GODLY MEN

Say to the nations far and wide: “Get ready for war! Call out your

! Let all your fighting men advance for the attack! Beat your plowshares into

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and your pruning hooks into

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. Train even your weaklings to be warriors. Come quickly, all you nations everywhere! Gather together in the valley.” And now,

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!
Joel 3:9-11 NLT

 15 Even if you had ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. 
I Corinthians 4:15 NIV

                THE MAN AND HIS CAUSE

THE “MAN” WHO ABANDONS
HIS CAUSE BECOMES

.

.

(Eve) also

some to (Adam) who was

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, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:6b

The warriors of Ephraim, though

, turned their backs and fled when the day of battle came.
Psalms 78:9 NLT

THE “MAN” PURSUING HIS CAUSE BECOMES CONSUMED WITH

.

“

turn my Father’s house into a market!”  His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.”  
John 2:16-17

THE PASSIONATE FATHER GIVES THREE THINGS…

IDENTITY

17And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “

My beloved

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, in whom I am well pleased.”
Matthew 3:17 (NKJV)

17And along with the Spirit, a voice: “This is my

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,

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and

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by my love, delight of my life.”
Matthew 3:17 (TMSG)

SECURITY

“…

of them. Remember the

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, who is great and awesome, and

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for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.”
Nehemiah 4:14

18No, I will not abandon you as

—I will come to you. 
John 14:18 (NLT)

PURPOSE.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could ever give another person…He believed in me
-Jim Valvano

From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been

advancing, and

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men lay hold of it.
Matthew 11:12

Then the men of Israel retreated, but (David)

and struck down the Philistines till his hand grew tired and

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to the

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. The LORD brought about a great victory that day…
2 Samuel 23:9b-10