“The Lions Lunch”

2. “The Lions Lunch”

3. 1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

4. Be sober = Calmness of mind, mental v self-control. • Be vigilant = watchful • Adversary = Enemy • Roaring Lion = The fierceness with which he stalks, and runs down the saints; strength and ferocity

5. Walkethabout = Ready to spring upon, and devour any wanderer • Job 1:7, 2:2 “going to and fro on the earth” “walking up and down on it” • Seeking = Persistence with which he searches out his victims • Devour = to gulp down, or swallow, thus utterly to destroy

6. “How The Lion Gets His Lunch”

7. “The Small” • Those young in the faith. • I Peter 2:1-2- “Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”

8. “The Slow” • Not yet alert enough to avoid being misled • “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” – Hebrews 5:12-14

9. “The Sickly” • Dis-eased; those Spiritually weak. • “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?” - I Corinthians 3:1-3

10. “The Stragglers” • Those that have wandered away from the fellowship of the flock of God. • “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.” – Gal. 6:1,2

11. “The Sleepers” • Those who are insensitive to dangers. • “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” - 1 Cor. 10:12 • “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” – Rom. 13:11 • Jude 22,23

12. “The Injured” • They are hurt / weak and unable to protect themselves.

13. “What Can Be Done To Remain Out Of The Lion’s Mouth?

14. 1 Peter 5:9 “Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.”

15. James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

16. Ephesians 6:11 “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

17. “Steadfast In The Faith” • Faith is revealed truth – Jude vs. 3 • “Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” – Acts 14:22 • Faith is not produced in fanciful dreams, visions, or experiences, but in a “thus saith the Lord.” (II Tim. 3:16-17; Rom. 10:17).

18. “Trust In God” • He shut the mouth of the lion (Dan. 6:22) • “And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: 33. Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,” - Heb. 11:32-33. • 1 Cor. 10:13

19. “Job” “Peter”

20. Conclusion

21. Conclusion • How many of you ever heard of a lamb ever killing and devouring a lion? • We are the lambs! • Have we become the Lion's Lunch or are we continuing steadfastly as a servant of God?

22. “The Lions Lunch”