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*Faithful to the End*
Six things that you should guard your heart against.
And to be forewarned is to be
forearmed.
But these six things… any one of them has the potential to cause a person to draw
back, to fall away, to give up.
*1.
Dwelling nostalgically on the past.*
Hebrews 11:13, talking about these great heroes of faith that made it all the way to the end.
These all died in faith.
My friend, that's the way to die.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were
assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the
earth.
14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland.
15 And truly if they had called to mind…
That means if they had rehearsed, if they had recollected.
…that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return.
16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country.
Therefore God is not ashamed to be
called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
I want you to just notice, in particular in verse 15, but it is true in verse 16, as well.
The word
"country" in your Bible will be italicized.
It is not in the same kind of print as the other words, and
the reason for that… any time you find an italicized word in your Bible, that is just an indication
that it is something that was not in the original text.
It is added by the translators, in their mind, for
clarity.
But because it wasn't part of the original text, they wanted to let you know that.
This
literally reads this way.
Verse 15, "Truly if they had called to mind that from which they had come
out of, they would have had opportunity to return."
The Amplified Bible puts it this way: "If they
had been thinking with homesick remembrance of that country from which they came out, they
would have had constant opportunity to return to it."
You listen to some believers talk and reminisce, and it is as if they are homesick for their old life.
They talk about the old days: "Oh, man, we used to get so wasted!
We used to rage!
And I had
this homegrown in my backyard, and we had all these women (or, I had all these boyfriends)," or
whatever it is, and people talk as if they are longing for the old life.
Friend, that is not a wise thing
to do.
If you do that, if you constantly rehearse the past, you will have constant opportunity to
return.
Don't be thinking about your old girlfriend!
Don't be thinking about your old boyfriend and
the stuff that you used to do!
I'm convinced that is why some people are always plagued by these opportunities to go back and
are constantly battered by temptations in certain areas because of what they fill their mind with.
They keep running these edited movies of the past, and they remember all of the pleasure and
none of the pain.
And, friend, that's what the devil will do.
He will remind you of all the pleasure of
sin but none of the pain.
It is sort of like the Israelites.
They got to reminiscing and thinking about all the leeks and the
garlic and the onions we had on the shores of the Nile River… and the fish we used to eat… Oh,
it was so good!
And they forgot they were slaves back there, and they had to make bricks.
Listen, you were a slave to sin in your old life.
There was no presence of God; there was no
peace.
But we tend to piece together… we embalm our past in honey and forget that underneath
is the stench of a corpse!
Some of you, you just need to stop the movie and burn the film!
And it's
your biggest problem.
You need to shut your mind to that kind of thinking because, my brother
and sister, this life is short.
We are sojourners and pilgrims here, and we need to set our affection
on things above… not on things of the earth… where Christ sits at the right hand of God, because
you died, and your life is hidden with Christ and God.
Don't go dreaming about the old time.
It
wasn't that good, anyway.
Yeah… "Oh, we used to rage with our friends!"
Yeah, and you used to throw up in the toilet and
pass out on somebody's bathroom floor, too!
It is only by the grace of God that you survived long
enough to get saved, but we tend to forget about that part of it.
*2.
Conflict.
Some people don't know how to cope with conflict.*
Look back with me in the Book of Matthew, chapter 10, verse 34… some very interesting
statements that fell from the lips of Jesus here.
Matthew 10:34,
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth.
I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
35 "For I have come to 'set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law';
36 "and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.'"
What do you think of that?
When you get saved, yes, peace comes into your heart; but you also
enter a conflict.
And sometimes it turns out to be those of your own family, those who are closest
to you.
Surprise, surprise!
Everybody is not going to be thrilled with your conversion.
Some of us
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