Ep 494 | Soldiers Of Chist Arise - Terry Osburn 3/19/23

I want to talk about the Soldiers of Christ and this

certainly is not a new subject. This is I gave this same lessons

a few years back, and, but I believe it's good for us

especially even those that are newer members those that are

babes in Christ to understand what our responsibility as is as

a soldier of Christ. In second, Timothy the second

chapter verses 1 through 4, Paul writing to Timmy said, Timothy

says now, therefore my son, be strong in the grace, that is in

Christ, Jesus. And the things that thou Hast

heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou

to Faithful, Men Who Shall be able to teach others also, Now,

therefore, endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

No, man. That warith entangled himself

with the Affairs of this life. That he may please him who had

chosen him to be a soldier. You think about the Apostle,

Paul and the battles that he went through for Christ,

consider the old battle-scarred Warriors.

Paul in Galatians, the sixth chapter in verses 16 relations

of 6, chapter and verse 17. From henceforth, let no man

trouble me for I bear in my body, the marks of the Lord,

Jesus, Not only was there taunting and was their mental

distress that Paul endured. But there was also a physical

scars on his own body, from his war against Satan.

In the end, the evil things of this Earth.

Enemies are the cause of war in 1st Peter, 5 and verse 8, be

sober be vigilant because your adversary, the devil as a

roaring lion walketh about seeking whom.

He may devour. If we do not think that we are

in a battle, we are mistaken and we are deceiving ourselves.

If we do not think that we are in a spiritual war, there is a

Warfare going on for our souls. We are sadly.

Deceived this morning, he talked talking here.

He says, be sober be vigilant because your adversary, the

devil that's who were fighting against, that's who are we?

We are in a battle with against for our soul, but that the

Warfare is not something that we fight here on this Earth with

physical means. In other words, we don't have

tanks and Bazookas and missiles and Rockets and bombs and all

these kinds of things. It Is a spiritual warfare,

Ephesians 6, and verse 12 for we wrestle.

Not against flesh and blood, not physically, but against

principalities against Powers against the rulers.

Of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness, in

high places, this is a spiritual warfare.

It is something that we don't necessarily see right in from

us. In front of us, there is a

spiritual warfare. That is going on all around us

and it is something against the rulers of the darkness of this

world against principalities against Powers.

Spiritual wickedness. In high places notice also 2nd

Corinthians 10 verses 3 through 5 for though.

We walk in the flesh. We do not war after the flesh

for the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal.

But Mighty through God to the pulling The pulling down of

strongholds 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. Also 1st Peter 2 and verse 11

dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain

from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

So it is a battle against our soul, that is a battle against

our spiritual soul. That is going on each and every

day. That's the kind of warfare that

is happening in our lives, with all the turmoil that's going on

today in the world, we need to arm ourselves, both and protect

ourselves and our families against the war for our souls.

You know, we look at and we hear about all the Use.

I can't even hardly watch the news anymore, I get Snippets.

And that's all I need anymore to be able to turn it off and not

even listen to it, but it talks. But the all the news today is

about all the things that war against the soul.

That's all we hear about are things that war against the

soul. We hear about Sin, we heard but

depravity. We hear about so many things

that they're trying to get our children to turn away from, even

their own parents. That our parents are the are the

enemy. They're trying to change our

children in privacy. From their parents.

That is a war against the soul of man, a war against our

children, a war against our families.

That is going on all this stuff about who you identify as today.

Whether you identify as a man, or whether you identify as a

woman, God made, man, and God made woman, and that's who we

are. But the warring of the soul will

tell you something different. There is a war going on, trying

to change those things and it is a fight that we are against

today. We want to talk a little bit

about the enlistment of the soldier.

We realize that this enlistment is something that is voluntary,

it is not something that is forced on us.

It is of our own free will Joshua told the Israelites in

Joshua 24? And verses verse 15.

Choose for you this day, whom you will serve.

He said, goes on to say in the latter part of the verse, but as

for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

So we have to make that choice. It is not forced upon us.

We have all made that choice today that we are going to serve

the Lord. It is a voluntary Army for the

Lord, but we need to make that choice who we are going to serve

and Lessman is for Life. Revelations 2 and verse 10 fear.

None of those things that thou shalt suffer behold.

The devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be

tried. And ye shall have tribulation

ten days. Be thou faithful unto death and

I will give you a Crown of Life. So this is a lifetime

enlistment, you know, a person goes down and this is in the

Army and listens and navy and listen, the Air Force, or

whatever it may be. And that's for a certain period

of time, for whatever it is for years, 10 years, 20 years,

whatever it may be. But when we enlist in the army

of Christ, it is for Life as a lifetime commitment.

It's not that we get in and we say, well, you know, this isn't

working out the way I thought it was.

I didn't know I was going to be crawling in mud.

I didn't know that I was going to have.

Bullets, flying over my head. I didn't know people were going

to be shooting at me. I didn't know they were going to

be dropping bombs near to me and things of that nature.

I'm just done with this. I'll see you guys later.

I'm going to go do something else.

It's much more safe. Know when we enlist in the army

of God, we enlist for wife. It is a lifetime commitment.

And when things get rough, and when things get tough, we don't

just throw our arms arms up and say, you know what?

I'm done with this. We don't do that.

It is be, thou faithful unto death and I will give you a

Crown of Life. The Rules Of Enlistment are

Hearing the word of God. Romans 10 verse 17.

Romans 10:17

So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God,

believing Mark 16 and verse 16, he who believes and is baptized

will be saved. But he who does not believe will

be condemned. We find that there is repentance

and must take place to be enlisted in the army of God,

Acts 2, and verse 38. Then Peter said to them.

Repent. And let every one of you be

baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of

sins. And you will receive The gift of

the Holy Spirit. We find that the confession is

is necessary for entrance into the army of God and confessing

in Matthew 10 verse 32. Therefore, whoever confesses me

Matthew 10:32

before men him, I will also confess before my father, who is

in heaven, baptism is all a cell also, essential to be in the

army of God first Peter 3. And verse 21 there is also an

antitype which now saves us. Baptism, not the removal of the

filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good Good conscience

toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

You cannot get into the US Army without a commitment without

meeting the requirements and neither can you get into the

army of God without meeting the requirements?

Also, there are no path of pacifists allowed in this Army.

You are either against or you are for God, Matthew 12 and

verse 30. He that is not with me is

against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Also the uniform that we wear as and the weapons that we use as

the Christian Soldier Ephesians, the sixth chapter, this is

suffered a series of verses that we are all very familiar with

Ephesians, the sixth chapter and verses 10 through 17, finally,

Brethren my brethren, be strong. And I think that's one of the

things that we need to understand is the furry first

thing, He says, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His

might put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to

stand against The Wiles or the deceitful, and schemes, and

trickery of the devil. For we wrestle or struggle, not

against flesh and blood. But against principalities

against Powers against the rulers of Darkness of this world

against spiritual wickedness, in high places Wherefore take unto

you, the whole armour of GOD that ye may be able to withstand

in the evil day and having done all to stand.

It goes on to say in verse 14 stand therefore having your

loins Girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of

righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the

gospel of peace above all taking the shield of Faith wherewith,

ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked

and take the Moment of Salvation And The Sword of the spirit,

which is the word of God. We want to notice of these

things, very briefly each one of these items he talks about, in

verse 14 stand. Therefore prepared, preparing

yourselves for the battle at hand, and gather all the pieces

together, so that you're ready to fight this battle.

Put on the whole armor. Now, it would not make sense for

us. It would not make sense for us

for when we enlist in the army, The US Navy, or the US Army or

whatever. It may be to go down in there

and give you a helmet and you say, well no, I really don't

think I'm going to need that helmet.

I'll just pass on that and they give you body protection.

A bulletproof? Vest, maybe say, well, no, you

know I really don't think I'm going to need that.

That's too heavy. I won't be as quick on my feet

as I need to be. But if I'm going into battle,

I'm putting everything they've got on me everything.

And that's what he says here. He says put on the whole armor

so that you can withstand these things.

Having your loins Girt about with truth.

This was a heavy leather belt supporting the sword in the

clothing. Arming ourselves with the truth.

And you know, this is there's kind of a theme here within

these verses No man can enter the Christian fight without the

truth of the gospel of Christ, because if it is not true, then

we're going into battle with something that is false.

Something that is not proven something that is not sure

something that is not supported by God.

Something that is not a weapon or a way of shielding our body

that is unproven When we go into battle with the truth, we know

we have something that will work.

