This past Sunday, Craig turned our attention to Deuteronomy 20, where we find a transition from the “Cities of Refuge” to a time of war for the Israelites. Just as God provided guidelines in previous chapters for the Israelites to preserve life, he also gives his people standards for battle—an inevitability for God’s children. In each sermon, Craig offers a nugget of Biblical truth (you know, one of those quotes that you want to type up with Pinterest-level creativity and hang in your house). This week, he said, “Faith reaches back in time to remember what God has done.” Fear causes us to forget the supremacy and might of God; faith remembers each instance in which God has demonstrated his love and omnipotence to his people. Instead of fearing the battles and conflicts we face, we, as Christians, should respond boldly in faith knowing that the strength of God on our side will always overpower our opposition.
