This is War - Paul Washer from I'll Be Honest on Vimeo.
Here's some excerpts from the sermon:
You and I are called to be controlled by one single passion: the doing of the will of God, and for a crown that does not perish. We must strive to be in the center of God's will.
...Now, another thing that He has given us-- not just one great love, not just one great passion, but He's also given us a great commission.
Men, we were not made to live like most men. We were made to fight. We were made to strive. We were made to work. We were made to conquer. We were made to give ourselves for something that is eternal.
Adam was given a command to do what? To go out and subdue-- to bring everything in creation in harmony with the will of God, to do all his governing, all his things within the context of God's will.
Now we live in a fallen world that lives in darkness and death. The kingdom of the evil one spread abroad throughout the land. You and I were not called to play video games. We were not called to sit in front of a television set. We were not called to give ourselves to trifles. We were called to advance a Kingdom, to live with a passion, to fight for Him, and to only ever once and a while to drop our swords and look up for a smile.
I want to fight! I don't want comfort! I don't want ease in Zion! Because the Kingdom of God is built not by those who rest in Zion, but by those who go out into the streets and fight. And the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They are mighty. Intercessory prayer, the proclamation of the Gospel, and sacrificial love.
Men-- rise up, oh men of God! Do what you were called to do! Be valiant and strong! And know that it's going to cost you. You take your stand next to Jesus Christ and his cause, and you watch the Devil come after you, buffeting you from the outside and from the inside. But that's what war is about.
And so He has given us a great commission... to pace a room at night saying, "There is a place, there is a place, where He is not worshiped, where He is not worshiped. There is a place where He is not worshiped. I cannot sleep, there is a place where He is not worshiped... There is a place where the flag of Zion does not fly." That's what we were made for. To set aside our little temporal causes and to give ourselves to this one great battle.
What is the most important trait in a man? Is it giftedness? Absolutely not! Some of the most gifted men in the world are self-destructive, and destroy others. What does your wife need, and what does your children need? What does the world need from you? Christ-likeness. This is what we are to strive for...
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