HEROES TO BEGIN WITH

HEROES TO BEGIN WITH

Sunday, May 15, 2016

  In my opinion everyone should, after God the Father, Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, have heroes to look up to and emulate. This second essential list should be made up of Bible heroes and so as to learn from understand their character. Here are several of mine:

·         Job; maintained his integrity before God though suffering numerous calamities perpetrated by Satan and allowed by God. (Job 2:9; 13:15; 27:5-7; 31:1-40)

·         Noah; “ … being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household.” (Gen.6; Heb.11:7)

·         Rahab; a scarlet woman that understood where loyalty should be placed. (Josh.2:1-15)

·         David; boy with a righteous cause that as king self-inflicted grievously but never forgot exactly who his King is. (1Sam.17:24-51; 2Sam.12:1-14; Ps.51)

·         Abram/Abraham; a man that fully understood that it’s not where he lived that mattered but how he lived. (Too many passages to list here. Look up “Abraham”.)

·         Nehemiah; a testament of submission, courage and dedication of how to serve a king and yet fully serve the King. (Neh. Chapters 1 & 2 and more.)

·         Daniel, Meshach, Shadrach, & Abednego; men credibly serving a king while serving the King, when pressured to abandon Him they chose loyalty to the King knowing he may die. (the Book of Daniel)

·         Esther; she remaining a faithful woman of God maintaining devotion and submission to her king husband. At risk of her own physical security exercised courage that saved the Jews of Persia from genocide. (The Book of Esther)

·         John the Baptist; a man of prominence in God’s plan, but with great humility in concession when his position was done. (Jn.1:26-27; 3:22-36)

·         Peter; an irascible man that strove mightily for and accomplished temperance. (Search “peter” in all 4 gospels.)

·         Saul/Paul; a man exemplifying losing the world and gaining the utmost.

·         Thomas; a man demanding proof that when received the first of the disciples to declare Christ’s extraordinary divinity, calling him “my Lord and my God!”, and for the rest of his life vigorously acted accordingly.

·         John; “beloved” and penning his book he remarkably wrote John 1:1 & 3:16 epitomizing the Word written and Living.

·         Stephen; a godly man that understood and acted out where his true citizenship is. (Acts 6:5-15; 7:54-60)

  There are many more heroes, male and female, recorded in scripture, some of which you admire.  Please share your choices with me and I will publish in the coming week.

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