WHY WE DON'T GIVE UP (4)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

0. Introduction

a) Perseverance, persistence, the prize! The Christian life was never promised as an easy way to live; instead, Paul constantly reminds us that we must have a purpose and a plan because times will be difficult and Satan will attack. But we never persevere without the promise of a prize - a promise God will keep.

1. Text reference: Philippians 3:12-14

i) ¹² Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. ¹³ Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, ¹⁴ I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:12-14 NKJV)

2. The Purpose

a) Press on toward the day when you will be all God wants you to be.

3. The Plan

a) Forget the past, strain toward what is ahead.

4. The Prize

a) The prize for which God calls us heavenward.

The End ...