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Introduction
I am an admirer of the minds behind TV commercials.
Their ability to impress the mind in just a few seconds is amazing.
There is one that is stuck in my mind, the one of the Energizer Bunny… it keeps going!
Have you ever felt like unable to keep on going?
Exhausted?... Tired?... Frustrated?...
Frustrated?...
During those moments you wish you were like the "Energizer Bunny"...
What is the key to keep on going?
COMMITMENT
COMMITMENT
Background
If there was a man who could speak to us about commitment that was Paul: he suffered prison, stoning, 3 beatings, 3 shipwrecks, criticized, accused…, but he kept on going!
Was he crazy or what?
That's enough to quit!
What kept him going?
COMMITMENT!
Knowledge worth nothing if there's no commitment.
Training is useless if there's no commitment.
Desires amount to nothing if there's no commitment.
Spiritual gifts are not productive if there's no commitment.
Paul was a committed believer, and that's why God used him so much and so powerfully.
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YOU MUST HAVE COMMITMENT BECAUSE...
IT IS THE KEY FOR MATURITY.
We are earthen vessels (v.
7) that become harder when submitted to fire.
Knowing which are the disciplines of a disciple will not make you a disciple or mature.
Commitment is what will make the difference!
If you are committed to mature, you will practice them.
You will not need to be constantly reminded by the pastor.
Overcoming trials and tribulation.
“afflicted.. perplexed.. persecuted.. struck down” 8-9
Those words point to trials and tribulations!
There is no maturity without trials...
But we cannot stand them without commitment.
Many throw the towel when the going gets tough...
The result of trials is maturity.
You got to be committed to stand firm.
the result of trials is maturity.
You got to be committed to stand firm.
Letting Christ to live our lives.
“so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.”
10b
That's discipleship, takes time, effort.
- Lack of commitment is the reason why churches are full of believers but so empty of disciples...
Lack of commitment is the reason why churches are full of believers but so empty of disciples...
- They are not committed to let Christ to control their lives.
Maturity is the life of Jesus manifested in our body.
IT IS THE KEY FOR SUCCESS.
Success in school.
It has been proved that committed student are more successful than bright or talented students.
Dropouts have lack of commitment, not lack of talents.
If there is commitment there is a way...
Success in marriage.
When romance ends commitment will sustain you.
When the idea of divorce shows up, commitment will destroy it...
If you think love is everything in marriage you are wrong; commitment is what it makes the difference.
- When the kids drive u crazy...
Success in ministry.
If you think ministry is easy you're wrong!
There are no easy ministries!
There is not enough help, not enough money, lot of problems, discouragement, frustration, lot of work, people won't understand you.
You'll need commitment to be faithful, to survive the loneliness of ministry, and the lack of appreciation.
- Commitment to preach the Gospel v.13....
Zuizendorf said to a Moravian brother at Herrnhut, “Can you go as a missionary to Greenland?” “Yes.”
Can you go tomorrow?”
“If the cobbler has finished my shoes I can go tomorrow.”
That was a quick, willing-hearted response.
Wesley said: “If I had three hundred men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and him crucified, I would set the world on fire.”
“Send us men,” said a heathen convert, “with hot hearts.”
ILUST.
HOT HEARTS (EOI 7671)
Successful ministers are committed ministers.
IT IS THE KEY FOR PERSEVERANCE.
“Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is renewed day by day.” 16
Commitment keeps us going.
The church has been entrusted with the task of preaching the gospel to this world, and she should not quit doing it, even if she believe that the task has been accomplished.
We should learn from the slogan of a Black Church in Kansas City:
A Negro Church in Kansas City has as its slogan:
“Wake up, sing up, preach up, pray up and pay up, but never give up or let up or back up or shut up until the cause of Christ in this church and in the world is built up.”
ILUST.
NEVER SHUT UP (EOI 7674)
If the people is not committed, defeat is certain.
If the Church is not committed, failure is also certain.
In October and November of 1971, The Reader’s Digest published two articles by Clarence W. Hall on the activities of the World Council of Churches.
In the first article Mr. Hall made this statement: “Preaching the gospel of racial justice, the World Council of Churches is using church power and church funds to back insurrection in the United States and Africa.
In the early 1970s hundreds of thousands of dollars were given by the council to terrorist groups, some of them avowedly Communists who were engaged in guerrilla activity.
While supporting such radical activities, it is a well-known fact that the council did everything in its power to hinder the American government in its involvement in the Vietnam war.”
Without commitment, there’s no need for renewal.
Lack of commitment results in conformism.
I am OK like this!
I do not need to change anything.
Renewal implies making changes, becoming new!
IT IS THE KEY FOR LASTING MINISTRY.
Based on commitment to Christ.
Statistics tells us that the average pastorate last 2-3 years.
As soon as the pastor becomes disenchanted with the people (or viceversa), he starts looking for another job or the members for another church.
What is the problem?
Lack of commitment on both parts.
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