Who's Your Hero?

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Titus 2:13)

A young brother in the Lord challenged me by an article he wrote on “heroes”. He asked the question to himself (in the note on Facebook): “Who is your hero?” Jordan (the young man’s name) said some things that really blew my mind as he pointed out all the human heroes he could think of in his life, none could stand with him in all things like the Lord Jesus Christ.

That same question I ask to myself and to you: WHO IS YOUR HERO? There’s a thing in Christendom we Christians and even non-Chris alike hold to; we love to see a human we can look to. Listen, let’s be real about it, there is at least one person that you hold dear to your heart. He may faithfully teach the Word of God, or says many things that you just absolutely agree with, and because of this you only listen to them. You only take what they say as truth and anyone who says anything against them (biblical or not), is shot down. I confess this sin of myself. Certain guys that have spoken truth in my life, I hold high regard in my heart, because they have been there for me. But is that how the Lord feels about it? Is He my Hero?

Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, [It is] truth. Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. (Isaiah 43:8-10)

Now who in this text wants to be believed? The Lord. Who wants to be the object of our affection? The Lord Jesus Christ, God Almighty; our Great Hope should be our Hero!!! Many times looking at the messenger is what we do. We look at the messenger and other messengers as well and get confused. Why? We are not focused on our Hero. We are not looking at the One who is with the Christian. For the non-Christian, he looks not at Christ for salvation. Why, because we are focused on our earthly heroes. Some may say, “I have no heroes?” You’re lying; there is someone in your life that you’ve looked at and hold in high regard. I said this very thing, and each time the Lord has shown me where I have fallen. Here’s a working definition of what hero means:

1. a man of distinguished courage or ability, admired for his brave deeds and noble qualities.

2. a person who, in the opinion of others, has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is regarded as a model or ideal: He was a local hero when he saved the drowning child.

Think about it for a minute now in Christendom. Is there anyone you have as a hero? Yes there is somewhere and the Lord says to get rid of them as you’re hero. Turn your worship to them off.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me; (Exodus 20:3-5)

How do you do that? Well, we take our focus off of the messengers and look to the one who sends the message! Look to the Sender, He’s your Hero, your Lord, and your Savior (Psalm 118:8-9).

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; (Hebrews 1:1-2)

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:1-2)

God now speaks through Jesus Christ. We have the scriptures to help us understand what Jesus Christ is saying (2 Timothy 3:16-17). No one else can do this. Am I saying God doesn’t send pastors? No, I am saying God sends them, but God should be the focus, not the pastor. This goes for you who have claimed certain men to be your internet pastor. No, no, the bible alone speaks to the things of Jesus Christ; focus on the Word of God, not the one sending the Word.

It is not wrong in listening to a pastor on the internet. There’s no sin in having favorites that you go to. But why are you listening to them? Who is your hero? Is it Jesus Christ or is it the pastor? You know, last night my wife was speaking to me about her desire to be more firm of what God says in the bible. She basically said she doesn’t want her beliefs to come from our pastor nor our church, but what Christ Jesus says in His Word. That’s the correct focus, that’s the Hero we should be looking to.

It’s sometimes difficult not to make a hero out of someone. This sinful country, which is full of hypocrisy and wickedness, needs some righteous men to stand up for the Lord Jesus Christ. There have been, and there will be until Christ Himself returns. But let’s not make man the truth, God is still on the throne. JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, He is our hero. AMEN!!!!

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people. [Which] when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard [of], they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out, And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein: (Acts 14:8-15)