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We are in a pandemic… which leads me to wonder hmmmm… what is the worst pandemic ever? What was the one that just ravaged and killed with a vengeance? Actually pretty easy… I don’t know what the name of it was, but I am sure it was the one that killed the dinosaurs.
Skipping the last 2 lies… I don’t like them, they bore me. So lets move on!
New York city had a tough time between 1804 and 19...
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We are in a pandemic… which leads me to wonder hmmmm… what is the worst pandemic ever? What was the one that just ravaged and killed with a vengeance? Actually pretty easy… I don’t know what the name of it was, but I am sure it was the one that killed the dinosaurs.
Skipping the last 2 lies… I don’t like them, they bore me. So lets move on!
New York city had a tough time between 1804 and 1918. They had the following epidemics run amok and cause serious damage:
Yellow Fever, 3 outbreaks - 445 deaths
Typhoid fever, 1 outbreak - 200 deaths
Influenza, 1 outbreak -12,562 deaths
Smallpox, 2 outbreaks - 7,044 deaths
Cholera, 6 outbreaks - 13,210 deaths
What is an outbreak?
An outbreak is called an epidemic when there is a sudden increase in cases. As COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it became an epidemic. Because the disease then spread across several countries and affected a large number of people, it was classified as a pandemic.
There was an OUTBREAK that caused an epidemic if you might call it that in Scripture.
1 Samuel 17
David kills Goliath and the Israeli army joins in the fight. What do we see here? We see one mans actions breaking out into courage for many other men… they in turn take action and take on the enemy?
51 David ran and stood over him. He took hold of the Philistine’s sword and drew it from the sheath. After he killed him, he cut off his head with the sword.
When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran. 52 Then the men of Israel and Judah surged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath[f] and to the gates of Ekron. Their dead were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron. 53 When the Israelites returned from chasing the Philistines, they plundered their camp.
But you say… yeah but this was David. Wait just a second, lets not forget that at this point David is a nobody. Don’t believe me? Lets look a few verses down
…55 As Saul watched David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is that young man?”
Abner replied, “As surely as you live, Your Majesty, I don’t know.”
56 The king said, “Find out whose son this young man is.”
A nobody kid facing a giant. Starts a pandemic of courage amongst the other men.
He was unknown, unprepared except with a sling (his weapon of choice) but he was willing to take a stand and run headlong into the danger zone.
What is your weapon of choice?
Maybe its a skill, a natural gift, money, time, joy… whatever God has equipped you with how about running into danger with it.
What if you - the unknown guy becomes his own pandemic. Starts and outbreak simply by taking a stand a chance a risk.
you know the real problem with most people? They are waiting to ride the coattails of other people. They are waiting for a David to step up and win the big one so they can run along with him. But we need Davids NOW! We need all men everywhere to start an outbreak.
Maybe its like this. You start going to work early… about 30 minutes. You walk around your office building and just simply pray for your co-workers. If someone asks what you are doing - you…. wait for it… you tell them! Maybe they laugh at you… maybe they join you. But you start your own outbreak. In all you do seek to step out for God.
