New Beginnings

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New Beginnings

• Joshua 11-9

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New Beginnings

• Crisis of Courage

Then Caleb said, We should by all means go up
and take possession of it, for we will surely
overcome it. But the men who had gone up with
him said, We are not able to go up against the
people, for they are too strong for us. So they
gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of
the land. - Numbers 2030-32
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New Beginnings

• Crisis of Courage

And Jesus spoke to them, saying, All authority
has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go
therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the
Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe
all that I commanded you and lo, I am with you
always. - Matthew 2818-20
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New Beginnings

• Crisis of Courage

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New Beginnings

• cause for Courage
• Gods promise
• Gods Presence

The cloud covered the tabernacle and in the
evening it was like the appearance of fire, until
morning. So it was continuously the cloud would
cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by
night. - Num 915-16
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New Beginnings

• cause for Courage

I will ask the Father, and He will give you
another Helper, that He may be with you forever
that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world
cannot receive, because it does not see Him or
know Him, but you know Him because He abides with
you and will be in you. I will not leave you as
orphans I will come to you. - John
1416-18
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New Beginnings

• cause for Courage
• Gods promise
• Gods Presence
• Gods power

To all the kingdoms into which you are about to
cross Do not fear them, for the Lord your God
is the one fighting for you. - Deuteronomy
321-22
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New Beginnings

• cause for Courage

Therefore you are to be perfect, as your
heavenly Father is perfect. - Matt. 548
But the Scripture has shut up everyone under
sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ
might be given to those who believe.
- Galatians 322
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New Beginnings

• cause for Courage

So then, my beloved, just as you have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much
more in my absence, work out your salvation with
fear and trembling for it is God who is at work
in you, both to will and to work for His good
pleasure. - Philippians 212-13
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New Beginnings

• channel for Courage
• Call to obedience
• Reward of Obedience

Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due
time we will reap if we do not grow weary. -
Galatians 69
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New Beginnings

• channel for Courage

If we consider the unblushing promises of
reward and the staggering nature of the rewards
promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our
Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too
weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling
about with drink and sex and ambition
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New Beginnings

• channel for Courage

when infinite joy is offered us, like an
ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies
in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant
by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far
too easily pleased. - C.S. Lewis sermon The
Weight of Glory
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New Beginnings

• channel for Courage

So we have the prophetic word made more sure,
to which you do well to pay attention as to a
lamp shining in a dark place until the day
dawns. - 2 Peter 119
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