While we are not suffering physical wounds, there are many with spiritual wounds. What can we do with our spiritual wounded warriors?

1. Are you a Wounded Warrior?
Galatians 6:14-17

2. Wounded Warrior Project
● Support for soldiers as they try to return to
civilian life
– More seriously wounded survive because of
advances in treatment
– Many are wounded emotionally – PTSD
– Also harmed are marriages, family, employment,
finances and spiritual

3. Paul was a wounded warrior
● We fight a spiritual war –
● 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 3 For though we walk in
the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal
but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds

4. Paul was a wounded warrior
● 2 Corinthians 11:23-27 23 Are they ministers of
Christ?--I speak as a fool--I am more: in labors
more abundant, in stripes above measure, in
prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From
the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus
one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods; once
I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a
night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 in
journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of
robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils
of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the
wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among
false brethren; 27 in weariness and toil, in

5. We might be a wounded warrior
● Galatians 6:14-17 14 But God forbid that I
should boast except in the cross of our Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been
crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in
Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision avails anything, but a new
creation. 16 And as many as walk according to
this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and
upon the Israel of God. 17 From now on let no
one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks
of the Lord Jesus.

6. When Wounded - - -
● STAY FOCUSED
● Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should
boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to
me, and I to the world.
● Keep the focus on Christ, the cross, heaven
● Hebrews 12:2 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 has sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God.

7. When Wounded - - -
● COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS
● Allow the negative to grab us and it will swallow
us up.
● Remember to be thankful.
● Colossians 3:15 And let the peace of God rule
in your hearts, to which also you were called in
one body; and be thankful.
● Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do in word
or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,
giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

8. When Wounded - - -
● LOOK TO SERVE
● Paul kept on going – wounded, beaten, stoned,
in jail, run out of town, faced wild animals,
suffered shipwreck BUT kept going.
● We must do the same.
● Jesus said, “It is more blessed to give than to
receive.” (Acts 20:35)
● We were created for His workmanship
(Ephesians 2:10)

9. When Wounded - - -
● REMEMBER THE MEASURE
● God demands faithfulness
● 1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in
stewards that one be found faithful.
● There is no quota – Just keep on – continue in
good works
● Not a certain number of converts – just keep
planting and watering (1 Corinthians 3:6)

10. When Wounded - - -
● WE KNOW THE END
● No matter the pain or stress
● No matter how wounded we are
● We know the outcome is VICTORY!
● Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their
testimony, and they did not love their lives to
the death.

11. Are you a wounded warrior?
● ARE YOU A SOLDIER OF
JESUS CHRIST?
● ARE YOU A
FAITHFUL SOLDIER?
● WILL YOU SHARE IN
THE VICTORY?