finishing well
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It is not how you begin that really matters but how you end.TRANSCRIPT
Heb 12:1 ¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept
the faith:(KJV)
Becoming a Christian is very Becoming a Christian is very easyeasyBut the difficult part is remaining as
one in a hostile worldChristianity is not a 100 meters dash!It is a marathon raceThe battle between Greece and
Persia in 490 B.C. and the origin of marathon races
Paul the Apostle was one man who finished well in the midst of great adversities
Many started well in scriptures but...Fetching water in a calabashAdam and EveMosesJoshuaDavidSolomonUzziahJosiahAnanias and SapphiraDemas
Great men in history started Great men in history started well but...well but...John Alexander McDowieJack CoeA. A. AllenCharles SempletonOthers
Many things can bring down a man of God but researchers note 3 notorious things:
1. Pride2. Women/Men3. Money
How then can we finish How then can we finish well?well?
LIKE THE APOSTLE PAUL DID IN 2 TIMOTHY 4:6-8
6 For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
2. Persevere
Those who give up never get to the finish line!
3. Keep looking unto Jesus
If you look at others you will be discouraged or loose faith!
The believer who finishes well is the one who fulfils God’s purpose on
earth and makes it to heaven at the end!
Remember there is a cloud of witnesses cheering us at the
grandstands of heaven!!