lack of discipline and
  instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he
  will go astray and be lost.
• Proverbs 520-23 AMP

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III. Selfishness or Immaturity

• When I was a child, I used to speak like a child,
  think like a child, reason like a child when I
  became a man, I did away with childish things.
• 1 Corinthians 1311 NASU

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Act Like Men!

• Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith,
• act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be
  done in love.
• 1 Corinthians 1613-14

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You Get Might from God

• Isaiah 4026-31
• Lift up your eyes on high And see who has
  created these stars, The One who leads forth
  their host by number, He calls them all by name
  Because of the greatness of His might and the
  strength of His power, Not one of them is
  missing.

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• Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,
  "My way is hidden from the LORD, And the justice
  due me escapes the notice of my God"?
• Do you not know? Have you not heard? The
  Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the
  ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired.
  His understanding is inscrutable.

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• He gives strength to the weary, And to him who
  lacks might He increases power.
• Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous
  young men stumble badly,
• Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new
  strength They will mount up with wings like
  eagles, They will run and not get tired, They
  will walk and not become weary.

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The Disciples Understood

• Acts 429-31
• "And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and
  grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word
  with all confidence, while You extend Your hand
  to heal, and signs and wonders take place through
  the name of Your holy servant Jesus."

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• And when they had prayed, the place where they
  had gathered together was shaken, and
  they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
  began to speak the word of God with boldness.

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Knowing God His WordVictory

• I have written to you, fathers, because you know
  Him who has been from the beginning. I have
  written to you, young men, because you are
  strong, and the word of God abides in you, and
  you have overcome the evil one.
• 1 John 214 NASU

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Do You Know Your God?

• the people who know their God shall prove
  themselves strong and shall stand firm and do
  exploits for God.
• Dan 1132b AMP

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