Today is the day we are to remember our soldiers past and present who have fought a noble cause.
But today I ask you to consider another kind of soldier---the soldier of the cross—those past and present who have fought the good fight and have endeavored to endure to the end for even a more noble cause—the cause of Christ.
Think for a moment of soldiers of the past.
The Apostle James the first of our fallen brethren—He was a son of Thunder, and the first to fall in the field of battle.
Think of Paul who was many times a prisoner of war, and Peter, and the famous death of Stephen.
Fast forward to more faithful soldiers: Peter Waldo, Jan Huss, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, John Bunyan and many more who died defending the cross. To liberate their brethren from the Man of Sin.
We have not yet resisted unto blood.
Lace your sandals , don your armour and grab your sword because the battle is coming and it is time to get ready.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 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 is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb 12:1,2)
But today I ask you to consider another kind of soldier---the soldier of the cross—those past and present who have fought the good fight and have endeavored to endure to the end for even a more noble cause—the cause of Christ.
Think for a moment of soldiers of the past.
The Apostle James the first of our fallen brethren—He was a son of Thunder, and the first to fall in the field of battle.
Think of Paul who was many times a prisoner of war, and Peter, and the famous death of Stephen.
Fast forward to more faithful soldiers: Peter Waldo, Jan Huss, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, John Bunyan and many more who died defending the cross. To liberate their brethren from the Man of Sin.
We have not yet resisted unto blood.
Lace your sandals , don your armour and grab your sword because the battle is coming and it is time to get ready.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 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 is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb 12:1,2)
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