Endurance

I QUIT

Gym - Diets - Quitting Season - Jobs - Look like the victim - Relationship with God - Quit Cycle

God want’s to KILL the quit in our lives. He want’s you and I to be people of ENDURANCE.

Endurance is part of who God is. He is patient. He has perseverance. He has commitment. He want’s to turn you and I into people of ENDURANCE.

NOT SELF HELP - Godly Endurance.

NOAH

500 Years Old.

Not perfect - First black out drunk. - No perfect Bible people.

World is so bad in Gen 6:6 that God was sorry He made man - New ways to Sin

WHAT IS SIN

Missing the mark - Falling short - Sin Cycle

Sin - We get exposed - Suffering - Consequences - You can choose the sin but not the consequences

WE OVERCOME THE CYCLE WITH ENDURANCE

I want to give you some Godly qualities of Endurance

SOUL

God sized hole that can only be filled by God.

Genesis 6:7–8 NLT

7 And the Lord said, “I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing—all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them.” 8 But Noah found favor with the Lord.

FOUND FAVOR — IMPORTANT

First mention of Grace in the Bible. — Unmerited Favor - God’s riches at Christs Expense - Something we don’t deserve.

People were save din the NT — Doctrine of Salvation

Ephesians 2:8–10 (CSB)

8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

9 not from works, so that no one can boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

BY GRACE — THROUGH FAITH — FOR GOOD WORKS

TO have endurance we HAVE to have JESUS in our corner. Have you walked through the door?

John 10:9 NKJV

9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

We need that SOULD change and we need JESUS

STATUS

Genesis 6:9 (CSB)

9 ...Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries;

When we are saved, God see’s Jesus. His Righteousness is imputed on us. Not past future or present.

500 Years old and blameless the whole time. That’s commitment.

When you can look back and see faithfulness, a blameless lifestyle it pushes you forward, gives you endurance.

STEPS

Genesis 6:9 (NASB95)

9 ...Noah walked with God.

WALKING WITH DAD AFTER HE WAS SAVED

That’s what it looks like to walk with God

In step with him. Turning where He turns. Staying near him. Daily walking with Him.

That’s why we are doing this series.

Open God’s word and you will hear from God.

Hearing from God can feel confusing at times. Do we take the job or not? Decision or not?

We can rationalize both sides — How to we know which one God is in? WALK WITH GOD DAILY

NOW WE GOT THE SOUL — STATUS — THE STEPS — Let’s take some practical steps.

WE HAVE TO LOOK UP

Hebrews 12:1 NASB95

1 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

ALL OF HEAVEN IS CHEERING US ON

STEEL DE BORO STORY

Whenever you feel stuck, lost, confused, hard to keep going remember that all of heaven is rooting for you.

SHED SOME WEIGHT

Hebrews 12:1 (NASB95)

1… let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

We have to analyze and throw off that weight. Cast off that sin.

Everything either adds weight or takes off weight.

Everything inches you towards or away from Jesus.

GET ON THE BOAT

Commitment. A no matter what faith. It’s hard. Take the step and trust God.

Noah built a boat. It took him YEARS. 55-75 years. And he just had to trust. Go all in. And believe that if God Said it, then I’m going to have endurance and push through.

Following Jesus is not always comfortable but it is always better.