New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

Posted on Mon, Apr 5, 2004

Sermon April 4: Let Jesus Work It Out

Scripture:� Matthew 26:51-56

Delivered by Pastor Williams

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����������� When friends have your back up against the wall, when you�re going back and forth to school with your children, when your change is looking strange, don�t pull your hair out or lose your cool, just let God work it out.�

����������� Peter, one of the inner circle, always spoke out before he thought; he always put his foot in his mouth.� He saw Judas with the crowd, took out his sword and cut off the right ear of a man not named in Matthew but in the book of John, he is identified as Malchus.� He jumped ahead of God�s plan.� He was fighting instead of surrendering to God�s plan.�

����������� Many of us are just like Peter.� We let people somebody step on our toes or talk about us and we�re ready to rumble.� We try to fight our battles with the wrong weapons.� We fight physical battles with physical weapons.� We need to fight physical battles with spiritual weapons.�

����������� 2 Corinthians 10:3 say �For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh� and in Ephesians 6:17 �Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked�.� We must use the word of God when we have problems with our marriages, our jobs, our children, our friends, and our enemies.� Use the Word of God to fight your battles.

����������� When people come against us, it�s not them � it�s Satan in them.� We just need to let Jesus take control.� Peter cut off the man�s ear � Jesus healed it.� If Jesus had not healed it, Peter would have been crucified along with Jesus and Jesus could not let them happen.� Jesus is in total control.� How do we know?� In verse 53 did Jesus not say �Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels�.

����������� Jesus could have gotten down from the cross; He could have stopped the people from spitting on it, beating him, nailing him to the cross.� He could have stopped them at any time He wanted to.� But He didn�t.

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