They're Worth Fighting For

If everything’s important, nothing’s important. If everything’s a priority, nothing’s a priority.

— Craig Groeschel 

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“My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me: and I felt I had something to live for, someone I must not disappoint.”

Who we are influenced by really matters. 

How they influence us really matters. 

What am I called to influence? 

Who am I called to influence? 

Deuteronomy 7

1 The Lord your God will bring you into the land. You are entering that land to own it. As you go in, he will force out these nations: the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These seven nations are stronger than you. 

2 The Lord your God will hand these nations over to you. You will defeat them. You must destroy them completely. Do not make a peace treaty with them. Do not show them any mercy. 

3 Do not marry any of them. Don’t let your daughters marry their sons. And don’t let your sons marry their daughters. 

4 Those people will turn your children away from me. Your children will begin serving other gods. The Lord will be very angry with you. And he will quickly destroy you. 

5 This is what you must do to those people: Tear down their altars. Smash their holy stone pillars. Cut down their Asherah idols and burn their idols in the fire. 

6 You are holy people. You belong to the Lord your God. He has chosen you from all the people on earth. You are his very own.

The land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other. 

You are not strong enough on your own. 

You must ________________________. 

This radical, complete destruction was important because of the depraved nature of the worship of the Canaanites, who worshipped male and female gods of sex and who presented their children for human sacrifice.

Asherah was also the name of the mother goddess of the Canaanite pantheon, the deity responsible for fertility and the productivity of soil, animals, and humankind. Prominent in its services was sacred prostitution involving priests and priestesses who represented the male and female deities. 

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

2 Corinthians 6:14 — Don’t develop partnerships with those who are not followers of Jesus’ teachings. For what real connection can exist between righteousness and rebellion? How can light participate in darkness?

Those people will turn your children…

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

— Charles H. Spurgeon

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

— G.K. Chesterton

Where does God want to take me?  

On my own, I am not enough. 

We will defeat them.

What is a must for me in 2026?

I’m fighting for more than just myself.