Rev. Jasper W. Williams, Jr., Pastor Emeritus, Salem Bible Church, Atlanta, GA

[Music] we'll ask that we all would stand on our feet in memory of dr. Franklin we'll all stand on a seat and join me in his hymn that was a theme him for confessed [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so from Paul's second letter to Timothy the second chapter of said book and the third verse you find the following word now therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of the Lord Jesus right yeah thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ all right talk from the subject a good soldier a good soldier at the time that this particular verse was pin the Apostle Paul was awaiting the opportunity to go and warm and clean his kids before please in Rome I just met him all indication he had gotten some kind of understanding about the life of the Roman soldier for many times as he was looked out of his barred windows he would see soldiers mending sharpening and cleaning that weapon he saw soldiers on the drill soldiers on the March he calls soldiers on parade Paul looks and crosses just put their armor on and take their armor oh and he detected that the details of the Roman soldier were very much like the details of a Christian life and notice how admirably these two entities compare one with another therefore when he penned this text to his spiritual son Timothy he said unto Him thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier one thing about warfare as released to the Christian life is that it is never an easy fight but whenever one has been loyal and faithful to the gospel he must be ready to face opposition and ridicule he must share his suffering with his comrades in all just stops today and let your mind go back over the saints and prophets of old who have lived and died in this warfare and it will tell us today that it is truly no easy fight Stephen was the first decent of the church the full of faith then full of the Holy Ghost Stephen was stoned to death ever pratices got sick doing the Lord's work Timothy suffered with stomach trouble Matthias who took the place of Judas as one of the twelve was killed with a sword in Ethiopia Martha tracked through the streets of Alexandria Luke was hanging to death and grease on a tree John the ball and a chisel of hot burning or Peeta was crucified on a cross with his head down and his heels Phillips pertained to death but Solomon was pleased to death Barnabas was stoned to death Paul's head was chopped off at Nero's chopping block the Christian Right is no easy fight and I hear him saying his little son by bath for endure hardness as a good soldier notice he says endure hardness in your heart this that would endure means to accept or endure means not giving in to the pressures that have been heaped upon you endure means to persevere in spite of thaw in Dora's are persecuted and in Durrell's army to go in lion then five eternity in duels be out on islands of Patmos on profit ensue rules have a hard fight and yes we are going to be in this loss path of God we must have that kind of endurance that will not lie down and give in to things the pants and righteousness is one of hotness and this heartless meets all of us and every passage and see of our existence no one that he says how that boy endure hardness as a good food at the time of this text da was the plight of the Christian faith toldja puppy was aware of the great price Christians were paying at that time to just keep the peace forever since the church had been established it had had a blooded bloody history so God's people had been thrown in dens where hungry lions wait for their some heavenly spectators so as to be trust in the amphitheater and made to fight like Letty some of God's people have been put and bound into over populated jail many of a crucified with a head down and I healed by meeting had been distorted by the Romans puja because it was a federal offense to be caught having a premium the Apostle had seen the wrists and ankles about people bound with chains and shattered all the cost they called the name Jesus callin Shepherd heard the whack of the axe and he rolls chopping block and a clean the Roman soldiers gather up the head of the face like they were souvenirs and after him playing to his spiritual son Timothy I'm in jail now son wish I could be there with you but doc surrender don't succumb when don't give up thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier notice if you please that he uses the terminology good soldier good food appalled does not face you as a soldier that hard all soldiers are not necessarily good soldier when soldiers need nothing but a mere temptation and it is uncounted idle useless and work yes but the good soldier is bravest of the brave and more courageous than all therefore endure hardness as a good soldier the posture which arises at this time is preacher what are some of the traits and attributes and characteristics of a good soldier well the first thing about a good soldier is that a good soldier is one who believes in the cause for which he fights as dr. Franklin would say as my mind take a fool back down memory lane and I reminisce the decades of perspective I bring into Middle East hope of a man Cassius Clay