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TITLE: How Not
to Quit
TEXT: Titus 1:10-16
PROPOSITION: There are many reasons not to quit serving God.
QUESTION: Why?
KEY WORD: Reasons
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
- Worn out, stressed out, tired, cant go on, ready to
throw in the towel?
- So was Titus false teachers, gossip, insubordinate
You cant work with these people! Just quit.
- Jeremiah 20:9 Jeremiah was ready to quit, sit by the
road, stop being Gods prophet
- Mothers, fathers, spouses, students, workers, and
Christians all who are ready to quit THIS SERMON IS FOR YOU!
HERE ARE SOME REASONS NOT TO QUIT:
- God punishes those He loves
Hebrews 12:6 whom the Lord loves, he chastens
- I will regret it in a few days
I will be acting on impulse, instability, insincerity
Right of rescission change your mind
- I will disappoint other people
Others have confidence in me at church
My family, friends, and co-workers
God will be disappointed
- I will be ungrateful to Christ
After what Christ went through for me
Salvation, preparing a place for me in heaven
All the material blessings
- I will be ungrateful to all who got me this far
Encouragement, support, family
Friends, teachers, employers
All who trusted me, helped me along the way, had patience to train and help
- I might lead others to quit
My influence, others looking to me
- I will miss the blessings of heaven
Name blotted out, lose my reward
Later end is worse than first 2 Peter 2:20
- I will not like the feeling of separation from God
Prayer life hindered
Feeling that God has left me alone, dangling
- If I quit, I will be tempted into deeper sins
Farther from God
Harder to return
- I will be rejecting Jesus
Jesus is with me when I am discouraged
If I quit, I will be rejecting Jesus
Conclusion:
- Dont quit There are more reasons to keep on keeping
on, than to quit
- God, Jesus, this church, your family, friends and many
others need you to keep going.
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