ONE PLUS GOD

Judges 7-18-20

I. Introduction

A. These two verses set forth the eternal truth of one plus God equals the need of the hour

1. Gideon plus God - What an army

2. Just another way of saying if God be for us who can be against us?

B. I would like to emphasize the importance of the Value of One

1. One weak link in a chain can spell disaster

2. One letter is essential to the alphabet for no alphabet can function without all the letters

3. One figure is necessary to the multiplication table

4. One key on the organ is indispensable.

II. History is Replete with the Value of One

A. It was by one vote Aaron Burr missed being President

I It was by one vote President Andrew Johnson missed being impeached

2. It was one vote that gave Texas to the U.S. and thus caused a war with Mexico

3. It was one vote that made California a part of the Union

4. It was one vote that elected Oliver Cromwell to parliament and sent Charles I to the scaffold, making England free.

5. It was one vote in the electoral college in 1876 that decided who should be our President

B. I remember that no historical society discovered America but one man - Christopher Columbus

1. It was no nation that rescued Scotland from her enemies but one man - John Knox

2. You may be only one man here to day, but you are one

3. You are not everybody but you are somebody

4. You can't do everything but you can do something

Ill. One Man's Ability

A. Andrew brought Simon to Jesus - just one

I But a few years later that one man would preach a sermon that brought 3,000 to Christ

2. One man - a Sunday School teacher by the name of Henry Kimball led on teenage boy to Christ - that one

boy was D. L. Moody

3. Harry Monroe led a drunken derelict by the name of Mel Trotter to Christ. But there came a time when that one became many

4. One man, a layman, stood before a near empty church because of a sudden snowstorm. The layman spoke to only one boy that day - the boy got converted - only one - Charles Spurgeon

B. Let's not forget it was John Know plus God

1. Spurgeon plus God - D.L. Moody plus God

2. The sword of the Lord and of Gideon

3. The lives of these I have mentioned show that Jesus knew the power of one plus God

4. "HE that abideth in ME, the same bringeth forth much fruit."

IV. I Could Say More

A. I could go on and mention Livingstone, Wesley, William Carey and a host of others

I. All - only one but that one plus God

2. 1 would like to close our thoughts by asking a few questions and a statement or two

3. Has it dawned upon you that god has called you to be one?

4. Will you give Him your bits or your best?

B. With us will it be sweet sayings about Him or sacrificial service for Him?

1. Will it be rolling marbles or moving mountains?

2. Will the Cross be an ornament or a reality to us?

3. Will it be chasing the butterflies of short lived pleasure or the going into a wilderness to recover lost sheep?

4. Will we fail in being that one man - the one man plus God?

5. Will you be that one man - God's man?

6. Determine today that you will be that man, that your life counts. That you are valuable - you are significant! - Why?

7. Because one plus God can do anything

8. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.