FBCJ SOLID Youth

If we participate in evangelism and miss the heart of God we will certainly burn out and quit. The gospel is the heart of God... to know the God is to know the gospel, and to know the gospel is to know God. We must really meditate on this truth if we are to be impactful ambassadors for Jesus Christ.

Your daily walk can enhance or detract from your ability to share the gospel with others. What we live out proves what we truly believe! We must consider this truth and guard our personal testimony.

We make a special announcement in this lesson and then go through our mission from the perspective of all that is going on currently at FBCJ.

After we explored God's call upon Gideon, Gideon confirming that call, God trimming down the army from 32,000 to 300, and then the execution of the God's specific battle plan, now we see Gideon continue the battle until it is finished and what happens thereafter. In the midst of warfare there are always spiritual warfare in the wings that the enemy of God uses to oppress God's people as they work out his plan for them. It can be very discouraging. We need to stay on guard and prepare ourselves and our disciples for the present and the future.

After God calls his man to deliver his people and confirms it twice, now we see Gideon get the people ready for battle... or rather, God getting the people ready for the battle. The Lord puts them in an impossible situation on purpose for a purpose!

In Judges 6 we are introduced to the situation happening in Israel. God's people are not walking with him, the Midianites are in control of the land, and the Jewish people are being severely oppressed and persecuted. Israel cries out to the Lord, and God calls Gideon to deliver them from the hand of their enemies. We live in a time very similar to the book of Judges where every man does that which is right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6). If we are to be the man/woman God desires us to be then we need to be willing to take a stand when no one else is willing to take a stand! 

The last lesson in this series covers the ark, mercy seat, and the role of the High Priest. This message ties everything together and leaves us with some good principles to direct us to appreciate our blessed Saviour and glorify God the Father.

Learning to cleave unto the Lord is one of the most critical issues of the heart that many struggling Christians fail do to on a daily basis. Cleaving to the Lord, our Saviour, will help with every single aspect of our lives. 

The last part of this series is a great one... a reminder that we are to redeem the time we are gifted to by God.

The last piece in the holy place before moving into the most holy place is the golden altar. This furnishing represents the Spirit of God and our prayers. Our prayer life must be fueled by the remembrance of the sacrifice that Christ made for us, personally. Remembering the gospel will change how we pray, down to the littlest detail. This is something we need to be exercised in to glorify the Lord.