Scratch: When No One Goes With Me

Going Alone

Jon Fredricks

Today's Scripture: 1 Samuel 14:1-14 (NIV)

1. PIN THE PURPOSE

1 Samuel 14:6 (NIV)

6 Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the Lord from saving, whether by many or by few.”

Galatians 2:20 (ESV)

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Romans 14:8 (ESV)

For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Philippians 1:20 (NIV)20 I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

Proverbs 3:3 (ESV)

Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Habakkuk 2:2 (ESV)

And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.

2. SURRENDER VALIDATION

John 6:63 (ESV)

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Matthew 16:23 (NIV)

Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

Mark 3:21 (NIV)

21 When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”

Proverbs 29:25 (The Message)

25 The fear of human opinion disables;trusting in God protects you from that.

1 Samuel 14:1, 3b (NIV)

1 One day Jonathan son of Saul said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.

3b…No one was aware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 14:17 (NIV)

17 Then Saul said to the men who were with him, “Muster the forces and see who has left us.” When they did, it was Jonathan and his armor-bearer who were not there.

3. LEAN INTO THE GOOD HELP YOU DO HAVE

1 Samuel 14:7 (NIV)

“Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”

Psalm 68:6 (NIV)

God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.

4. TRUST

1 Samuel 14:11-12 (NIV)

11 So both of them showed themselves to the Philistine outpost. “Look!” said the Philistines. “The Hebrews are crawling out of the holes they were hiding in.” 12 The men of the outpost shouted to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, “Come up to us and we’ll teach you a lesson.”

So Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Climb up after me; the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel.”

Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.