Don't Quit Before The Miracle Happens
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O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived:
Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed:
I am in derision daily,
Every one mocketh me.
For since I spake, I cried out,
I cried violence and spoil;
Because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me,
And a derision, daily.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him,
Nor speak any more in his name.
But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones,
And I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
The Christian Who Will Not Quit
INTRODUCTION:
There can be no turning back now!
But the great temptation is to throw in the towel and give up.
Jeremiah tried to quit but his bones were set on fire by the word of the Lord.
Many today are discouraged and seem to want to give up and turn back.
Note some reasons why we can't quit:
You can’t turn back because...
OUR CALLING IS A HIGH AND HOLY CALLING
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
You can’t turn back because...
THE LOVE OF GOD CONSTRAINS US
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
You can’t turn back because...
THE GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES COMPASS US
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 us,
You can’t turn back because...
THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH TO QUIT
Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.
"But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord."
You can’t turn back because...
THE SPIRIT MAKETH INTERCESSION WITH GROANINGS
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
You can’t turn back because...
WE ARE TOO FAR IN DEBT TO THE LORD
I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
"I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise."
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?