Embracing Your Gift
Growing Together Week #4
Embracing Your Gift
Judges 3:12-30
- Christianity is more than _________________
a ___________________,
it’s a ________________ that we need to _____________ - If your life is _________________, ___________________
or __________________, it’s not because you ______________________
Jesus to that __________
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. -Ephesians 2:10
Four questions we need to ask ourselves to grow into who God has called us to be:
1. What _________________ me?
Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and because they did this evil the Lord gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel. 13 Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms. 14 The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years. 15 Again the Israelites cried out to the Lord, and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. -Judges 3:12-15
2. How am I _________________?
Now Ehud had made a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long, which he strapped to his right thigh under his clothing. Judges 3:16
Four Passages Regarding Spiritual Gifts:
- 1 Corinthians 12; Romans 12:6-8; Ephesians 4:1-16; 1Peter 4:10-11
3. What _____________________ are in front of me?
He presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 18 After Ehud had presented the tribute, he sent on their way those who had carried it. 19 But on reaching the stone images near Gilgal he himself went back to Eglon and said, “Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you.” The king said to his attendants, “Leave us!” And they all left. 20 Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace and said, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose from his seat, –Judges 3:17-20
4. Am I willing to take a __________?
Ehud reached with his left hand, drew the sword from his right thigh and plunged it into the king’s belly. 22 Even the handle sank in after the blade, and his bowels discharged. Ehud did not pull the sword out, and the fat closed in over it. 23 Then Ehud went out to the porch; he shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them. 24 After he had gone, the servants came and found the doors of the upper room locked. They said, “He must be relieving himself in the inner room of the palace.” 25 They waited to the point of embarrassment, but when he did not open the doors of the room, they took a key and unlocked them. There they saw their lord fallen to the floor, dead. 26 While they waited, Ehud got away. He passed by the stone images and escaped to Seirah. 27 When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them. 28 “Follow me,” he ordered, “for the Lord has given Moab, your enemy, into your hands.” So they followed him down and took possession of the fords of the Jordan that led to Moab; they allowed no one to cross over. –Judges 3:21-28
- Many people want to do ___________________ for Jesus
that costs them _______________.
At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all vigorous and strong; not one escaped. 30 That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years. -Judges 3:29-30
- You’re not going to _________
the ___________ up in you;
you’ve got to actually _____________ it out of you.
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