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My brothers and sisters in this journey of life we often find ourselves doing projects or trying to complete a task.

Sometimes the task that we are trying to complete takes longer than expected and we try to put it off and leave it incomplete because we have become comfortable with they way it looks.. Or we say to ourselves i’ll continue it tomorrow and that turns into a week and from a week it turns into a month and then it turns into years and the task is still not complete because of our comfort.

Comfort will cause you to be ok with not completing the task.

Comfort will cause you to become stagnant and you will continue to put the task off.

Not only is this happening in the natural but spiritually the church has become too comfortable with not growing.

The church is in a position now where they say they want more but they really don’t want more.

We continue to put off praying we continue to put off fasting we continue to put off staying in our word.

The church has become comfortable.

Just as we do in the natural we do the same thing in the spiritual we put the things of God to the Side and have become stagnant in our walk with Christ.

We must remember that being a christian is not about comfort.

When you find yourself in comfort you find yourself complacent .

Thats why on this christian journey it is not meant for it to be comfortable.

But what we should realize is on this christian journey we will find ourselves in uncomfortable situations.

Yes uncomfortable situations may not always feel good but according to Romans 8:28

Even though it might not feel good, God is going to work it together for our Good.

So we must realize the place of comfort is not where we want to be but we must remain in a place of uncomfortableness.

Okay Let me give you some examples

Jesus was always reaching those who necessarily were not like him.

Jesus understood if he would’ve got to place of comfort he would not have came and fulfilled his assignment, because there was almost a time where Jesus Got Complacent while praying in the Garden of Gethsemane he got himself together and said Nevertheless Not Mine will but yours be done.

When you live in a state of uncomfortableness you’ll be able to say to yourself Not my will but yours be done.

We as christians must learn to stay in a place to say not my will but thine be done.

When you want to go off and not do the will of the Lord you have to say Not my will but your will be done.

When they talk about you and scandalize your name and you want to get back at them you got to tell yourself not my will but thine be done.

So we must understand that Being a christian is an uncomfortable place and we see that our prime example of who we should be living for was always in uncomfortable positions.

Jesus always found himself in Uncomfortable Situations.

There was a pharisee man named nicodemus that came to jesus.

Yall know about Nicodemus he came to Jesus in the Night hour to ask Jesus a question and have a discussion with him.

Jesus could’ve just said No i'm Tired i don’t feel like talking.

He Had just got done performing his first miracle at the wedding.

So i can only imagine Jesus Had probably wobbled and electric slide at the reception and on top of that he performed the miracle so Jesus was probably tired.

But he didn’t let that stop him.

I can imagine Jesus in comfort in his Pjs Chilling but he still understood his task.

He Stayed in an uncomfortable position despite being comfortable.

He told Nicodemus how one can see the kingdom of Heaven.

He told him you must be born again.

He told him that you must believe that God Sent his Son so that everyone might believe in him So they can have Eternal Life.

So We see that Jesus loves uncomfortable positions.

I just stop by to let somebody know today that we cannot get in a comfortable position because there is work for the kingdom to be done.

The saints would sing a song.

Oh Zion whats the matter now

You don’t pray like you use to pray

You don’t sing like you use to sing

You don’t serve like you use to serve.

Oh Zion whats the matter now.

Well I will tell you whats the matter, The saints have gotten to comfortable and complacent when there is still work to be done.

You ought to look at your neighbor and nudge them tell your neighbor don’t get comfortable, The Job is Not Done.

Now we see here Paul.

Is writing the the Philippian church.

In this first chapter this is not the first time he is interacting with the Philippians.

We can see in Acts 16 where paul interacts with the Philippians.

Lydia was one of the women who was there.

Lydia was a seller of purple.

She was the first convert.

Paul spoke and “the Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul:.

After her conversion, Lydia offered them a place to stay while they were in Philippi.

Paul and his team continued to go to prayer.

As they went, there was a woman with a spirit of divination who followed them crying out, “These men are the servants of the most high God which show us the way of salvation”.

She did this for many days.

Paul being grieved by this commanded the spirit to come out of her in the name of Christ Jesus.

Her bosses were not happy with this because she was no longer profitable to them.

They caught Paul and Silas in the marketplace and brought them before the rulers saying these men are troublemakers.

The rulers had them beaten and thrown in jail.

Even in jail, this did not stop the work.

If you can’t get to the prayer meeting, have the prayer meeting where you are.

Paul and Silas began to pray and sing praises to God n the prison.

And suddenly there was an earthquake, the foundation of the prison was shaken and all the doors were open.

When the jailer woke up and saw what happened, he thought the prisoners had escaped and was going to kill himself, but Paul announced they were all present.

The jailer then wanter to know how he could be saved.

Paul told him, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Paul and his team answered the call, showed up and worked.

They were working to spread the gospel throughout Philippi.

Now we see Paul is writing to the Philippians.

Here in the first chapter and 6 verse, Paul is in a prayer thanks.

He is thanking God for allowing him to have a church like the Philippians.

Paul says that every time he prays for the Philippians he does so with joy, and he is joyful because they have shared in the gospel.

Paul went to Philippi and shared the gospel and the kept the work going.

But it was something that stuck out to me when paul said in Philippians 1:6

Lets look at this verse it Says And I am Certain, and i am for sure, And if it is one thing that i am positive of, and i have no doubt, and i am not in question that God who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

This scripture tells me and this brings me to my first point on why the job is not done is because God is Committed to Transforming you.

God is committed to transforming us.

But we as believers must be willing to be transformed.

God is always willing and wanting to transform us but we as believers get comfortable where we are at and don’t want to be transformed.

The bible says here that God who has started a Good work in you will continue to work until the day when jesus returns.

This tells me that Jesus is committed to continuing to work on our behalf.

We learn here that when Jesus Starts something he is going to finish it.

We often times start something with a zeal and a fire but it will fade out over time.

But that is not God when he is committed to something his Fire is never going out.

Thats why i know he is committed to transforming us because of what he did for us.

God sent his only son, sacrificed his only son to die on me and your behalf.

Thats when the work started when he sent his son to die for our sins and not only that he is still working and committed to transforming us to this day.

If that’s not commitment I don’t know what is.

So just like Jesus has that Fire and is committed to us we should be committed to him to grow spiritually and not be complacent.

There is still work to do God is still working on Our behalf So our Job is not Done.

We must seek after the face of Jesus and keep striving to be like him and strive each and every day to be better christians.

It is important that we do this because of the promises that God has given us.

This is why i am going to keep on working because of his promises, This is why i’m going to strive to be more like christ and let him transform me because of his promises.

Well what did he promises well he promise me That i will be the Head and not the tail.

He promised me that he will never give up on me

He promised me that i will be the lender and not borrower

He promise to lead and guide me