Security
Ever since 9/11 security is on our minds in every way imaginable
Homeland Security
- Is to protect the United States from hazards, both internal and external, natural and man-made. To prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur"
- Made up of the National Guard, the FEMA, the Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Secret Service, and the Transportation Security Administration, Department of Defense and Department of Health and Human Services
- Today the U.S. threat level is High, or Orange, for all domestic and international flights.
- All Americans should continue to be vigilant, take notice of their surroundings, and report suspicious items or activities to local authorities immediately.
Since then security is a hot button issue.
- Companies scramble to protect it
- Criminals scramble to violate it
- Consumers panic over it.
- Protection comes in various shapes and designs.
- It comes in the form of policy, software, hardware, government law
We Build Home Security
- Cameras,
- Alarms
- Motion detectors
- Security lights
- Smoke & heat detectors
We Get Personal Security
- Stun guns
- Tasers
- Pepper spray
- Mace
- Body Armor
- Scientists have developed a high-tech jacket that
can deliver an electric shock of up to 80,000 volts to protect women from potential assailants.
We Worry About Economic Security
- Housing market
- Gas prices
- Jobs
- Social Security
We Struggle With Emotional Security
- Relationships
- Health
- Old age
- Bad news
- Future
- What goes on; on the inside will come out to the outside
- My thinking impacts my life
The Downward Spiral of Negative Thinking
1. There is something wrong with me.
2. Everything I do goes wrong
3. Life is hopeless; there is no escape
One of Two Actions
- Believe that there is no way out and that I am on
my own
- We can take control of our thoughts through Him
that loves us
- We need to rid ourselves of destructive thinking
Every computer has an "Escape" or "Remove" or "Delete" key. That’s what Christ can do for our life: It wipes out and removes all the years of doubt, fear, unbelief & distorted thinking
- All of this is sin
Romans 8:33
> KJV 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.
> New Century Version
33 Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one, because God is the One who makes them right.
> New Living Translation
33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself.
> The Living Bible
33Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has forgiven us and given us right standing with himself.
> Good News Translation
33Who will accuse God’s chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty!
> J B Phillips
Who would dare to accuse us, whom God has chosen? The judge himself has declared us free from sin
> The Message
And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen?
KNOW THAT:
❶. I AM PROTECTED - “Lay anything to the charge”
Jeremiah 29:11-13KJV
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
Lamentations 3:21-22KJV
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Lamentations 3:21-22 GNT
21 Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing The Lord’s unfailing love and mercy still continue
Two Things To Remembeer
1. Realize that I am at war
2. My thinking will be attacked
Saddam Hussein
- Killed tens of thousands of people and tortured his
enemies
- He had 20 palaces before 1991 and built 48 more at
a cost of approximately $2.2 billion.
- Rumsfeld “Here was a man who was photographed
hundreds of times shooting off rifles and showing how tough he was, and in fact, he wasn’t very tough, he was cowering in a hole in the ground, and had a pistol and didn’t use it and certainly did not put up any fight at all,"
About 600 soldiers on Sat Dec.13, 2003 conducted
a raid in Ad Dawr, near a group of ramshackle buildings.
- They found Saddam hiding in a 6-to-8 foot deep
hole, equipped with a basic ventilation system and covered with bricks and dirt.
- Satan the Accuser of the brethren
Revelation 12:10KJV
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Job
- Satan; - Take his possessions 1:9-11
- Touch his skin - 2:4-6
Jesus
Matthew 12:10KJV
10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Luke 23:2KJV
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
Matthew 27:37KJV
37 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
2 Corinthians 10:4-5KJV
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
No Condemnation
Romans 8:1KJV
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
❷. I AM CHOSEN “God’s elect” — Proof Christ died for me
Romans 5:6 KJV
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
ELECT - Eklektos, “the elect,” is from ek, “out,”
- And from lego, “to choose.”
- ELECT - To Choose Out Of
Forrest Gump:
- My momma always said, "Life was like a box of
chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get."
- Forest looks over the chocolates they all look so
good but he wants the best
- He not crazy about the ones that have nuts
- Forest dose not like the hard caramel ones as they
get stuck in his teeth
- So hard to choose the right ones
- Hey Forest don’t you have the lid?
- Each chocolate has it’s position located and it’s
description given
- We have the Lid - The Word of God
- With the Word becoming flesh we know which is the best without question
- 1 Jn 4:19 We love him because He first loved us
❸. I AM LIBERATED
- SET FREE “It is God that justifieth”
- JUSTIFICATION – JUSTIFY etc.
- Occur in the bible about 750x
- Often expressed as righteous (make right)
- Judicial term — PIX
- "The act of pronouncing righteous, acquittal;"
- ACQUITTAL - It is a judgment, by a judge, that a
defendant is not guilty of a crime as charged
— I cast myself upon the mercy of Him that justifieth when I deserve only condemnation.
- “It is God that justifieth” — He sacrificed his only
Son
- Romans 4:5KJV
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
1 Corinthians 6:11KJV
11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
- There is a sign posted at a service station perched
on the edge of the Mojave (moo’h ’v ) Desert.
- It proclaims the startlingly simple message of
— "Stop here, or Else!" —
- It is, of course, a great marketing tool. Because
everyone stops - even those with full tanks of gas and empty bladders.
- Everyone knows that what lies ahead is dangerous
and uncertain
- They trust the sign’s warning and stop.
- Few are foolish enough to barrel by a sign so
brazen in its message.
- Don’t be foolish with your life
- Dangerous & Uncertainties lie ahead
- Rom. 8:33 tells us "Stop Here, or Else!
-Secure Christ as your Savior & Lord
Revelation 21:6KJV
6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
