I Will Not Relent

Introduction:

Share thoughts from a funeral you have overseen…

• If God delays the coming of Jesus we will all go by the way of the grave - What then?

I. All of us will leave some kind of mark when we leave this world.

A. What kind of mark will you leave?

1. Only one life twill soon be past. - We get just one go-around!

B. Only what’s done for Christ will last.

1. Focus on what matters! (The message of Calvary)

2. You can leave money and that will eventually get spent or replaced.

3. You can leave a beautiful home and it will eventually fall down.

4. You can leave a very expensive car that speaks of your social place in society but it will eventually end up in the junk-yard!

• Your Legacy, (Your belief System) is the only thing that you can leave that will stand the test of time until Jesus comes!

II. Now, more than ever… I Will Not Relent!

A. I’ll keep praying and fasting

1. 2 Chronicles 7:14-15

2. Mark 9:23-29 (Jesus delivers a young man with a deaf and dumb spirit)

B. I’ll stay in the Word and work it

C. I’ll keep believing for Revival

III. This is War - It’s time to take a stand and be silent no more for Christ.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

A. The days of pathological Christianity are over. (No more “quietly serving Him)

B. It’s war for our identity as a nation and as a Christian

C. It’s war to defeat the enemy of our soul

2 Corinthians 10:3-6

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

D. It’s war for our families

1. We need to do more than just “pray” for our families. We need to go to spiritual war for them.

2. Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Closing: A Call to be completely sold out to Christ

Matthew 16:24-28