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"THE HONOR OF WANTING TO QUIT"
"THE HONOR OF WANTING TO QUIT"
But if I say I'll never mention the LORD or speak in His name, His word burns in my heart like a fire.
It's like a fire in my bones!
I am worn out trying to hold it in!
I can't do it!
INTRODUCTION
Jeremiah chapter 20 and verse 9. Jeremiah is speaking.
If you read before and after this he is discouraged, he is lamenting, he is down in the dumps, he wants to quit.
He feels like everybody in this building has felt.
Take your Bibles and turn with me to Jeremiah chapter 20.
Stick with me because I really have got something from God, something I think you have never heard before in your life.
Jeremiah chapter 20 and verse 9. Jeremiah is speaking.
If you read before and after this he is discouraged, he is lamenting, he is down in the dumps, he wants to quit.
He feels like everybody in this building has felt.
Tonight, I'm going to preach a message that will help you.
I want to speak to you on the most unusual subject you have ever heard, it is entitled "The Honor of Wanting to Quit."
Last week was one of the greatest days in my life.
I will always remember as long as I live the service last week.
Folks when you rolled in that beautiful little vehicle and gave it to your pastor, that was what I was trying to keep you from doing, if you do not know it, Amen.
I warned you not to do it, I begged you not to do it.
I had promises, but our staff is not a promise keeper.
How many of you realize that?
That will never happen again, I have requested that it never happen again.
I am so thankful, I am grateful, friends.
I love you.
It is much easier for me to give a gift to Brother Booher and give a gift to another than to receive it myself.
I want to thank you, but I want to tell you what I thank you more for, I want to thank you for the love you showed when I got that.
It was as if you got it yourself.
If you had not acted that way I would have been sad.
That was a vehicle for you to show your love, the love is what mattered to me.
Although I am still grateful for that and I value it, it was your love that turned me on more than anything last week.
I'm going to repeat that, you heard me right.
Some of you say "What, 'The Honor of Wanting to Quit?'"
Some people can look at a pastor like he is pastoring a wonderful church like this, truly a great church under God, and you say, "That man, that evangelist, is a superhuman."
Or, "That pastor has to be a spiritual giant."
Sometimes people get a false conception of that individual.
Today I have come to shut out any false conceptions that you might have.
I have come to tell you how human the pastor is.
Someone said, "You get the privilege of running around with a lot of great men of God." Yes.
I'm not a great man of God - I do not need to tell you that, you know it - but I get to hobnob with some of them.
I think the reason why is God wanted me to come back and tell you how the great men are.
Someone said, "They must encourage you.
Their greatness must bless you and inspire you."
I say, "No, it's their humanity that inspires me.
It is their failure that I see that inspires me to know that if God can use them, He can use you."
Today I'm going to preach a message that will help you.
I want to speak to you on the most unusual subject you have ever heard, it is entitled "The Honor of Wanting to Quit."
I'm going to repeat that, you heard me right.
Some of you say "What, 'The Honor of Wanting to Quit?'"
Let me start my message off today by making mention of those who wanted to quit.
It is like the Hall of Fame in the Bible.
It is like the Hall of Fame in history, when you talk about the people that wanted to quit.
Jeremiah, in our text, wanted to quit.
As a matter of fact he went to the woods, he wanted to get a little cabin.
He wanted to quit the ministry, just get a fishing hole and a window that he could throw the line out and just fish all day long.
The truth is that he did that for a while, but the Bible said that the word of God burned in his bones like a fire.
He said, "I cannot constrain myself."
Abraham, the friend of God, the man that walked with God, Abraham wanted to quit.
Depression came, recession came, he wanted to go to Egypt and scrap it all, and he did.
Peter, who walked on water, wanted to quit.
When Jesus was crucified Peter was mourning at the fire.
He denied the faith, he denied the Lord, he denied his church, and even cursed God.
He had a desire to quit.
Thomas, who later died as a martyr wanted to quit.
"He could not believe," he said.
And yes, he saw the scars in the hands of Jesus Christ.
The disciples, the twelve that were chosen to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world, the Bible said at Calvary they forsook him, and they fled.
Jesus said to them, "Will you also go away?"
Noah wanted to quit.
Moses wanted to quit.
Daniel wanted to quit.
Time and time again the great Charles Hadden Spurgeon, who built one of the greatest churches and was the prince of all preachers, wanted to quit.
Martin Luther had a vision of the reality of God, and the grace of God.
He fell upon his knees of St. Peter's Cathedral and said, "I will not recant, I will not renounce what I believe."
Yet in discouragement, in despair, he had severe seizures of depression, it made him want to quit.
John the Baptist, the Bible said of him,
"I tell you the truth, of all who have ever lived, none is greater than John the Baptist.
"There is no greater man born of woman than John the Baptist," only Jesus.
John the Baptist wanted to quit and even sent a runner to be sure that Jesus was the Son of God, while he was in prison.
He doubted his salvation.
Winston Churchill had serious bouts of depression, and again and again when you read his life story, he wanted to quit.
In fact all great men that I have ever known, and I have known many of these wonderful men, have told me there were times that they have considered quitting.
Even my Mentor Pastor Tommy Barnett has wanted to quit.
He said that when he left the church in Kansas City, the church that his dad pastored, It was a great church.
There was singing and worship and big things and faith was released, souls were getting saved.
has wanted to quit.
When I left the church in Kansas City, pastored by my dad...
It was a great church, much like this.
There was singing and worship and big things and faith was released, souls were getting saved.
He said I went to Davenport, Iowa with 76 of the meanest Christians you have ever seen in your life.
I wanted to quit.
He said I called my dad up and said, "Dad I must be out of God's will.
People are not being saved like they used to.
I want to come home."
He said, "Son if you're going to quit and go home, it will be like crawling out of the city in the sewer."
I decided that I did not want to do that, so I didn't quit.
Yes, I have wanted to quit and so have you.
So has anybody that has ever done anything for God.
Tonight, I want to make four statements about it.
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