This is the way we know our enemy and we know how they

fight. We know how they come to attack

us and we gird ourselves with the truth against false Doctrine

against lies. And those things that would

deceive us. Truth is something that we can

trust in. John 17 verse 17, sanctify them

John 17:17

through thy truth. Thy word is truth, the word of

God, the Bible that way we read that is the truth, is the word

that God has given us to know how to go into battle against

Satan and John 8 verse 32 and you shall know the truth.

John 8:32

And the truth shall make you free.

What we fight, we fight for freedom We Fight For Freedom

against sin, we fight to be freed from sin.

So if we're going to get Freedom, if we are going to be

free, it is going to be the truth that will set us free.

He talks about the breastplate of righteousness, verse 14, and

having on the Blessed Prater breastplate of righteousness,

this was made of steel brass, copper sheets of iron and it

signifies the practice of righteousness.

A holy life. Righteousness is What men's

whole spiritual existence depends on its worn over the

breast to protect the vital organs and repel the darts, and

the arrows, and the spears that may be thrown at us.

It's there to protect us from what Satan throws at us.

If we are, do not have on the breastplate of righteousness,

then guess what? We are subject to injury and

death. Righteousness is not provided

for us. It's something that we must

produce in our own lives. We must be righteous and First

John 3 and verse 7 and 10 little children.

Let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is

righteous even as he is righteous in this, the children

of God are manifest and the children of the devil whosoever,

doeth not righteousness, is not of God, neither, he that loveth,

not his brother goes on to talk about the shoes that the

Christian wears. And verse 15 and your feet shod

with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

Well, the purpose Of any battle. As we said was, is to obtain

freedom, but also to have peace. And unity, if the feed or legs

of the soldier wounded, they can't stand.

They can't fight. Every Christian consider should

consider himself on a journey from this place to heaven.

And not only stand, every moment prepared to go forward.

But every moment in a press towards our home, always ready

and prepared, these were strong sandals.

That were tightly bound it to the feet.

They might have even spikes on the bottom of them to Aid in

climbing and and may be able to navigate through mud and

slippery surfaces and Slick surfaces.

In Romans 10 verses 15 through 17.

Romans 10:15–17

So, as much as in me is Paul said, I am ready to preach the

gospel. To you that are at Rome also for

I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of

God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first

and also to the Greek for therein is the righteousness of

God revealed from Faith to Faith.

As it is written, the just shall live by faith.

So, Paul says, I'm prepared and I'm ready to preach the gospel.

Are we prepared and ready? Do we have on Armor or we ready

to meet the full? Are we ready to March forward?

He talks about the shield, the most versatile of all made to

wear on the arm above all taking the shield of faith.

We're in. She shall be able to quench all

the fiery darts of the wicked. You know, if we don't have a

strong faith, if our faith is weak, then we're going to fail.

We can be Co overcome with wicked things, if we're not

studying our bibles, if we're not reading our bibles, if we're

not growing, in the knowledge of God, if we're not strengthening

our faith and we're just relying on Services once a week to take

care of that. My faith isn't strengthening

then when the fiery darts come at us, guess what happens?

They pierce, they heard and they destroy.

Because our faith is weakened. We become overcome with wicked

things of this world and of this life.

What if you go into debate or a talk or a discussion with

someone about all this discussion of the day?

Today about this selecting, your gender and all these other

things that are going on around us and you don't know the word

of God and what God has to say about that.

How are you going to defend the word?

How are you going to defend your faith?

How are you going to defend? What you believe?

if you don't know what you believe, So, the shield of

faith, our faith has to be strong, fiery darts of the,

wicked are evil, thoughts and strong passions that if not

controlled, they penetrate through that shield and damage

us spiritually. But our faith can quench all

that our faith can stand up to that.

Those passions will pass through the mind and never have a

stopping place. And never met like that you stop

and think about, well, you know what, he had to say was really

interesting. You know, it kind of made sense.

What does God have to say about that?

Hebrews 11 verse 6. But without faith, it is

Hebrews 11:6

impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must

believe that he is, and that he is, a rewarder of them that

diligently seek him. We need to have a strong faith.

So then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Read our Bibles study, our Bibles know what we believe and

why we believe it because it is the truth.

And the truth is what will set us free.

The Shield is intended to protect us from the wicked and

if we then will continually study God's word and keep our

convictions, strong, our faith strong would label us to

deflect, whatever Satan throws at us each and every day, the

helmet of salvation. He says, take that and put it on

the helmet was made of thick, leather or brass.

It's a helmet that protects the head.

And and this helmet is something that's impenetrable.

