There Is A Fantastic Finish In Your Future

Subject: “There is a Fantastic Finish in Your Future”

As a Child of God, you are a work in progress, you will finish well! You will experience a fantastic finish, because God, our master builder will finish what He has started In you. You can be confident of it!

Text: Philippians 1:6 “Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

Introduction: Believers today seem to be caught in a rat race for happiness. But the sad thing is, happiness is elusive because it depends upon our circumstances, and what happens to us. We never think about it, but what happens when our toys will rust, loved ones will die, health will deteriorate, money is stolen, and the party is over? Often happiness flees and despair sets in.

Paul in the book of Philippians lifts up the idea of Joy instead of happiness. For joy runs much deeper and stronger, it flows from the quiet confidence of a genuine relationship with God and his Son Jesus the Christ. We are encouraged to rejoice in the Lord always and again to rejoice. Paul is not writing the letter from a place of comfort and easy. He is presently in a Rome jail facing an uncertain future. Somehow he had learned, whatever the circumstance, to be content. He found real joy in focusing all his attention on Christ and fulfilling his heavenly calling.

The letter is really a thank note to the church at Philippi for the wonderful gift he received from them. Paul’s design and purpose is to strengthen and encourage the church to keep on keeping on. One of the main problems today in the church seems to frustration and anxiety. People struggle to find peace and contentment with others, with the church, and even with themselves. We seem to forget that we are all “A work in progress.” But you can rest assured THAT GOD IS GOING TO FINISH WHAT HE HAS STARTED IN YOU. And the truth is, His good work in you may have just begun. I know that this truth applies to my life, God is not through with me yet! In fact, sometimes I get the feeling, He is just getting started.

I want to try and show you, convince you through God’s Word, and Encourage You to See Yourself through God’s Eyes, To See How Much God Values You. We struggle to find peace and contentment because we down on ourselves and are sometimes disappointed with ourselves. But the entrance of the Word gives light and understanding to the simple. This passage has encouraged my heart, and I trust it will encourage you. When we take it to heart, and really listen to What God says about us in His Word, we will be overwhelmed by His Love, and we will begin to see ourselves in His light and we will then be hard pressed to be “down” on ourselves anymore.

I want to share three important things to remember as we run the Christian race: First, remember the great love God has for you and His joy over you. God knows you are a work in progress. So, count on a fantastic finish!

1. Remember God Loves you and Rejoices over you.

Php 1:2 “Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy, 5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;”

There is probably no parable that demonstrates God’s love towards us as the stories related to us in Luke 15. The parables talk about a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost son. The stories describe the Father’s love for you and me. Don’t miss it, let the idea stink in, and think about what it means in your life now. In each case given in the parable, no expense in spared, the woman who lost the coin, lit a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it. And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin.” God spared nothing in His search for you. He gathered the greatest search party that has ever been formed in order to find you. He sent His Son, His Holy Spirit, and His Angels after you. As they searched, He had his people pray for you, you will never fully know how deep, how thorough, and how costly His search was. You do not belong to Him today because of chance, or accident, or a stroke of fate. You are His because He never gave up His search until He found You.