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Growing up under my parents they would not let me quit anything.
I did not have to start some things but I could not quit what I started.
Of course some things were not optional as to wether or not I could do some things like going to church.
This was not an option no matter who the youth pastor was or if my friends were there.
I could not quit anything I started.
I remember that I had decided I was smarter than my mother in the 4th grade.
I had started choir in 4th grade.
You have to understand that I have absolutely no musical ability whatsoever.
I don’t even play the radio well.
I am bad with music.
I wanted out of choir so I thought I could fool my mother.
My mom would pick me up after school and so I told my mom that we did not have choir practice anymore.
I remember I would get in the car and my mom would say I thought you had choir practice today and I would say with great confidence Nope!
So this went on for a few weeks and then my mom got an invitation to a concert at the local mall and guess who’s choir would be performing?
I told my mom that we were done.
So guess who went to the choir concert.
You guessed it this guy.
I had missed all the practices and so I had no clue what the words was.
Now let me remind you that I have no musical talent whatsoever so I struggled to stand up there and fake it.
I was trying to keep up with the songs they were singing but I am sure it looked like a bad film were the lips are off with the voice.
I learned a lesson that day that never again would I try to quit something that I had started.
I learned the importance of perseverance.
Perseverance.
Action or condition of steadfastness.
OT Israel waited generations for fulfillment of promises which many believers never lived to see (Heb 11:1, 13, 21, 22, 39).
The promise to Abraham sustained hope for centuries before Canaan was possessed.
stead•fast \ˈsted-ˌfast also -fəst\ adjective
[Middle English stedefast, from Old English stedef+st, from stede + f+st fixed, fast] before 12th century
1 a: firmly fixed in place: IMMOVABLE
b: not subject to change 〈the steadfast doctrine of original sin—Ellen Glasgow〉
Last week, we looked at wide is the road that leads to destruction and narrow is the road that leads to life.
We know that more people will choose destruction over life.
We also saw that this narrow road is filled with bumps, curves, hills, potholes, and is a difficult road.
I must say that I am fully aware that this narrow road brings life.
I am also aware that the wide road that leads to destruction is not easy and many of you will testify to this fact.
The point is that submitting to the Lordship of Jesus Christ does not bring about a rosy life of ease and that following Christ is hard.
So if we know that following Christ is narrow and hard and that many will choose destruction what are we to keep doing as far as making disciples goes?
Jesus in says this.
Luke 8
So again we see the narrow path when it comes to sowing seeds.
Some seed could fall on a path, birds could eat it, fall in the rocks, fall among the thorns or it could fall on good ground.
1 in 4 chance as Jesus describes were this could fall.
Perseverance
Romans 5:1-
Some of the important Greek manuscripts read, “Let us have peace (echōmen) with God.”
This seems to be the preferred reading.
If so, then the sense is, “Let us keep on having (in the sense of enjoying) peace with God.” Peace has been made by God through our Lord Jesus Christ (cf.
Eph.
2:14a), which fact is demonstrated by God’s justification.
A believer is not responsible for having peace in the sense of making it but in the sense of enjoying it
Rejoice in our afflictions because affliction produces endurance or perseverance.
Perseverance: the action of being fixed in place or immovable
The lack of perseverance is an epidemic in our community.
Don’t believe me just look around.
Still don’t believe me try to start something and ask others to join you.
See how many are still with you at the end of the project verses when you started the project.
Every year our baseball roster swells and we have many kids start the season with us but when the kid starts to fail at the sport or they tell mom or dad one time that they don’t like something then they are allowed to quit.
Perseverance is the action of being fixed in place or immovable.
says afflictions produce endurance/perseverance produces proven character and proven character produces hope.
Notice the chain of actions: Afflictions, Endurance/perseverance, character, to hope
Hope lacks because afflictions come and perseverance is never completed to bring about character that produces hope.
Everyone Perseveres in something.
You either persevere in obedience or you persevere in disobedience.
Romans
You can become a fixed quitter and that in everything you do you quit or you can become a fixed finisher in that in everything you do you make sure to finish.
Everyone perseveres in something!
James 1:
James 1:2-
This week Julius at the end of the week as we were in prayer began to speak in to my life and I believe it is so fitting for this message.
He looked at me and said Pastor Jonathan you do understand that when you take test the teacher is silent.
He says, you know the teacher prepares you for the test and then passes out the test then goes back to their desk and sits down at the desk and is silent.
He said sometimes you may think the Lord is being silent when he passes out the test but the Lord is near.
He is present.
James says consider it great joy whenever you face trials of many kinds knowing that the testing of your faith produces perseverance or endurance.
(The ability to be immovable or steadfast)
You will be complete mature and not lacking anything
A man who endures trials is blessed!
When he passes the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.
The faith chapter and trials faced by the “Heroes” of the faith
Abel died because of his sacrifice
Hebrews
He did not know where he was going
Hebrews 11:
She was past the age
Hebrews 11:
chose to suffer with the people fo God rather than to enjoy the pleasure of sin
Hebrews
Seven days most of us have a hard time spending time in prayer after 5 minutes
Hebrews 11:32-
Hebrews 12:
Lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us.
Run the race with endurance or perseverance(Steadfastness or the ability to not be moved)
Adam, Kyle and myself have been working out.
We work out in the mornings and sometimes in the evenings.
Last week, on our warm up Adam suggested we take a weight with us and pass it around as we ran.
It was 25lbs.
Running with the weight slowed me down anytime I had it.
As soon as I would pass it off, I could run faster.
He then had another bright Idea.
He said lets take 10lb weights and put one in each hand and we would throw punches with those 10lb weights for like 50 yards.
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