The Snare Of The Fowler

This speaks of how some animals are paralyzed by fear with a lions roar. Most of the time he jumps out of the bushes while you are eating lunch. Who expects an attack at lunch time?

6. The trapper has no joy unless he bags a prey and is willing to go to great lengths and make great sacrifices to get his prey.

Financial

physical

time sacrifices are irrelevant to the fowler.

Real fishermen will endure almost anything.

Fishermen get excited about nibbles. They learn to adapt.

7. The trapper's goal is to kill his prey.

The prey's goal may be the simply eating of corn. Your goal doesn't really matter.

8. The trapper almost always gets his prey, in his preys environment.

Hunters go to the woods. They don't get the prey to come to the suburb.

Men don't fall into sin in Las Vegas, they fall into in in their own back yard.

Lust when it is conceived, gives birth to sin.

Conception is that which is without joining with that which is within, and growing.

You won't sin in Vegas unless you opened your heart to it in Michigan.

II. The deliverance from.

PPT 9(Text and fire rescue professional)

Ps 91:3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.

a. From:

God's people sometimes get caught.

God delivers all who call.

Surely is a powerful word.

No trap is God proof. He is better at rescuing than the devil is at trapping. There is no addiction that is God proof, there is no pit that hell can put a man in that God can't still deliver Him out of.

How?

1. The taste of the cage.

Ever seen a trapped animal squirm. He'll never go back there again.

Some learn from pain. Sometimes God lets us do some cage time, so that we will learn to avoid the enemies traps in the future.

2. By providence.

If this would have happened to me last week I wouldn't have been able to deal with it. Only eternity will tell of the land mines God kept us from.

3. By the help and work of the Holy Spirit.

God gives strength to turn from.

God gives conviction of a things wrongness and we turn away from it, before it gets us.

4. By the love of God.

The fowler wants to kill, Jesus wants to save.

The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy, but I am come that you might have live and more abundantly. Jesus is a better hunter than the devil.

The fowler puts his traps in your path, God puts His word in your path.

Close: Surely He

Invisible protection from invisible dangers.

Guaranteed help from a faithful guarantor.

Wisdom to meet cunning.

An iron clad promise that shatters an iron fisted grip.

Pray for protection and deliverance from the fowler.