Oct. 7, 2014
“SOUND THE BATTLE CRY, SEE! THE FOE IS NIGH; RAISE THE STANDARD HIGH FOR THE LORD!!”
My friends a war rages out of control on the streets of our world today. In addition, Christ is asking dedicated men and women to join His army and tell the world that “JESUS SAVES”
“O Lord, what shall I say when [the church] turns its back before its enemies? For the [world] and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?” Joshua 7:8-9 (NKJV)
My friends it’s the Name we must defend “for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 (NKJV) A song we all sung in the Hymnal throughout my life which I never hear any more.
It was a song of faith and endurance to rally the troops, to motivate them and remind them who their leader and Captain was, Jesus Christ. It challenged all soldiers in the army of God to “SOUND THE BATTLE CRY, SEE! THE FOE IS NIGH; RAISE THE STANDARD HIGH FOR THE LORD;
Gird your armor on, Stand firm, every one, Rest your cause upon His holy word. Rouse, then soldiers! rally round the banner! Ready, steady, pass the word along, Onward, forward, shout aloud hosanna! Christ is Captain of the mighty throng.”
Today we must take the fight to the enemy as we defend our Savior and everything His word stands for. Our God’s 
promises will never becomes obsolete, or of non-effect for “Jesus Christ [and his word] is the same yesterday and today and forever.” Heb. 18:8 (NIV)
In addition, God tells us “If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him;but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” John 14:15-18 (NKJV)
We have the power my friends to defeat the enemy through our faith and God’s word. But “We are to know where we are going. We can not be in darkness if we are following Christ as our leader; for he says, “He that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
When the way seems beset with difficulty and clouded with darkness, we must believe that there is light ahead, and not turn to the right or left, but press forward…” (E. G. White The Review and Herald, Feb 20 1913)
Today God’s faithful must “SOUND THE BATTLE CRY” as we tell the world “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved you and your household.” Acts 16:31 (NIV)
Graffiti from the 1800s discovered by workers renovating the Washington Monument reads “Whoever is the human instrument under God in the conversion of one soul, erects a monument to his own memory more lofty and enduing than this,”
Our battle plans must be to conquer through God’s Spirit one soul at a time. God tells us in His word “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Is. 55:11 (KJV)
“So friends what are your marching orders? Success is not the question for a Child of God to discuss. our orders run thus, “go ye 
into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” “And then my friends, ”the end shall come”
the secret to every Christian’s success in his or her mandate from God, will be found in the harmonious and daily working of all Christians along with the Holy Spirit in the finishing up of Gods work regardless of what this world deems as success.
Therefore, in the sense of a vital faith and genuine obedience and indomitable courage embracing the total stewardship of life, may it be said of us at Christ soon return, They did go tirelessly into all the world and “SOUND THE BATTLE CRY, TELLING ALL THAT THE FOE IS NIGH; AS THEY RAISED THE STANDARD HIGH FOR THE LORD”
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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