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Finishing What You Start
Sermon Notes-"Do Hard Things: Finishing What You Start"
May 24, 2015
Sermon Series: Do Hard Things I Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:8-115
KLC 2015 Theme: Seeking His Kingdom
"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."
Matthew 6:33 (NKJV)
Lesson Text
1 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, 2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 3 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, 4 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints 5 and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. 6 Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. 7 But as you excel in everything in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you see that you excel in this act of grace also.
2 Corinthians 8:1-7 (ESV)
Lessons to help you finish what you start for God:
1.) Have someone in your life that will REMIND you of the MOTIVATION you had for starting the activity.
17 Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision." 18 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
Nehemiah 2:17-18 (ESV)
6 So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
Nehemiah 4:6 (ESV)
2.) Reject ALL OR NOTHING thinking.
13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV)
3.) Don't ASSUME you'll be able to FINISH the activity at a LATER time.
12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12 (ESV)
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"- 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
James 4:13-14 (ESV)
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By Sermon Notes-"Do Hard Things: Finishing What You Start"
May 24, 2015
Sermon Series: Do Hard Things I Scripture: 2 Corinthians 8:8-115
KLC 2015 Theme: Seeking His Kingdom
"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."
Matthew 6:33 (NKJV)
Lesson Text
1 We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, 2 for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. 3 For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, 4 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints 5 and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. 6 Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. 7 But as you excel in everything in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you see that you excel in this act of grace also.
2 Corinthians 8:1-7 (ESV)
Lessons to help you finish what you start for God:
1.) Have someone in your life that will REMIND you of the MOTIVATION you had for starting the activity.
17 Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision." 18 And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, "Let us rise up and build." So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
Nehemiah 2:17-18 (ESV)
6 So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
Nehemiah 4:6 (ESV)
2.) Reject ALL OR NOTHING thinking.
13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14 (ESV)
3.) Don't ASSUME you'll be able to FINISH the activity at a LATER time.
12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12 (ESV)
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"- 14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
James 4:13-14 (ESV)