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A man walks into a diner carrying a dog in his arms.
He places the dog on the counter and proclaims that the dog can talk.
The man says he has one hundred dollars he’s willing to bet anyone who says he can’t.
The waiter quickly takes the bet, and the dog’s owner looks at the dog and asks him, “What’s the thing on top of a building that keeps the sun and rain out?”
The dog answers, “Roof.”
The waiter says, “Are you kidding?
I’m not paying.”
The dog’s owner says, “Double or nothing, and I’ll ask him a different question.”
The waiter agrees, and the owner turns to his dog and asks, “Who was the greatest baseball player ever?”
The dog answers with a muffled, “Ruth.”
With that the waiter picks them both up and throws them out on the street.
As they bounce on the sidewalk in front of the diner, the dog looks at his owner and says, “DiMaggio?”
Christians need to stand firm for God.
We can’t waiver in our commitment to Christ or the truths that are in the Word of God.
Compromise should not be allowed when it comes to our faith and obedience to Christ.
We must focus on what matters.
Jesus told His disciples that we need to give up our own ways and will to follow Him.
He asked His followers:
What matters most in this life?
Are we focused on what matters?
Or are we upset when things don’t go our way?
I’m telling you the truth, we need to be standing on a firm foundation.
We need to be clear eyed knowing what matters most.
Sometimes while we are waiting on God we can forget what matters most.
We can get distracted by life or the circumstances we find ourselves in.
That’s kind of where the Jewish believers found themselves after Jesus ascended to heaven.
The writer of Hebrews was writing to a defeated people.
They had sold everything and were waiting for Jesus to return at any second.
When He didn’t come back some people started to lose faith.
When we get to chapter 4 of Romans the writer is telling them how to stand firm.
He is saying, remember Jesus.
We saw Him with our own eyes.
He was alive.
He taught us, He performed miracles, He fulfilled all the prophecies, He is the Messiah we have been waiting for all these generations.
He reminded those wavering believers that Jesus was the one who rose from the dead!
He told them not to forget!
He tells them to hold firmly to what they believe.
To remember that Jesus is in heaven.
He sees their situation and understands the struggles because he endured the same things.
He reminded them that they had an inheritance.
They could stand in the presence of God because of the price Christ paid.
They could stand firm knowing they had recieved mercy, and will receive grace to ENDURE to the end.
They had been given a promise!
Let’s read what he wrote.
Now, let me tell you, if that doesn’t get you excited then you’re not standing firm.
Because standing firm is KNOWING that we are standing on Jesus!
He brings us hope!
He is our foundation.
We have a promise of inheritance.
In your life you might be tempted to question God.
You might be like those early followers saying, I have given EVERYTHING for the gospel but things aren’t going my way.
Where is Jesus?!
He said He was coming back, and right now I need Him more than ever.
I am going to encourage you, the same way Hebrews 4 encouraged those early believers, to stand firm in your faith.
Jesus is working.
He has an agenda.
There is a timeline.
Things need to be fulfilled.
Just because we can’t see it, doesn’t mean things aren’t in His control.
Things might seem hard, but we have Christ.
Present circumstances don’t dictate our future.
How can we trust in God even when He isn’t working in our schedule?
There is something really important you can do while you’re standing firm on what you believe.
You can SHUT THE DOOR.
Shut the doors of disobedience, doubt, desperation, deception.
In my personal study last week I came across this little phrase 4 times in one day, in the old and new testament, and I believe it was God speaking to me about how to stand firm in faith.
The phrase I keep reading was “shut the door”.
To me, there’s something important about shutting doors in our life.
If we follow the example in these four scriptures then we will be able to stand firm in our faith.
I have to read 35 verses tonight to establish context.
Here’s 2 Kings 4 in the NLT
2 Kings 4:1–35(NLT)
1 One day the widow of a member of the group of prophets came to Elisha and cried out, “My husband who served you is dead, and you know how he feared the Lord.
But now a creditor has come, threatening to take my two sons as slaves.”
2 “What can I do to help you?”
Elisha asked.
“Tell me, what do you have in the house?”
“Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied.
3 And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors.
4 Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you.
Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each one aside when it is filled.”
5 So she did as she was told.
Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another.
6 Soon every container was full to the brim!
“Bring me another jar,” she said to one of her sons.
“There aren’t any more!” he told her.
And then the olive oil stopped flowing.
7 When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on what is left over.”
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8 One day Elisha went to the town of Shunem.
A wealthy woman lived there, and she urged him to come to her home for a meal.
After that, whenever he passed that way, he would stop there for something to eat.
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12 He said to his servant Gehazi, “Tell the woman from Shunem I want to speak to her.”
When she appeared,
13 Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tell her, ‘We appreciate the kind concern you have shown us.
What can we do for you?
Can we put in a good word for you to the king or to the commander of the army?’ ” “No,” she replied, “my family takes good care of me.”
14 Later Elisha asked Gehazi, “What can we do for her?” Gehazi replied, “She doesn’t have a son, and her husband is an old man.”
15 “Call her back again,” Elisha told him.
When the woman returned, Elisha said to her as she stood in the doorway,
16 “Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!” “No, my lord!” she cried.
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