Badge of Honour

Topic: Show Me Your Badge of Honour

Text: Hebrew 11:8-39

Minister: Pastor Kingsley Chuks Nduka

Event Sunday Service

Date: Sunday October 12, 2014

Badge of Honour Defined

Badge of honour can be defined as the injuries, hurts and pains, disappointments, denials and sacrifices that we believers encounter or bear for God, which may not be motivated by what we stand to gain but out of our faith in Him. In Heb. 11:13 & 39-40, our attentions were drawn to characters who paid their dues in serving God without really doing it for rewards but were rewarded at last.

The honest truth is that God is not going to show up for us until that level of sacrifice is achieved by us.

Let us look at examples of characters that in their own ways bore their badges of honours in their walks with God:

1.      Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego. Daniel 3:16-26.

We are all familiar with the stories of the three Israelis who were taken captive in Babylon during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar. Their badge of honour was shown when they consented to facing death in blazing furnace in refusal to bowing to the gods of the Babylonians. The question is in the face of death, will you deny God?

2.      Daniel. Daniel 6:1-28.

In this study, Daniel is another example that readily comes to mind. With all the royal privileges, he bore his badge of honour by refusing the King's decree that no other god's should be worshiped except the god of the Babylonians.

3.      Paul also read out his badge of honours in 2 Corinthians 23-33.

4.      In Hebrew 11:8-39, we saw examples of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph etc.

The only way to attain perfection in our walk with God is to be ready to bear our badge of honour and also be conscious of the fact that our reward is not only of the temporal and physical things that we see but more of eternity. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18.

Process of Attaining Perfection In Christ

1.      Injury

2.      Healing

3.      Wonder

4.      Followership

5.      Worship

6.      Witnessing/Testimony

How You Should Bear Your Badge of Honour

1.      Stay put in the pain and go through it.

2.      Open the wound, don't complain, rather cry or pray to God if you need to.

3.      Know that you will overcome.

In conclusion; Isaiah 30:26. god says He will fix it, so wait