Lake Ann–Day #4 Lesson
Ken Rudolph spoke an amazing challenge at camp tonight. His passage of choice was Esther 4.
Title: Four Warning to Assure Us We Live a Truly Dangerous Life for Jesus Christ.
#1. Don’t Live for Artificial Danger (4.10-11)
- We all want to live an exciting life.
- Who, in Heaven, is going to give you a high-five for doing a daring stunts or for being an amazing athlete?
- A real man, doesn’t go off for crazy adventure but instead finds a woman who loves God, marries her, loves her and raises his children.
- Artificial danger = skateboarding, x-games, cheap thrills.
- Real danger = standing up for Christ in your school.
#2. Don’t be Replaced (4.13-14)
- Perhaps the worst feeling in Heaven is finding out God had a job for you but you were replaced because you fought against it.
- God does have a job for you, but if you aren’t willing to do it, God will replace you.
- God won’t use you if you aren’t willing to step up.
#3. Don’t Wish for Another’s Life (4.14)
- Don’t wish for someone else’s adventure–live for you own adventure.
- Don’t just sit back wishing you were someone else. Live your own life w/ the purpose God has for you.
- Stop living a fake life–Stand up and Be Real!!!
- Know why you are here–for such a time as this!
- The greatest feeling in the world is to wake up and know your life is filled with Jesus.
- Live your life to the fullest!
#4. Don’t Hold Back Anything (4.15-16)
- If I die, I die–but I WILL obey!!
- “It is not the last drop of blood that is hard for a soldier to lose. It is the first drop.” Abraham Lincoln in a response to a question about the Civil War soldiers.
- Have you spilled the first drop of blood for Jesus yet?
- Don’t hold anything back!
- How must Jesus do you have on you?
- Jump in to a dangerous live with Jesus.
God put you in this generation for such a time as this–Live & Live to the fullest!!!!
