To This End

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The work of ministry is not for the timid, the weak, or the lazy. It is labor, it is work. This work is not a popularity contest. To be in minstry means that not everyone will like you. If you are in ministry long enough people will let you know just how important you are. One man told me "Pastor the reason I came to this church was because of you." That made me feel good. On the eve of his departure from the church the same man said "The reason that I am leaving this church is because of you." See how important I was. I made people come and I made people go. Ministry is not radical but is is counter-cultural. The world will never understand the preacher. The message of the preacher doesn't come from the local news, it comes from God. God does not change to fit the culture. He is the same yesterday, today and forevermore. He is our God. We trust Him.

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Why preach when people don’t want to hear?

1 Timothy 4:10–11 KJV 1900

10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. 11 These things command and teach.

Ministry is work

We labour because

++We trust in God

What does it mean to trust in God?

Proverbs 3:5 KJV 1900

5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding.

Trust is

++An expression of confidence

John 11:21 KJV 1900

21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Trust is

++An expression of confidence

++Insight beyond the visible circumstances

++The foundation of faith

Hebrews 11:6 KJV 1900

6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

We labour because

++We trust in God

++Our God lives

Acts 2:23–24 KJV 1900

23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

1 Corinthians 15:54–55 KJV 1900

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

We labour because

++We trust in God

++Our God lives

++He is the Savior of all

John 3:16 KJV 1900

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV 1900

14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

Colossians 2:13 KJV 1900

13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

We labour because

++We trust in God

++Our God lives

++He is the Savior of all

++We Believe

John 7:37–39 KJV 1900

37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

1 Timothy 4:10–11 NKJV

10 For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe. 11 These things command and teach.

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