alias Muhammad Ali when the US Army was involved the war in Vietnam they called can't you please to come the war but he raised himself as what they call the conscientious objector told the whole wide world that the u.s. government was wrong for having involved except in the political wall of Vietnam can't you play gave everybody to know that even if they made him go to the battlefield that he would refuse to fight because he did not believe in the cold as we stopped this afternoon and think upon the clothes of the Christian life and all the years at stake in that cold it's the kingdom of God at stake the crown of Jesus the cross the Godspell the doctrines of truth all of these are at stake and if we are born to be a good soldier we must first of all believe in the pole in other words you got to believe in the preaching of the doc you got to believe in Fred you got to believe in the Bible you have to believe in giving spies you got to believe in your heaven you got to believe in the pills you got to believe in all right you got to believe in wrong you got to believe in being wrong again you got to believe in going the other that we would have them do unto you you've got to believe in working house your soul salvation in swimming hand and there you have got to believe all of us in this room today I'm sure over a test with me when I say that that will feel 20 it is literally impossible for any man to have preached and taught the gospel as he did and not believe in that gospel that's why I say he was a good soldier I recruited Paul's out there for inter hot let's have a good soul another thing about a good soldier is that he keeps in contact with the commander-in-chief in our mid the breakdown is that the climate takes his orders from the copper the copper gets his orders from the sergeant dajin takes his orders from the lieutenant lieutenant takes his orders from the captain and oldest Alliance but all of them at some time or another has to make some time with the commander-in-chief in God Jesus five years the commander in chief Kable refill michael and the other angels are the past stop killing the Canadian Jews are the gentlemen the 24 elders are the colonel the Tetra are the major the puppet are the captain the teeth are the lieutenant the pieces of the black bear are the Corporal and every child of God old mafia battlefield is a private who's trying to wear this doubling his calling to fulfill I'm talking today about a foot soldier a good soldier we're going to go down to enlist in arm back soldier must first of all would be three years and trees because a foothold does not become good overnight like pain and anguish he must go through when I was at work in dedication he must in sleep it's not an easy job to be a good soldier when that soldier it is basic strange there are three pain he's told he's found number ones who all say oh definitely he's told how to put on this uniform and use his weapon back there he's taught that sacrifice I put soldier Turkish one who work around he doesn't go out to his own pleasures because he lives under the law and rule of another a good soldier does not intervene moonlighting Roy no business on the pack I suppose even when he sleeps and not on coal is still supposedly to be on duty he's not concerned about his own wishes at his own whim he moves at the work of his command whenever the commander tells him to do that's what he stirs this is a man to tell him get up he gives us his the communitarian Holly he poles here there's a command called in such a time whoops both feet together chest out shoulders back hey if a commander tells him and he he relaxed it was Amanda test cut out he caught a brick soldier obeys the command of this officer ah let my mind go back over the ministry dr. Franklin all of us in this room today but again agree that he was obviously a good soldier he obeyed oh when they back came the command to him go he bad boy into her all the world and preach forgotten you know and I know he did so you know and I know he did free he obeys all the car he was ha ha whistles very good soldier brother than crystal wear the uniform Oh woody that he he may well put on the planner is of war but when it comes down to real walk he's not concerned about the bread and the bush the folks and the dust and the promise of a rolled up on the backseat the souls of rules are the tennis shoes these are the things and my a good holder and Krawczyk won the gold a cold during yes we hate the Christian life we too have our uniform Toto live in Ephesians 6 chapter 11 through the 15th person but we do have our uniforms wrong there um of God that he may be able turn against the wall over this let me tell you one Saint said we're not resting against a common ordinary everyday in a minute he goes on attacks and we wrestle against principessa okay okay the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places Oh God pinnacle keepers he thought missing the different pieces of the universe but if he starts off with got lucky aligned in truth I used to wonder why target there then start with the head or with the feet but Dallas aligned with true little Roman soldiers whoa shock stick don't suck dick well there might like the Spanish kill old oil shocks head to head back to knit