That the blow of an axe or a sword or whatever, it may be

some staff. Will protect us from those blows

the hope of continual safety and protection built on the promise

of God. We can be assured of the fact

that no matter how Fierce the battle we will compute be

protected. As long as we are looking toward

Heaven as our hope and goal because God has promised us The

sword of the spirit, the sword of the spirit which is the word

of God. This is the only offensive

weapon that we have at our use that the Christian prepare.

Possesses its powerful and mighty.

Notice what? Hebrews 4 verse 12 says, for the

Hebrews 4:12

word of God, which is the sword that he's talking about here.

Is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword

piercing, even to the dividing asunder of Soul and Spirit and

of the joints and Marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and

intents of the heart. And you know what if that sword

is left in Shield? If it's left in its Scabbard and

it's never used. You won't be able to defend

yourself, you won't be able to defend others and you will wind

up losing your life. It's the same and never changes

its all-powerful, it is even Pierce's to the to discern

between the thoughts and the intents of the heart.

So you see the theme that is used here throughout these

verses, how the word of God is so important to us to use.

It's not men's idea, it's not philosophy, it's not theology.

Or someone's theory about something, when we study the

word of God and we read it and we understand what it says that

is what will defend us and an end and also will ward off sin

around. Us says, do we have on certainly

the whole armor of God. We find that we must train, our

armor and weapons are of no benefit and no value.

If we don't know how to use them, you know what a person in

lists into the army today, the the US Army, they go to what is

called basic training. To know how to use the weapons

that are given to them and know how to defend themselves and

defend others as well. Basic training, first, Peter, 2

and verse 2. As newborn babes desire, the

sincere milk of the word that you may grow.

Thereby, there it is again. What's important to us the word

of God, exercise and training your essential and prepare us

for the Battle of life that we have to be fought each and every

day. And if not we lose second

2 Timothy 4:7–8

Timothy 4 verses 7 through 8. I have fought the good fight.

Paul says I have finished. My course, I have kept the faith

henceforth. There is laid up for Me a crown

of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall

give me at that day, and not to me only but unto all them also

that love his appearing. Also soldiers need strength to

endure hardship, 2nd, Timothy 4 and verse 5, but that but watch

thou in all things endure afflictions.

We see these these endurance runs and and triathlons where

they swim for so long and bright a bike for so long and then run

a marathon afterwards. You got to have some endurance

to be able to make it to the end of that.

And that be, it takes some training.

We have to endure the hardships and we have to endure all the

problems on the things that come at us in this Christian Life.

And we have to learn how to deal with those.

Those things that are brought before us and get around them,

or get through them or get under them.

However, it is, but this is a battle of endurance.

It is not a Sprint all the time. It is a battle of endurance and

Paul says, I have fought the good fight.

I have finished. My course, I have kept the

faith. There's a reward for me and he

tells us also tells Timothy to be be enduring also in second

Timothy In verse three, thou therefore endure hardship as a

good soldier of Jesus Christ. Also soldiers must be alert for

spies and those who are traitors.

In Acts the SEC 20th, chapter verses 29 through 31 for, I know

this. That after my departing shall

Grievous. Wolves.

Enter in among you not sparing? The flock also of your own

selves shall men. Arise speaking perverse, things

to draw away disciples after them.

Therefore watch. And remember that by the space

of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and day

with tears. So we have to be aware and that

goes back to knowing the word of God and what is right?

And what is wrong. And watching out for those

traders, that might be around us, false Brethren, and doctor

and also with in Galatians 2 and verse 4.

And that because of false Brethren unawares brought in who

came in, privily to spy out our Liberty, which we have in Jesus

Christ that they might bring us into bondage.

You know, we don't see what we see on the news today when it

comes to a military battle. We see all the fighting that

goes on, the shooting of guns and in tanks and bombs and

missiles and they'll send those kind of things.

But behind the scenes, there is spying going on that.

We don't see The enemy doesn't see.

And sometimes there's there's things like this that happen

within the church and we ought not to let that happen by false

Doctrine and false false teaching also.

Second Corinthians 11 verses, 14 to 15 and no Marvel for Satan

himself is transformed into an angel of Light.

Therefore it is no great thing. If his ministers also be

transformed as the Ministers of righteousness, Who's in shall be

according to their works. We got to be careful.

We have to be vigilant, we have to be careful and not let these

things happen. Not that false teachers.

Come in Paul's brob false Brethren and false Doctrine into

the church false prophets will camouflage themselves.

