How the Bible Speaks of Soldiers?
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- In his final words to his understudy, the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy and said, suffer hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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- No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life so that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.
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- He wrote, the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight. The Bible speaks very favorably of soldiers.
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- When a Roman centurion came and asked Jesus to heal his servant, Jesus didn't say go and stop being a soldier. On the contrary, he said,
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- I tell you, with no one in Israel have I found such faith. In the book of Exodus, the Lord said, thou shalt not murder, and he also commanded
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- Moses and Joshua to fight against the Amalekites. Murder is an act to destroy another human being out of hatred, whereas a national army is a
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- God -ordained defense. He is God's servant for your good, but if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain, for he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out
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- God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Pay to all what is owed to them, taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
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- Our soldiers deserve our respect and our honor. They lay down their lives, some of them paying the ultimate sacrifice to defend our freedom from those who want to take it and protect the ones we love.
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- They are an example, a reminder that freedom isn't free, for even the Lord Jesus Christ laid down his life so that we would have freedom from sin and from death, paying the ultimate sacrifice out of love when we understand the text.