13 Jul Will You Finish Well?
Preacher Huijun - 16 July 2015
God Is Worthy To Be Praised
How are you looking at yourself today? As a child of God, redeemed by God with a heavy price through the Holy Son Jesus Christ, do we still often look at ourselves through our naked eyes and feelings that fluctuate today? When Zechariah's heart started to grow cold towards the promise of God because of the many unfulfilled prayers, God was still faithful and preparing the greatest blessing for him that transcended all his physical conditions - a blessed son, John the baptist. Like Zechariah, we also often lose hope in God in various circumstances, for we are always deceived into seeing ourselves outside the covenant, and narrow-mindedly, when God is still working mightily at the background to carry His perfect will to completion through our conditions. Despite our narrow-mindedness, Holy spirits is still empowering us both strongly and passively so that we will not lose faith. If we start to pray according to the truth today, we will be guided by the Holy Spirit again to look at ourselves through the lens of God and His covenant, instead of our micro circles of thoughts, emotions and desires today. Indeed God is worthy to be praised, not only "did He rescue us from the hand of our enemies, He also enables us to serve him without fear in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.”
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Are we doing well?
1) Am I closer to God than half a year ago?
2) Have I allowed any weakness or sin to fester without dealing with it?
3) How have I stretched my faith this year?
4) How about my relationships with others?
Obstacles to finishing well:
- <Heb 12:1> “…let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us”
1) Sin.
- “Fruitfulness” ≠ Holiness
- Holiness > Outcomes
- Battle sin
- Don’t hide
2) “Everything that hinders”.
- May not be outright sin
- Complacency
- Indifference
- Laziness
How can we finish well then?
1) The grace of God above all else.
- <1 Co 15:10> But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
2) Daily “uncompromised” time with God.
- Usually fall not suddenly but bit by bit.
- Daily doses of God’s word and intimate prayers.
3) Offer ourselves as daily living sacrifices to God.
- The power to do so comes from remembering God’s mercy on us.
4) The support of the body of Christ.
- <2 Ti 2:22> “Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
5) Always carry an eternal perspective.
- Learn to number our days <Ps 90:12>, so that we can live wisely.
Two Sauls:
King Saul- Started well, ended bad
Saul/Paul-Bad start, finished well
“It is more important to finish well than to start well.”
“No one finishes well by accident, it comes with prayerful, deliberate efforts.”
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