Beware of 2 voices

The David Alliance

Garth Heckman

TDAgiantSlayer@Gmail.com

*The man who drops a dollar in the toilet and and isn’t sure if he wants to put his hand in there to get it out… his friend says well how much money do you have in your wallet? The guy pulls it out and says $212, his friend grabs it and throws it in the toilet… the man screams and shoves his hand down into the dirty toilet water and grabs all the money out…. He screams at his friend “why did you do that”. 

His friend says “with great motivation there is no fear”. 

 

What is your motivation?

What is your cause?

What is your non negotiable go to target?

 

 

 

ACTS

28 When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta. 2 The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold, they kindled a fire and received us all. 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. 4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, “Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live.” 5 However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm. 6 But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

 

 

UP TO THIS POINT IN PAULS LIFE

Snuck out over a wall in Damascus

Stone and left for Dead in Lystra

Beaten and arrested Phillipi 

Chased out of Thessalonica by Gangs

Mocked and laughed in Athens philosophers

Almost torn to pieces in Jerusalem

2 Cor. 11 he states…. 

He was in far more labors

Far more pain and imprisonments

Beaten times without number

In Danger of death numerous times

Five times whipped 39 lashes

Three times beaten with rods

Stoned dead once 

Shipwrecked 3 times

Spent a day and night in the ocean 

Has been in dangers of rivers, robbers, countrymen, gentiles, danger in the city in the wilderness, in the sea, among false brethren, has been in hard labor and hardship, sleepless nights, hungry and thirsty for days in the in the cold

 

 

TRIGGERED…Why does Paul not get 

Triggered, angered, flooded, explosive, panic, give up, run away, fight or flight… 

 

 

You would think at this point… after everything I just read- Paul would get bit by this snake and just lose it! 

 

 

WHATS YOUR RESPONSE in the natural

SHRIEK

         PANIC

             SHAKE IT OFF? 

 

 

SHAKE - not what you think! 

apotinassó: To shake off, to shake away

Original Word: ἀποτινάσσω
Transliteration: apotinassó
Pronunciation: ah-po-tee-NAS-so
TO MOVE TO AND FRO…

     TO SEPARATE ONESELF FROM

“Flick the lint off ones collar”

*you are not a part of this… give no thought.

 

 

PAUL HAD A CAUSE THAT WOULD 

IMMOBILIZE ANY CIRCUMSTANCE

The cause supersedes the cost

The cause makes everything else insignificant

The cause is focus and everything else is mist

 

WHAT IS YOUR CAUSE…

Yes Jesus, Yes the gospel, but what is the cause deep within that in which God calls you to brush everything else off. 

 

WHAT HAS HE CALLED/CAUSED YOU TO DO? 

 

 

PAULS GOT A MISSION

He is seized in Jerusalem - He’s got a mission

He is falsely accused and beaten - He’s got a mission

He is chained and sent to Festus, Felix, Agrippa and now Caesar… he’s got a mission

He is in a storm - He’s got a mission 

He is shipwrecked - He’s got a mission

He is bit by a snake - He’s got a mission

 

PAUL IS IN BAD CIRCUMSTANCES

  * NOTE: He does not let circumstances dictate what God has spoken to him about. Or how he sees his mission. - an angel spoke to Paul and said you will not die in the shipwreck and storm… but he does’t mention the snake. 

YOU EVER GET A WORD FROM GOD AND THEN A CIRCUMSTANCE PUSHES BACK IN THE OTHER DIRECTION? 

 

 

 

PAUL GETS BIT - no excuses, no why me, no mind talk of sin, death, what will people think

 

PAUL GETS JUDGED

Paul was a murderer… he killed Christians.
  *I wonder how many of Todays Christians would have looked at the snake and said “well, I had it coming to me… I am the reason many Christians died”.