Jesus said in Matthew 7, verses 15 through 17, beware of false

Matthew 7:15–17

prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly.

They are ravening wolves. You shall know them by their

fruits do men, gather Grapes of thorns or figs of thistles, we

shall know them by their fruits. we all remember the old cartoons

with the Sheepdog sitting up watching over the flock of sheep

and then all said and the wolf comes along and he's got a cloak

of sheep's clothing over him. And we have to be careful of

that. Also, we want to notice about

deserters and in subordinates 1st Timothy 4, and verse 1.

Now the spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter

times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to

seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.

We've witnessed this. We've seen this.

How doctrines false doctrines can influence a person and pull

them away and desert the true church in subordinates.

Second Thessalonians 3 and verse 6.

Now we command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus

Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother

that walketh disorderly and not after the tradition which he

received of us. Sometimes, there are tough

things that have to happen. that we have to withdraw some from

those that would oppose the church, I want to talk for a

moment briefly about Friendly Fire.

What is friendly fire? Well throughout history and this

is I'm quoting from an article that my brother Glenn had

written and I've got some Snippets of it here throughout

history in the heat of confusion and confusion of battle.

Soldiers have mistakenly attacked their own troops

thinking they were engaging the enemy.

This misguided attacks are called Friendly Fire and history

has shown that Whatever. Whenever Wherever there is,

Conflict, there is friendly fire.

Regret regrettably the same phenomenon phenomenon is also

found in spiritual warfare. Sometimes Christians, become

confused and believe that they are battling an enemy.

When in reality were battling, those who are on the same side,

Paul gave the church in galatia warning, about spiritual

Friendly Fire, and Galatians 5 and verse 15.

But if you bite and devour one another be, what be we're lest

you be consumed by one another We in and inadvertently May pick

up and swing our spiritual sword at everyone who would challenge

us over time, we may even develop their perspective.

That anyone who disagrees with us is our enemy We develop this

conviction because we sincerely believe that we are on the

Lord's Side and know the truth. Therefore, anyone who is not on

our side, must be the enemy of God and not know the truth.

Since we are on the Lord's Side, they must be off.

We must be make sure that we at that.

The fight were fighting for is the Lord's and not our own.

The Bible tells us to examine everything carefully first

Thessalonians 5 and 21. But when doing this, we must

work at it. Objectively not just not just

react defensively again. What?

God demands that we love the truth.

Second Thessalonians, 2 and 10, not just automatically defend

our position to love the. Truth means to want to know the

truth even if it costs us the embarrassment of being found

wrong. To automatically react

defensively to every question or disagreement is fleshly

unintelligent immature. And a symptom of Pride.

So we need to be careful about Friendly Fire and make sure who

we are firing at. And one of those things that we

must do is we must know who our enemy is and recognize our

enemy. At times, we may attack allies

because we don't recognize them. They may not be familiar with

them, we may not be familiar with them, so we attack before.

We know that who we are attacking, these may be genuine

Brethren from a different country or culture.

Just because they don't use the same translation we do.

Use the same song book, we do wear the same fashions that we

wear know the same people. We know does not mean that they

do not know the Lord. And as a person can through

faith obey, the gospel and worship, God in spirit, and in

truth, and not know us personally the supplies to the

people within our own country as well.

We can't be involved in in rivalry in the church.

That leads to Civil War. We've seen that happen

sometimes. Criticize others in the church

discourage our own children. We are on the same side, we all

wear the same uniform, that is the uniform of Christ.

Galatians 3 and verse 27, for as many of us as have been baptized

into Christ, have put on Christ. So we wouldn't want to shoot our

own at our own men. We wouldn't want to shoot at

God's Men and don't forget who the enemy is.

On the day of judgment, we don't want to be guilty.

Found guilty of friendly fire, axe 5 and verse 39, but if it be

of God, we cannot overthrow it last happily.

We be found even to fight against God.

Also, being a good soldier, requires sacrifice.

We sacrifice our time, we sacrifice our own selfish

desires. We sacrifice all that we are and

all that we have for the cause of Christ, Romans 12, and verse

1. I beseech you therefore Brethren

by the mercies of God, that you present, your bodies, a Living

Sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which is your reasonable

service. No, the graveyards of the

military are filled with men that gave their life for the

country for this country. They sacrifice their life for

this country and we as soldiers of the Cross as soldiers of God.

