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Please open your Bible to: Luke 9:57-62. “Giving it a try” will NOT GET THE JOB DONE!. We Must Actually DO WHAT WE SAY WE WILL DO!.
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“Giving it a try” will NOT GET THE JOB DONE! We Must Actually DO WHAT WE SAY WE WILL DO!
1 Timothy 6:12-14“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ's appearing,”
2 Timothy 1:6-7“Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
“Giving It A Try” Leaves The Back Door Open to Exceptions & Excuses • Luke 9:62 • Exodus 3:13; 4:1,10,11
Commitment Simply Says, “THIS IS THE WAY IT’S GOING TO BE!” Luke 13:24 Philippians 1:27 1 Samuel 17:32-37
What it Comes Down To is Whether we Trust The Lord Enough to Obey Him John 2:23-25James 4:13-162 Corinthians 9:1-5,8
Commitment Involved in Discipleship One Reason it Would be Worse to Turn Back than Never To Have Obeyed! • 2 Peter 2:21,22
We Need to “Purpose” What we Are Going to do in The Lord’s Work • 2 Corinthians 9:7,8
Cannot Be Gotten Over in Small Jumps! We Either Get Over in One Great Leap Or NOT AT ALL!
“Just Do It!” “Resolve & Purpose”1 Peter 4:19