Are you a Wounded Warrior?

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Are you a Wounded Warrior?

• Galatians 614-17

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Wounded Warrior Project

• Support for soldiers as they try to return to
  civilian life
• More seriously wounded survive because of
  advances in treatment
• Many are wounded emotionally PTSD
• Also harmed are marriages, family, employment,
  finances and spiritual

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Paul was a wounded warrior

• We fight a spiritual war
• 2 Corinthians 103-4 3 For though we walk in the
  flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4
  For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but
  mighty in God for pulling down strongholds

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Paul was a wounded warrior

• 2 Corinthians 1123-27 23 Are they ministers of
  Christ?--I speak as a fool--I am more in labors
  more abundant, in stripes above measure, in
  prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From
  the Jews five times I received forty stripes
  minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods
  once I was stoned three times I was shipwrecked
  a night and a day I have been in the deep 26 in
  journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of
  robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in
  perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in
  perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea,
  in perils among false brethren 27 in weariness
  and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and
  thirst, in fastings often, in cold and
  nakedness--

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We might be a wounded warrior

• Galatians 614-17 14 But God forbid that I should
  boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to
  me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus
  neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails
  anything, but a new creation. 16 And as many as
  walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be
  upon them, and upon the Israel of God. 17 From
  now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my
  body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

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When Wounded - - -

• STAY FOCUSED
• Galatians 614 But God forbid that I should boast
  except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by
  whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to
  the world.
• Keep the focus on Christ, the cross, heaven
• Hebrews 122 looking unto Jesus, the author and
  finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was
  set before Him endured the cross, despising the
  shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the
  throne of God.

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When Wounded - - -

• COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
• Allow the negative to grab us and it will swallow
  us up.
• Remember to be thankful.
• Colossians 315 And let the peace of God rule in
  your hearts, to which also you were called in one
  body and be thankful.
• Colossians 317 And whatever you do in word or
  deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
  giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

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When Wounded - - -

• LOOK TO SERVE
• Paul kept on going wounded, beaten, stoned, in
  jail, run out of town, faced wild animals,
  suffered shipwreck BUT kept going.
• We must do the same.
• Jesus said, It is more blessed to give than to
  receive. (Acts 2035)
• We were created for His workmanship (Ephesians
  210)

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When Wounded - - -

• REMEMBER THE MEASURE
• God demands faithfulness
• 1 Corinthians 42 Moreover it is required in
  stewards that one be found faithful.
• There is no quota Just keep on continue in
  good works
• Not a certain number of converts just keep
  planting and watering (1 Corinthians 36)

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When Wounded - - -

• WE KNOW THE END
• No matter the pain or stress
• No matter how wounded we are
• We know the outcome is VICTORY!
• Revelation 1211 And they overcame him by the
  blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
  testimony, and they did not love their lives to
  the death.

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Are you a wounded warrior?

• ARE YOU A SOLDIER OF
• JESUS CHRIST?
• ARE YOU A
• FAITHFUL SOLDIER?
• WILL YOU SHARE IN
• THE VICTORY?