ONWARD
Phil 3:1-15
1 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
(KJV)
NEVER SOUND RETREAT!
*** The little drummer boy who did not know how to play retreat!
We have time and time again seen pictures of very young boys at war and feel it is unnatural and cruel. But for countless reasons boys have gone off to war whether we liked it or not and probably will continue to do so. During the Great War thousands of British teenagers joined it is estimated some 250,000 were underage. Jim Norton at 16 was asked to walk around the corner and come back with a different story which he did adding another 3 years.
The American Civil War has its own stories of the Drummer Boys such as the Bealeton Virginia Drum Corps where children as young as 9 and 10 were present. Tales of bravery and selfless sacrifice are abundant. At the fall of Fort Sumter on the 13th April 1861 Robert Henry Henderson from Michigan was caught in the war frenzy and dreamed of battle. His mother a widow it is told had some problems with the lad and acknowledged that he needed some discipline. He continually ran form school and ignored his education so much so he was unable to w rite his name.
SONGS INSPIRED BY THE CIVIL WAR
I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land
3:01 Daniel Decatur Emmett
All Quiet Along The Potomac Tonight
5:34 John Hill Hewitt
We Are Coming, Father Abra'am
4:18 Luther O. Emerson
Mother, Is The Battle Over?
3:20 Benedict Roefs (attrib.)
Tenting On The Old Camp Ground
4:59 Walter Kittredge
The Drummer Boy of Shiloh
7:43 William Shakespeare Hays
Beauregard's Retreat From Shiloh
7:15 Anonymous
Jeff In Petticoats
4:04 Henry Tucker
Weeping, Sad and Lonely
5:33 Henry Tucker
I'm A Good Old Rebel
1:57 R. Bishop Buckley (attrib.)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1:59 Louis Lambert
We Are Coming From The Cotton
PRESS---
1377 dioko (dee-o'-ko);
a prolonged (and causative) form of a primary verb dio (to flee; compare the base of 1169 and 1249); to pursue (literally or figuratively); by implication, to persecute:
KJV-- ensue, follow (after), given to, (suffer) persecute (-ion), press forward.
1377 dioko-
1) to make to run or flee, to put to flight, to drive away
2) to run swiftly in order to catch a person or thing, to run after
a) to press on: figuratively, used of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal
b) to pursue (in a hostile manner)
3) in any way whatever to harass, to trouble, to molest one
a) to persecute
b) to be mistreated, to suffer persecution on account of something
4) without the idea of hostility, to run after, to follow after someone
5) metaphorically, to pursue, to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavor to acquire
THE TWO MOTIVATIONS--
# (1) THE TROUBLE AND PERSECUTION BEHIND US!
to pursue (in a hostile manner) in any way whatever to harass, to trouble, to molest one,to persecute.
to be mistreated, to suffer persecution on account of something.
# (2) THE PRIZE BEFORE US!
without the idea of hostility, to run after, to follow after someone
metaphorically, to pursue, to seek after eagerly, earnestly endeavor to make to run or flee, to put to flight, to drive away
to run swiftly in order to catch a person or thing, to run after
to press on: figuratively, used of one who in a race runs swiftly to reach the goal
Phil 3:14
14 I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God is calling us up to heaven because of what Christ Jesus did for us.
(TLB)
2 Tim 2:3-5
3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.
(KJV)
2 Tim 1:8
8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
(KJV)
James 1:12
12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
(KJV)
2 Cor 10:3-5
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 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;
(KJV)
Eph 6:11
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
(KJV)
1 Tim 1:18-19
18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;
19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
(KJV)
