Garth Heckman

The David Alliance

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*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…