Highlands Fellowship
August 15, 2021
FIGHTING FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. Genesis 3:15
“…he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. Malachi 2:15
After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, "Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes." Nehemiah 4:14
FOUR PRINCIPLES AS WE FIGHT
WINNING FRIENDSHIPS
Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm. Proverbs 13:20
Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. Psalm 92:12 - 15
GOD PURPOSED DESIGN
From one man (Adam) he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. Acts 17:26 - 28
God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. Proverbs 17:27
PUT OTHERS FIRST
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of others. Philippians 2 :3 - 4
“Only a life lived for others is a life worth living.” - Albert Einstein
GENUINE FAITH
“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.” Matthew 15:8 - 9
Christianity is all about a relationship.