Courageous Verses Complacent
Sermon Delivered on October 02, 2011PDF Link Outline October 02, 2011
Courageous Versus Complacent
Today's Speaker: Pastor Dan Housam
Courageous Christians follow God's. . .
Promise into the ______________
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Genesis 11:31
The LORD said to Abram: Go out from your land, your relatives, and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who treat you with contempt, and all the peoples on earth will be blessed through you. So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.
Genesis 12:1-4
Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them. Be strong and very courageous.
Joshua 1:6-7 (NIV 1984)
Power against the ___________________
Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. But the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your offspring." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:6-7
The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom should I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom should I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1
I rejoice over Your promise like one who finds vast treasure.
Psalm 119:162
Plans for the __________________
By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
Hebrews 11:8-10
They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.
Hebrews 11:13
Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12