Give our bodies as a living, sacrifice for the cause of

Christ. One of our greatest battles that

we have in this life is fighting for our children, our

grandchildren, and our families, excuse me.

If we can keep our kids safe from Satan, we've won.

If we keep our grandchildren safe from Satan, we've won, if

we can fight the battle and save our families, we have one that

is your responsibility as a parent to save that little child

and to make sure they're Seoul makes it to happen.

That's your responsibility is save and that is a battle.

That is a struggle. That is a hard hard thing to do

these days with the world that we live in.

It is a battle to keep our children in the straight and

narrow way and keep our families and we have to sacrifice our

time. We sacrifice our selfish

desires, we sacrifice a lot of things.

So that others Can enjoy the blessings of Heaven.

We need to protect them. We need to save them.

There are too many fiery darts that are being thrown out them

today. And the devil wants them, they

want these little children. They want these little babies.

They want the mothers and they want the fathers.

And if they've got you that got over Generations behind it, we

need to fight fight the battle. Put on the whole armor of God

and get busy as a soldier. For our families, Visions, 6,

and verse 13. Take unto you.

The whole armor of God that you can be able to stand against The

Wiles of the devil. There's a reward for fighting

the battles First. Timothy 6 and verse 12 fight the

good fight of Faith. Lay hold on.

Eternal, A life whereunto Thou Art also called and has

professed a good profession before many witnesses.

Also second Timothy 4 and verse 7 like seven through eight is

Paul says I have fought a good fight.

I have finished my course, I have kept the faith henceforth.

There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.

That's the reward, which the Lord has given me.

Not unto me. Also not into me only but also

all them that love his appearing.

That's the reward for winning the battle.

The reward George MacArthur said in war, there's no substitute

for victory. There will be no substitute for

victory, in Jesus. There is no other battle worth

winning. There's no other battle in this

life worth winning. You can gain all the way you can

battle all your life, for all the money that you want to have,

and you still lose. You can battle all this life to

have the nicest house and still lose the battle, but there is

nothing and no substitute for victory.

In Jesus Christ, there's no substitute for victory, for our

grandchildren and our children's Souls.

There will be no substitute for the victory of witnessing, those

who are once lost in sin being baptized into Christ for the

remission of their sins. There is no substitute for that.

Lastly, I want to read this. Pone.

And there's no author attached to this.

It says I am a soldier in the army of my God the Lord Jesus

Christ. Is my commanding officer of the

Holy Spirit, the holy scriptures is my code of conduct Faith

prayer and the word are my weapons of warfare.

I have been taught by the Holy Spirit trained by experienced

Tried by adversity and tested by fire I'm a volunteer in this

Army and I am enlisted for eternity.

I will not get out sellout or be talked out.

Or pushed out. I am faithful, reliable capable

and dependable. If my God needs me, I'm there.

I am a soldier. I'm not a baby.

I do not need to be pampered. Petted trimmed up, pumped up.

Picked up, or pepped up. I'm a soldier.

No one has to call me. Remind me, write me.

Visit me. Entice me or lure.

Me, I'm a soldier. I'm not a wimp.

I'm in place saluting my king obeying, his orders, praising

his name and building his kingdom.

No one has to send me flowers gifts, food cards, or candy or

give me handouts. I do not need to be cuddled

cradled cared for or catered to I am committed.

I cannot have my feelings hurt bad enough to turn me around.

I cannot be discouraged enough to turn me aside at cannot lose

enough to cause me to quit. When Jesus called me into his

army, I have nothing. If I end up with nothing, I will

still come out ahead. I will win my God has and will

continue to supply all of my needs.

I am no more than a conqueror. I will always Triumph, I can do

all things through Christ. The devil cannot defeat me.

People cannot delusion me whether cannot weary me.

Sickness cannot, stop me battles.

Cannot beat me. Money cannot buy.

Buy me. Governments, cannot silence me

and he'll cannot handle me. I am a soldier.

Even death, cannot destroy me for when my commander calls me

from his Battlefield. He will, he will promote me to

Captain and then allow me to rule with him.

I am a soldier in the Army and I'm marching claiming Victory.

I will not give up. I will not turn around.

I am a soldier marching heaven-bound here I stand.

Will you stand with me? Let's be soldiers for the cross.

It's not easy. It's a batter.

Let's be a soldier for the cross and a soldier for our families

and a soldier for our acquaintances.

To win the battle. And when others to Christ, We

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