Why Quit? (2)

INTRODUCTION

The train on my way to church: Things to quit

Bingo machine: Things not to do, Drugs, alcohol etc

people turn to quit on God:

2 Corinthians 4:8–9 KJV 1900

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Ruth and Ophrah moab

looking back: Isreal back

Isaiah 43:18 KJV 1900

Remember ye not the former things, Neither consider the things of old.

seek encouragement from the world

2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV 1900

While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

unmet expectations

Isaiah 55:8 KJV 1900

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Lack of vision

Proverbs 29:18 KJV 1900

Where there is no vision, the people perish: But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Romans 8:35–39 KJV 1900

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Luke 9:62 KJV 1900

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.