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When the going gets tough … quit?
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Back in 1918 the Dodgers called up a player from the minors to pitch in part of a doubleheader game.
His name was Harry Heitmann.
His dream was to play in the big leagues, as part of a major league team.
He had worked his way through the minors and now finally made it big time.
On July 27, 1918, his call came, and he made his major league debut against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
His dream didn’t turn out very well.
He faced 4 batters.
2 of them tripled and 2 of them singled.
After the fourth batter got on base, Harry had enough, and he walked of the field and headed to the showers.
He left the stadium and joined the Navy.
As far as his baseball record goes, those 4 batters all scored, so Heitmann retired with an ERA of infinity.
Things certainly were tough for Harry Heitmann.
He faced hard times.
And when they came … he quit.
We will face hard times, and the question is how will you respond to those hard times.
Often, the temptation is to run away or quit.
To give up.
To go back to something that you are more familiar with.
But what you are familiar with is not always the right thing or a good thing.
Israel is a great example of this.
After the 10th plague in Egypt, Israel was released from their slavery and headed towards the Red Sea.
They got to the Red Sea, and looked behind them and saw Pharaoh and his army coming.
Do you remember Israel’s response?
They didn’t cry out to God for helo.
Their response is recorded in , “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness?
… For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
When hard times came, they seriously considered going back to Egypt and becoming slaves again.
A little later, Israel made it to the edge of the Promised Land, and they sent 12 spies into the land to spy it out.
The report of the land was great.
It was a land flowing with milk and honey.
But then they saw the people that lived there, they were said to be giants.
And again the people grumbled.
says, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt!”
Again, they thought things would be better back in slavery, rather then live in the land that God promised.
Why Egypt?
Why this temptation to go back into slavery?
Because it’s something they are familiar with.
It’s something that they knew.
It’s not a good thing, but they know it.
The same thing can happen to us.
You are turning to Christ, and things are starting to get hard.
Temptation gets harder.
There is a fight for purity.
You are now wrestling with sin.
Life gets lonelier.
You don’t join your old friends in sin.
And you begin to want to go back to what you are familiar with.
You feel the pull into old sins.
Maybe you just want to run away from everything.
How do you continue?
This is something similar to what the Galatians are facing.
The Judaizers have told them they need to go back under the law.
This reminds me of people who have grown up in Catholicism.
They’ve been away from it, but life has started getting a little stale.
There is this tug to go back to Catholicism’s mystical ways.
They remember the smells of incense and the robes of the priests and they want to go back to it.
They forget the grace that they’ve received in Christ.
They forget learning that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone.
Their fondness for tradition, overshadows the truth they know in Jesus, so they go back.
In our text, Paul is pleading with the Galatians to remember something.
To remember:
What they’ve experienced.
What they’ve been rescued from.
And remember, those who’ve labored over them.
This text should serve as an encouragement, for those of you who struggle.
You’re like Harry Heitmann, and you’ve been knocked around, and you want to quit.
You are like the Israelites and you’re tempted to go back into the slavery of your sin.
You miss things that you know and you want to go back into them.
That’s what this is about.
First, Remember what you’ve experienced.
You see this in verse 9, “But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back ...”
What have you experienced in Christ?
You are known by God.
That’s a pretty wonderful promise.
You are known by God.
Being known by God means something.
Paul pastorally is writing to the Galatians, and reminding them of what they have experienced.
Conversion is not just a moment where you make a decision.
But conversion is really the work of God in your life.
Back in he says that they had begun by the Spirit.
Conversion happens because of the Spirit doing something within you.
Before you could ever rightly respond, the Holy Spirit had to do something within your life.
God had done something to you.
What is it that He has done to you?
In verse 9 it says that they are known by God.
To be known by God implies a close intimate knowledge and friendship.
To be known by God in this sense is to be loved by God.
We often talk about the love of God, but what does it mean to be loved by God?
First it means that He knows you.
Have you ever met someone famous?
This is someone that you admire.
Maybe you see them on TV or in a sport.
As a kid, I used to like getting autographs.
I met Dennis Miller from Saturday Night Live, and had him sign a program from the function we were at.
My favorite encounter was Tony Gwynn from the San Diego Padres.
I had him sign a couple baseball cards.
But if you were to find Dennis Miller or Tony Gwynn, and ask them if they knew me … sadly, they wouldn’t even know my name.
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