or long clothes and whenever not called you would get into war he was pressed pull that fat tunic and tuck it under mr. Brunner his leg would be free so that his feet would be I am heated that he could adequately to back or you understand me now whatever you see a power told it was long good you knew him he was ready for what he'll I'm relieved we're born in the pipe the Christian we must carry out there in line of fruit very must be fed from the back please oh right Chuck list that quickly the war president protected their heart too long another time organs that were contained therein the breastplate of righteousness protect us in that it provides really good conscience that protects us from attic in benefit right freeze men from the terror and he use of this word they are in fact where are your feet the shoes of the gun if it got to be shot with a pair of peace oh you're not complete ever soldier if you don't belong your possible shoe yet should be can you imagine a proposal it could be told you with his helmet on his head let's play a pocket check sheet on sword in a pain and fear and no to you old his feet no matter how complete his unit on here he has hidden complete if he has no shoes honesty shamrocks and stone was cut and bruised to make you I broke them in rough childhood feet in a top pair of Pisa then I think that put the shield face on your own I hear somebody say that if I have a piece of a sauce here to climb one need to add it is a shield up face well you can steal title to fight if you have no grit clear righteousness you can kind of the time if you have no God fella peace on your feet you can kind of good tight if you don't have the helmet of salvation if you got your big one it's best to have the shield the face on your hip hop backs easily protect you from the paradox was the easy one I hear somebody say where your back on everything need grapnel depressed be to shoes the hell there's a comeback the Bible says that we are not only calls upon the beach haha but we ought to be more than oh we must not know it win but we must win abundantly how victorious he goes on and there put the helmet of salvation on your head which means you are say hey we took yeah please say from the press in roles of saying see from the stain of death save from the victory of the green saying come on a hole in save from evil impulses ow their leader will be in math you must take up the soul or the spirit that there is nothing but the Word of God God will let you know is super natural in origin is an anarchist ship human in penmanship infallible in authority SMS in book here black holes in each rational in application travel in declaration wonderful in its translation its inspiration in its declaration of the final confirmation did not acted the power of the Spirit hey I was remote if those noises ha ha the hair of salvation over here notice I got the black plate of righteousness on the chest notice I'm alive bloody round my body I got the gospel of peace almost week I got the Sheila pain oh man farm spirit in the hallways in the soldier head of breath please there's nothing oh is that tomato why is it that a soldier does not have a Baxley the reason why is a soldier it's always going top always nothing oh never can turn around it returns around then you old devil may shooting that and I think about dr. Frank he too had no bhakti you are a personal I were him say Oh be awkward with collation best in be the face I to click done I will give you the crown of life he did not play in a pen be thou faithful unto death and I don't know even finer but for some reason we proudly use that foot and become really fun hi miss quote that I ever would get anybody my god the past it does not fair feed our people until this measure but very PES be laughing I am stupid and I have a difference in the word until and the word on to harness and that work until me to the point but the were nice to me - yawns upon all along that and I'm care that means is limited but I'm to me is the human all bound and beyond all limits all that if I think about justice and then frequent sister from a many lonely oh yes it is shown in about two minutes until members and they're alone - Oh [Applause] gramma and widget until a disagreement and and we're here until to him apiece for em until the proper name recognize a people until people onto this road may be rough the boy may become don't be safer until they attain happiness the Beast rayful's up unto this that means that don't be a fool I'm trails s found in the area so I'm a cop machine where I must be safe or Gras these are people today I will be a prime through life or death I'm gold head 10 yeah just one more thing back to the days of the Civil War when you're ready to be free and private living learn that the Union ominous was on their way Trinette backbone that he got picked and get into Rock why you going was told that is more than crises defin you know MIT where assassin bomber in the front way and somehow your head cut down on that back to you why the screen pops up to him great that trakula [Music] we're not moving to rush out when I walk west to wear oh yeah that's what is oh oh oh you gotta say [Applause] [Music] yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Jul 28 2017