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Are you handing down a legacy of righteousness and intolerance toward sin? Or are you teaching others to make peace treaties with sin?

Just as Solomon wouldn’t tolerate rebels in his kingdom, so to will our heavenly King Jesus irradiate threats to His Kingdom.

(contributed by Owen Lynch)

As we look around, there is no shortage of opportunities for us to manifest the life of the Spirit in us.

What we lack in courage and wisdom God promised to supply.

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1 Chronicles 11:22-25 lists The four feats of Benaiah - Slaying the two sons of Moab, Slaying the lion in a snowy pit, Slaying the giant Egyptian, Slaying the enemies of Solomon. The full account of these stories leave was with several important principals and in particular, how to deal with sin in our lives.

We see in Benaiah a model of spiritual mortification - to put (sin) to death.
We have been redeemed, but their remains in the dark recesses of the soul, sin.
Sin in our lives in the enemy of our King, and therefore we act like Benaiah and put it to death.
We must deal with our remaining sin with a holy anger, we cannot be passive about it, making peace treaties with it.
Moabite like sexual seduction – deal with it like Benaiah and Phinehas. Satan still uses this tactic, to destroy God’s people.
God’s standard applys to our thoughts as well as our actions.

Benaiah was indeed a mighty man of God, because he had a heart like his King. He saw and knew the deeds of David and set out to imitate him. We too must set our whole being in imitating our King Jesus.

Great men are greatly influenced by the great men they are descended from. What kind of heritage are you passing on?

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Benaiah is one such hero; he was one of the King David’s mighty men. He was a holy warrior in whom the Spirit of God operated and who lived his life to serve his King.

Beniah’s pedigree and heritage

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts (1 Chr 11:22a)

Jehoiada was a priest and led 3700 priest warriors 12:27, Jehoiada was the chief priest 27:5

We don’t often think of priest in such roles, but in the history of Israel, these priests were some of the mightiest warriors, for the glory of God.

Benaiah is certainly of great pedigree. If we trace his heritage back further we find that his great, great, great, great, great grandfather was Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest.

In Numbers 25, we see that Balaam used Moabite women to seduces Israel into sexual immorality. A man of Israel takes one of these women into a tent before all of the congregation. A plague had come on the camp because of these immoral acts. But Phinehas seeing this, stays the plague, by going into the tent and pinning them together with his javelin.

Benaiah’s fierceness for the cause of righteousness can be traced way back. It is often true that great men are greatly influenced by the great men in their lives.