Will You Finish Well?

13 Jul Will You Finish Well?

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Preacher Huijun - 26 June 2014

Receive Added Grace By Responding To God-Given Grace

Salvation is God-driven, it is God who chose us before the creation of the world and personally revealed Himself to us so that we can hear and believe in the truth. However, sometimes, we tend to compromise with our flesh, thinking that since God is the one who saves us, there's nothing we need to do anymore because God will do all. While God's love to us is irrevocable, to enjoy this grace and anointing from God to the fullest, children of God need to participate in this relationship by reciprocating (obeying) to God, completing the whole course of our faith and enjoy added grace. Through the message today, may we see the Eli in us (although the truth was made known to him, he remained indifferent and did not take the word seriously) and trigger the desire in us to want to be like Samuel (believe and ready to obey) more and more in each day of our lives.

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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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Huijun serves as Secretary of The Blessed RUN Ministries. She is also the Preacher at The Life Church and Missions (Singapore). She graduated from Singapore Bible College and currently lives in Singapore with her husband, Chengji.

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